Information Technology
Tools
Coordination and Efficiency
Strategic Value
Control
100

This field involves the use of computers, software, and systems to store, process, and share information, transforming how organizations operate and make decisions.

Information Technology

100

Used at the department level, traditionally monitoring employee activities

Behavioral Control

100

A private, company wide information system that uses the communications protocols

Intranet

100

This term refers to using social media technologies for communication and collaboration among employees, customers, and stakeholders

Social Business

100

a characteristic of hierarchical control?

Detailed rules and procedures

200

This IT application involves analyzing large datasets to uncover hidden patterns and make better business decisions.

Big Data

200

Focusing on the results rather than the process

Outcome Control

200

They connect different parts of the larger network

Brokers

200

This delivery company uses Big Data to predict, with 65-95% accuracy, which customers are likely to switch to competitors. 

FedEx

200

This term refers to an organizational approach that emphasizes shared values, self-control, and adaptive culture to unite individual, team, and organizational goals for overall control.

Decentralized Control

300

Enterprise Rent-A-Car utilized this type of IT system to collect data on daily transactions and improve process management.

Transaction Processing Systems

300

Managers use this to see the cause-effect relationship among critical success factors

Strategy Maps

300

It is the sum of its knowledge, experience, understanding, relationships, processes, innovations, and discoveries

Intellectual Capital

300

This company found that computer-based data analysis outperformed editorial staff in generating personal book recommendations.

Amazon

300

This term refers to an organizational approach that relies on detailed rules, formal control systems, and a rigid hierarchy to monitor and direct employee behavior.

Hierarchical Control

400

These tools enable organizations to analyze accumulated data and uncover insights for better strategic decision-making.

Business Intelligence

400

An innovation that provides managers a balanced view of the organization by integrating traditional financial instruments and statistical reports from markets, customers and employees

Balanced Scorecard

400

Formal, systematic knowledge that can be articulated, written down, and passed on to others in documents, rules, or general instructions

Codified Knowledge

400

This Big Data structure centralizes all analytics experts in one department, ensuring critical mass but may leave other applications unnoticed.

Centralized Design

400

What is the consequence of hierarchical control on employees?

Indifference toward work

500

Early IT systems focused on this primary goal, automating routine tasks to save time and reduce errors.

Efficiency

500

Who commonly uses strategy maps?

Top Management

500

The sum of its knowledge, experience, understanding, relationships, processes, innovations, and discoveries

Knowledge Management

500

This hybrid Big Data structure places a small number of data scientists in a center of excellence led by a CDO, while others remain in functional departments.

Balanced Design

500

What is the first step in the cycle of the Feedback Control Model?

Setting strategic goals for departments or the organization