BSIS 496W Exam #1 Questions with correct answers
a human activity whereas collaboration technology is the hardware, software, and
applications that enable the work of collaboration - ✔✔Collaborating
Collaboration must occur within a firm's boundaries, - ✔✔False
Developing an improved information-processing capability, including accurate and
visible information, manipulability, exchangeability, and ease of information
transfer is a primary goal for all IT functions in supporting collaboration. -
✔✔information and management
specifically describes the roles and responsibilities associated with data
management and distinguishes between business and technical responsibilities. -
✔✔Stewardship
Identify the two main challenges with respect to fitting a data strategy in an
organization? - ✔✔Organizational structure & Data Ecosystem
Delivering the right information to the right person at the right time requires a
plan of what an organization wants to accomplish with data and how it proposes
to derive business value from it. This can also be called the organization's -
✔✔Data Strategy
enable the organization to develop enterprise-wide solutions, better integrate
evolving new technologies, implement partnerships, and create innovative
solutions. - ✔✔Standards
,Among challenges of managing new types of data are - ✔✔all of the above
A company that wants to improve its ___________ works on ensuring that data
consistently means the same thing everywhere in the organization. - ✔✔data
integrity
Improving communication between the creators and users of the data, and
developing data quality metrics to monitor improvements is an example of
improving - ✔✔Data Quality
One of the perennial problems of strategy for organizations has been: - ✔✔poor
alignment between business and it strategies
can ensure that business and IT strategies work well together - ✔✔Strategic
Alignment
need to take responsibility and leadership in technology investment and
implementation. - ✔✔Business executives
A business model explains: - ✔✔how different pieces of the business fit together
Most formal IT plans could not support enterprise strategy because they were too
focused on: - ✔✔Tactical
One of the most important distinguishing factors between companies that get
high business value from their IT investment and those that don't is that: -
, ✔✔senior managers in high performing companies take a leadership rile in IT
decision-making
What is the best way to develop new capabilities? - ✔✔co-evolve business and IT
strategies
a sign of effective strategizing is - ✔✔continuous and dynamic synchronization of
capabilities
The use of information-processing capabilities to drive down transaction costs to
near zero, threatening traditional value propositions and shaving profit margins is
an example of? - ✔✔competing on efficiencies
help organizations streamline their processes and save substantial amounts of
money by eliminating unnecessary or duplicate activities or empowering
customers/suppliers to self-manage transactions with a company - ✔✔Business
Improvement
projects that extend or transform how a company does business - ✔✔Business
enabling
small-scale, experimental initiatives designed to test the viability of new concepts
or technologies - ✔✔Business opportunities
operationalizes, scales up, or leverages successful strategic experiments or
prototypes - ✔✔opportunity leverage
a human activity whereas collaboration technology is the hardware, software, and
applications that enable the work of collaboration - ✔✔Collaborating
Collaboration must occur within a firm's boundaries, - ✔✔False
Developing an improved information-processing capability, including accurate and
visible information, manipulability, exchangeability, and ease of information
transfer is a primary goal for all IT functions in supporting collaboration. -
✔✔information and management
specifically describes the roles and responsibilities associated with data
management and distinguishes between business and technical responsibilities. -
✔✔Stewardship
Identify the two main challenges with respect to fitting a data strategy in an
organization? - ✔✔Organizational structure & Data Ecosystem
Delivering the right information to the right person at the right time requires a
plan of what an organization wants to accomplish with data and how it proposes
to derive business value from it. This can also be called the organization's -
✔✔Data Strategy
enable the organization to develop enterprise-wide solutions, better integrate
evolving new technologies, implement partnerships, and create innovative
solutions. - ✔✔Standards
,Among challenges of managing new types of data are - ✔✔all of the above
A company that wants to improve its ___________ works on ensuring that data
consistently means the same thing everywhere in the organization. - ✔✔data
integrity
Improving communication between the creators and users of the data, and
developing data quality metrics to monitor improvements is an example of
improving - ✔✔Data Quality
One of the perennial problems of strategy for organizations has been: - ✔✔poor
alignment between business and it strategies
can ensure that business and IT strategies work well together - ✔✔Strategic
Alignment
need to take responsibility and leadership in technology investment and
implementation. - ✔✔Business executives
A business model explains: - ✔✔how different pieces of the business fit together
Most formal IT plans could not support enterprise strategy because they were too
focused on: - ✔✔Tactical
One of the most important distinguishing factors between companies that get
high business value from their IT investment and those that don't is that: -
, ✔✔senior managers in high performing companies take a leadership rile in IT
decision-making
What is the best way to develop new capabilities? - ✔✔co-evolve business and IT
strategies
a sign of effective strategizing is - ✔✔continuous and dynamic synchronization of
capabilities
The use of information-processing capabilities to drive down transaction costs to
near zero, threatening traditional value propositions and shaving profit margins is
an example of? - ✔✔competing on efficiencies
help organizations streamline their processes and save substantial amounts of
money by eliminating unnecessary or duplicate activities or empowering
customers/suppliers to self-manage transactions with a company - ✔✔Business
Improvement
projects that extend or transform how a company does business - ✔✔Business
enabling
small-scale, experimental initiatives designed to test the viability of new concepts
or technologies - ✔✔Business opportunities
operationalizes, scales up, or leverages successful strategic experiments or
prototypes - ✔✔opportunity leverage
