WorksheetsInformation Systems and Management Concepts
Total questions: 59
Worksheet time: 30mins
Carries out the programs and plans of senior management.
Middle management
Top management
Operational staff
Board of directors
Broader understanding of information systems, which encompasses an understanding of the management and organizational dimensions of systems as well as the technical dimensions of systems. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Information systems literacy
Computer literacy
Data processing
Technical proficiency
Deals with behavioral issues as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in the firm.
Management information systems (MIS)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Can be defined technically as a set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieve), process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Information system
Database
Network
Operating system
Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Is a senior manager who oversees the use of information technology in the firm.
Chief information officer (CIO)
Chief financial officer (CFO)
Chief marketing officer (CMO)
Chief operating officer (COO)
Captures or collects raw data from within the organization or from its external environment. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Input
Output
Processing
Storage
Study information systems with an interest in how human decision makers perceive and use formal information. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
The psychologists
The engineers
The mathematicians
The programmers
Focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Computer literacy
Digital marketing
Graphic design
Network engineering
Provide information to coordinate all of the business processes that deal with customers in sales, marketing, and service to optimize revenue, customer satisfaction, and customer retention. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Customer relationship management (CRM) systems
Supply chain management (SCM) systems
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Human resource management (HRM) systems
Are accomplished through digital networks spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organizations. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Core business processes
Peripheral activities
Support functions
External transactions
Is in charge of information systems security for the firm and is responsible for enforcing the firm’s information security policy. (Fill in the blank with the correct term)
Core business processes
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Network administrator
Database manager
Publish and rapidly access knowledge; discuss opinions and experiences. Fill in the blank: ____________
Chief security officer (cso)
Blog
Forum
Wiki
People interacting and working together can capture expert knowledge and solve problems more rapidly than the same number of people working in isolation from one another. There will be fewer errors. Fill in the blank: ____________
Blogs and wikis
Spreadsheets and charts
Emails and memos
Calendars and reminders
Makes it possible for employees to share their documents and collaborate on projects using office documents as the foundation. Fill in the blank: ____________
Innovation
Spreadsheet
Firewall
Encryption
Is the physical equipment used for input, processing, and output activities in an information system. Fill in the blank: ____________
Microsoft sharepoint and ibm notes
Software
Hardware
Database
Is a browser-based collaboration and document management platform, combined with a powerful search engine that is installed on corporate servers. Fill in the blank: ____________
Computer hardware
SharePoint
Google Drive
Dropbox
Is a service provided by the internet that uses universally accepted standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information in a page format on the internet. Fill in the blank: ____________
Sharepoint software
FTP service
Email client
Database server
Consists of the software governing the organization of data on physical storage media. Fill in the blank: ____________
World wide web
File system
Database management system
Operating system
Are a supportive business culture that values efficiency and effectiveness, an appropriate business model, efficient business processes, decentralization of authority, highly distributed decision rights, and a strong information system (is) development team. Fill in the blank: ____________
Data management technology
Financial reporting standards
Customer relationship management
Market segmentation strategy
Is working with others to achieve shared and explicit goals. Fill in the blank: ____________
Organizational and management
Individual achievement
Personal reflection
Solo performance
Is responsible for ensuring that the company complies with existing data privacy laws. Fill in the blank: ____________
Collaboration
Marketing
Human Resources
Finance
Focuses on mathematical techniques for optimizing selected parameters of organizations, such as transportation, inventory control, and transaction costs. Fill in the blank: ____________
Chief information officer (cio)
Operations research
Human resources manager
Financial analyst
Are those to require to derive value from a primary investment. (Fill in the blank)
Complementary assets
Fixed costs
Sunk costs
Variable assets
Refers to business being conducted continuously, 24/7, rather than in narrow “work day” time bands of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Fill in the blank)
Time shifting
Batch processing
Telecommuting
Job sharing
Emphasizes the development of models for decision-making and management practices. (Fill in the blank)
Management science
Behavioral science
Classical management
Human relations
Links two or more computers to share data or resources, such as a printer. (Fill in the blank)
Network
Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Present graphs and data from many sources through an interface that is easy for senior managers to use. (Fill in the blank)
Digital dashboard
Spreadsheet
Word processor
Presentation software
Data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. (Fill in the blank)
Information
Data
Noise
Signal
Are strong senior management support for change, incentive systems that monitor and reward individual innovation, an emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, training programs, and a management culture that values flexibility and knowledge.
Important managerial complementary assets
Basic accounting principles
Standard operating procedures
Routine maintenance tasks
Are tasks performed by business organizations, consist of sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, and human resources. (Fill in the blank)
The major business functions
The minor business functions
The external business functions
The temporary business functions
Are managed through digital means. In a digital firm, any piece of information required to support key business decisions is available at any time and anywhere in the firm. (Fill in the blank)
Core business processes
Peripheral devices
External stakeholders
Physical assets
People working collaboratively can communicate errors and corrective actions faster than if they work in isolation. Collaborative and social technologies help reduce time delays in design and production. (Fill in the blank)
Productivity
Complexity
Redundancy
Isolation
People working collaboratively can come up with more innovative ideas for products, services, and administration than the same number working in isolation from one another. Advantages to diversity and the “wisdom of crowds”. (Fill in the blank)
Innovation
Competition
Routine
Isolation
Providing the connectivity to link different systems and networks within the firm. (Fill in the blank)
Network
Database
Processor
Application
Fill in the blank: Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the organization are called _________.
Extranets
Internets
LANs
VPNs
Fill in the blank: To make sense out of the many situations faced by organizations, make decisions, and formulate action plans to solve organizational problems is the role of _________
Management's job
Employee's task
Customer's responsibility
Shareholder's duty
Fill in the blank: Consists of all the hardware and software that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives is called _________.
Information technology (IT)
Human resources (HR)
Financial management (FM)
Marketing strategy (MS)
Fill in the blank: Is responsible for enterprise-wide governance and utilization of information to maximize the value the organization can realize from its data is the role of _________
The chief data officer (CDO)
The chief financial officer (CFO)
The chief marketing officer (CMO)
The chief technology officer (CTO)
Fill in the blank: Describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth is called _________
Business model
Revenue stream
Market share
Value proposition
Fill in the blank: Is responsible for the firm’s knowledge management program. The CKO helps design programs and systems to find new sources of knowledge or to make better use of existing knowledge in organizational and management processes is the role of _________?
The chief knowledge officer (CKO)
The chief financial officer (CFO)
The chief operating officer (COO)
The chief marketing officer (CMO)
Fill in the blank: Makes long-range strategic decisions about products and services as well as ensures financial performance of the firm is the role of _________
Senior management
Middle management
Operational management
Technical staff
Fill in the blank: It is a set of assumptions, values, and ways of doing things, that has been accepted by most of its members is called _________?
Culture
Tradition
Law
Custom
Fill in the blank: Is when the firms support their technology investments with investment in complementary assets, such as new business models, new business processes, management behavior, organizational culture, or training, receive superior returns is called _________
Key organizational complementary investments
Technological synergy
Market-driven innovation
Operational leverage
Fill in the blank: Is the part of e-business that deals with the buying and selling of goods and services over the internet is called _________?
Electronic commerce, or e-commerce
Digital marketing
Online banking
Cloud computing
Fill in the blank: Is a contemporary term for data and software tools for organizing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help managers and other enterprise users make more informed decisions is called _________?
Business intelligence
Data mining
Cloud computing
Enterprise resource planning
People working together using collaboration and social tools can solve customer complaints and issues faster and more effectively than if they were working in isolation from one another. Fill in the blank: __________
Customer service
Inventory management
Product design
Financial auditing
Is one in which nearly all of the organization’s significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated. Fill in the blank: __________
Digital firm
Traditional firm
Manual firm
Analog firm
Leaders of teams of programmers and analysts, project managers, physical facility managers, telecommunications managers, or database specialists. Fill in the blank: __________
Information systems managers
Network administrators
Software engineers
Technical writers
Is when optimal organizational performance is achieved by jointly optimizing both the social and technical systems used in production. Fill in the blank: __________
The sociotechnical view of systems
The classical management approach
The contingency theory
The bureaucratic model
Means that work takes place in a global workshop as well as within national boundaries. Work is accomplished physically wherever in the world it is best accomplished. Fill in the blank: __________
Space shifting
Time sharing
Resource pooling
Virtual teaming
Is a computerized system that performs and records the daily routine transactions necessary to conduct business, such as sales order entry, hotel reservations, payroll, employee record keeping, and shipping. Fill in the blank: __________
Transaction processing systems (TPS)
Management information systems (MIS)
Decision support systems (DSS)
Executive information systems (EIS)
Consists of the detailed, preprogrammed instructions that control and coordinate the computer hardware components in an information system. Fill in the blank: __________
Computer software
Computer hardware
Database
Network
Study information systems with an eye toward how groups and organizations shape the development of systems and also how systems affect individuals, groups, and organizations. Fill in the blank: __________
The sociologists
The engineers
The programmers
The economists
Converts this raw input into a meaningful form. Fill in the blank: __________
Processing
Storing
Transmitting
Deleting
Consists of both physical devices and software, links the various pieces of hardware and transfers data from one physical location to another. Fill in the blank: __________
Networking and telecommunications technology
Database management system
Operating system
Application software
Is responsible for monitoring the daily activities of the business. Fill in the blank: __________
Operational management
Strategic planning
Financial auditing
Human resources
Is the formal organizational unit responsible for information technology services. Fill in the blank: __________
Operational management
Human Resources
Finance Department
Marketing Team
Refer to the set of logically related tasks and behaviors that organizations develop over time to produce specific business results and the unique manner in which these activities are organized and coordinated. Fill in the blank: These are called _______.
Business processes
Organizational charts
Corporate strategies
Management hierarchies
