INFRA(1 course) "IS/IT Governance"

What is the mechanism through which IT governance affects firm performance?

• a. IT governances impacts IT-Business Alignment, and IT-Business Alignment impacts Firm Performance.

• b. IT-Business Alignment influences IT Governance, and IT Governance influences Firm Performance.

• c. IT-Business Alignment influences Firm Performance, and Firm Performance influences IT Governance.

If a company has a well functioning IT steering committee, the company is more likely to achieve IT-Business alignment?

• True

• False

In the replication operating model, firms share data across different business units?

• True

• False

IT governance leads to?

• a. IT and business alignment about the new products to introduce.

• b. IT and business alignment about how business processes should work.

• c. IT and business alignment about which new markets to enter.

• d. All of the above.

IT governance includes choices about?

• a. What key IT decisions need to be made.

• b. Who makes these decisions?

• c. How these decisions are made.

• d. All of the above.

What is a key managerial IT governance decision?

• a. IT Infrastructure strategy

• b. IT Architecture

• c. IT Principle

IT systems often create strategic benefits. Strategic benefits are generally ________.

• a. Tangible.

• b. Intangible.

In which operating model do firms standardize business processes and share data across business units?

• a. Diversification.

• b. Unification.

• c. Coordination.

• d. Replication.

The key strategic implication of the rationalized data / optimized core stage of enterprise IT architecture is?

• a. Local optimization.

• b. Operational efficiency.

• c. Speed to market.

• d. All of the above.

The rationalized data/optimized core stage of the enterprise IT architecture would be appropriate for a firm operating with the replication model?

• True

• False