Management Information System Final Examination

A vital organizational process of team building, modeling and consensus that analyzes and evaluates an organization’s internal and external environment, forecast new developments, establishes an organizations vision, mission, goals, and objectives, develop strategies, tactics, and policies to implement its goals and articulate it’s plans for the organization to follow.

A simulation exercise that is a microcosm of the real world which allows managers to safely create, experience and evaluate a variety of scenarios of what might be happening or what might happen in the real world.

More specific, measurable elements of a goal.

This involves planning for the accomplishment of new systems development projects, including the proportion of operating budgets and for end users or work groups that do a lot of their own information processing and application development.

• Business System Planning Approach

• Strategic Planning

• Project Planning

• Operational IS Planning

This IS planning methodology believes in the premise that the information requirements of an organization should be determined by a small number of key factors that executives consider critical to the success of the enterprise.

• Scenario Planning

• Planning for a Competitive Advantage

• Critical Success Factors  

• Business System Planning Approach

Which is not a major component of IS Planning?

• Application Portfolio

• Data Resources

• IS Organization

• Technology Platform

Which of these planning terminologies refers to specific statements that direct decision making?

• Goal

• Policies

• Procedure

• Shared Vision

Which of the four major objectives of strategic IS planning focuses on innovation and strategy to achieve business goals?

• Business Alignment

• Technology Architecture

• Competitive Advantage

• Resource Management

Business System Planning Approach believes that an organization’s information system should be planned piece-by-piece from the bottom up to the top.

• True

• False

Which comes third in the major activities involved in developing system solutions?

• Defining the problem or opportunity

• Selecting the best solution

• Implementing and evaluating the success of the solution.

• Developing and evaluating alternative solutions