IT and decision making

Computer technology can be used by businesses to make many day-to-day decisions

• True

• Flase

Information systems can collect inputs from a number of sources, organise the data and distribute the data to make the most efficient decisions

• True

• Flase

EPOS is

• electronic point of stock

• electronic place of stock

• ecommerce point of sale

• electronic point of sale

IT systems in an ice-cream factory can monitor sales in supermarkets through EPOS systems, take in forecast future sales and weather data, and use this to determine levels of production, rota staff shifts and arrange delivery schedules

• True

• False

What provide managers with information to make tactical and strategic decisions

• MIS Management Information Systems

• MIS Management Intervention Systems

• MIT Management Information Tuning

• MIB Management Information Benefits

Decision making models including decision trees and critical path analysis can be carried out by computer models which saves time and helps accuracy

• true

• false

Expert systems and artificial intelligence allow computers to imitate human thinking which considers reasoning to give evidence based conclusions

• True

• False

The internet is almost entirely staffed by graduates from Cambridge University

• True

• False

Biscuits allow retail websites to present choices that are likely to meet a browser's needs

• True

• False

Data base marketing is based on data mining, searching through patterns in gathered customer information and using these buying behaviours to create directed advertising - all automatic

• True

• False