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Chapter 1
Plug IT In 1
Chapter 2
Plug IT In 5
Grab Bag
100
This term refers to the personal, movable network that allows you to retrieve & share information anywhere at any time
What is ubiquitous computing?
100
An ongoing collection of related activities that create a product or service of value to the organization, its business partners, and/or its customers
What is a business process?
100
This term refers to an advantage over rivals in some measure such as cost, quality, or speed, and can lead to control of a market or increased profits
What is competitive advantage?
100
A directed effort to plan, organize, and manage resources to bring about the successful achievement of specific IS goals
What is IS project management?
100
Name one of the examples of functional areas depicted on the pyramid diagram regarding types of information systems
What is (1) sales & marketing, (2) manufacturing, (3) finance, (4) accounting, or (5) human resources?
200
An information system that uses computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
What is a computer-based information system (CBIS)?
200
A strategy for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization’s business processes
What is business process re-engineering (BPR)?
200
This lets you use a large number of people work on a project, often online – Innocentive was an example
What is crowdsourcing?
200
You will want to avoid this, which involves uncontrolled changes in a project’s scope as users request added features or functionality
What is scope creep?
200
These electronic and usually visual means of support provide fast access to information for decision-making
What are dashboards/digital dashboards?
300
The individuals who use hardware, software, and follow procedures to get results
Who are users?
300
A management technique that includes methods and tools to support the design, analysis, implementation, management, and optimization of business processes
What is business process management (BPM)?
300
This happens when new and improved technologies rapidly create or support substitutes for products, alternative service options, and superb quality
What is obsolescence?
300
The triple constraints of project management
What are (1) time, (2) cost, and (3) scope?
300
As we discussed in the video with the pyramid diagram, this type of system serves to connect all other systems in an organization
What is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system?
400
We reviewed several videos about these machines that highlight the importance of information systems to society – examples included use by the military, businesses, and medicine
What are robots?
400
These systems are used to create documents, schedule, and communicate
What are office automation systems (OAS)?
400
Porter identified these activities in his value chain model
What are (1) primary activities, (2) support activities, and (3) value system?
400
The five phases of project management
What are (1) project initiation, (2) project planning, (3) project execution, (4) project monitoring & control, and (5) project completion?
400
This product was used in the video to describe the steps in the procurement process
What are Post-It Notes?
500
A collection of application programs in a single department, illustrated at the bottom of the pyramid in the Chapter 1 video
What are functional area information systems (FAIS)?
500
An example of how IT impacts employees at work
What is ___? (acceptable: loss of identity, health, safety, job stress, ergonomics, assistive/adaptive technologies)
500
Porter identified these five competitive forces in his model
What are (1) threat of new market entrants, (2) bargaining power of suppliers, (3) bargaining power of customers/buyers, (4) threat of substitute products or services, and (5) rivalry among existing firms in the industry?
500
A collection of processes and knowledge areas generally accepted as best practice within the project management discipline; consists of 5 basic groups and 9 knowledge areas
What is the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)?
500
This term describes a wide gap between those who have access to IT and those who do not
What is the digital divide?