Why do we need to create an information system vision during the strategic is planning process quizlet?

In class, we have defined Information Systems as socio-technical systems made up of four components. Such components are:

A. Technology, Process, Structure, People
B. Strategy, Culture, Information, Procedure
C. Input, Processing, Output, Feedback
D. Operators, Computers, Information, Feedback
E. Both A and B

A socio-technical system has the following fundamental components:

A. Social Groups, Hardware, Software, and Technical Environment
B. IT, Governance, Environment, and People
C. Process, People, IT, and Structure
D. IT, People, and Process
E. IT, Process, and Social Groups

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How do you alleviate the Black Box of IT spending?

Develop key performance indicators (KPI) in order to track, measure, and publish success metrics

Why should you keep senior management involved when talking about risks?

To help minimize and maintain any problems or risks that come about and set goals that will impact the rest of the organization

What role should an IT leader plan in discussions about innovation?

Support and encouragement from the IT leader to collaborate and encourage innovation with less structure around business units and IT

How do you determine IT budget?

By allocating resources to these categories: day-to-day operations, future projects, capital expenditures, and leaving resources for strategic planning to help increase competitive advantage within our organization

KSF

Key Success Factors

SIEM

Security Information and Event Management

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

SaaS

Software as a Service

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

KWYDK

Know What You Don't Know

Which of the following is (are) not the purpose(s) of strategy information system planning process?

1. Gathering information about the availability of current IS resources

2. Gathering information system about the performance of current IS resources

3. Selecting IS projects to fund as part of the yearly budgeting process

Why do we need to create an information system Vision during the strategic IS planning process?

1. It tells us the opportunity for new strategic directions and initiatives that new technologies make possible

2. It helps us understand the performance of our current IS resources.

3. It defines the role that information systems should play in the organization

4. It provides a set of guidelines that the firm should follow when using and managing IS resources

A long-term proposal that identifies new systems, new projects, or new directions for the IS organization is an example of:

Strategy initiative

The advantages of the IS Planning process are:

1. To enable and support intra-organizational communication

2. To create a shared mental image of team member's role

3. To specify the objective of IS deployment

4. To create a context for decision making

What is the output of the information systems assessment process?

A snapshot of the current "State of IS resources" in the organization

Why is an analysis of added value useful?

It helps managers in making decision of whether they should go ahead with the initiative or not

Which of the following is "the minimum amount of money the suppliers are willing to accept to provide the firm with the needed resources"?

Supplier Opportunity cost

Which of the following statement(s) about strategic information systems is(are) not true?

Strategic information systems critical to business operations but that do not generate added value

Which of the following is "the maximum amount of money the firm's customers are willing to send in order to obtain the firm's product"?

Customer willingness to pay

At what stage in the process of identifying data-driven strategic initiatives should an analysis of the upside potential and data availability occur?

Prioritize initiatives

Considering the role of information systems in value chain analysis requires which of the following?

Assuming that the value chain is comprised of both the movement and processing of material, and the processing of information, which together enable the firm's activities

How can IT resources help to create a sustained competitive advantage?

Because competitors who seek to replicate the initiative must first develop or acquire the needed IT resources

The sustainability of a competitive advantage grounded in an IT-dependent strategic initiative is measured by:

An estimate of the likely time delay competitors will face in replicating the leader's initiative

The risks associated with an IT-enabled initiative are:

Project size, technology experience, and organizational change

Which are the five sub-dimensions of the IT project barrier?

IT complexity, IT uniqueness, IT Visibility, Process Complexity, & Process Change

The two major components of the IT resources barrier are:

IT assets and IT capabilities

According to the class discussion of "IT doesn't matter," IT managers should:

Focus their attention on IT-dependent strategic initiatives rather than IT investments

Is IT an indistinct commodity?

No, because IT ranges from extremely complex technology (e.g., large data warehouses, infrastructure projects), to small applications (e.g., a personal web site)

Response lag is:

A measure of the delay of competitive response to an IT-dependent strategic initiative

Why can IT resources help to create a sustainable competitive advantage?

Developing IT infrastructure generally takes more than five years and the trust and respect between the IS function and business managers take time to be accumulated

The complexity of the technology is:

The extent to which competitors can observe the enabling technology of an IT-dependent strategic initiative

When you have been successful in generating competitive advantage with an IT-dependent strategic initiative what must you, as a manager, do in order to try and maintain such advantage?

Plan to continuously remain ahead of competition by looking to reinvigorate and reinforce the barriers to erosion associated with your initiative

The process by which an organization is able to improve its performance over time by developing its ability to use available resources for maximum effectiveness is known as

Capability development

Total Cost of Ownership is a financial estimate designed to explicitly recognize the:

Full life Cycle costs of IT assets

Which of the following is not one of the categories of risk associated with board of director decisions?

Staffing Risk

Which of the funding methods treats the IS function as a cost center?

Chargeback

Most organizations have two primary types of decisions to make regarding IT during the budgeting process. These are:

Operational Expenses and Capital Expenditures

Which of the risks of outsourcing are associated with contract lengths?

Changing requirements

In which of the following phases should you expect to be most involved as a general or functional manager?

Definition and implementation

Why is the Systems Development Life Cycle methodology typically referred to as "the waterfall model"?

To stress the fact that phases are sequential and iteration (or going back) should be avoided as much as possible

A bank upgrades a computer system at one of its branches. If this works correctly, then the upgraded system will be installed at the other branches. Which migration approach is this most likely related to?

Pilot

Software that "re-architects" existing programs so that an intermediate layer, termed middleware, is developed between the applications and the databases:

Enterprise Application Integration

What is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart?

Compared to a data warehouse, a data mart is smaller and easier to build

What is data mining?

The process of automatically discovering non-obvious relationships in large analytical databases

Which of the following is an example of an internal threat?

Angry Employees

Which of the following refers to code built into a program to allow the programmer a way to bypass password protection?

Backdoors

Which of the following is not a form of malware?

Sniffers

What is the most important asset of the business?

People

The basic skills necessary to develop strong non-routine cognitive skills include all of the following except:

Computer programming skills

Which of the following is(are) not the purpose(s) of strategic information system planning process?

Gathering information and performance about the availability of current IS resources and selecting IS projects to fund as part of the yearly budgeting process

Enterprise systems are built around which concept?

Integration

Which of the following information is not conveyed in a business model?

How the firm intends to monetize its value proposition

Total cost of ownership is a financial estimate designed to explicitly recognize?

Full life cycle costs of IT assets

Which of the following can be one of the results of poor budgeting?

Lack of direction

Who should prioritize IS projects?

Customers and IS professionals

There are three main methods used by modern organizations to fund IS. These include:

Chargeback, Allocation, and Overhead

The five domains of IT governance are:

Project size, technology experience, and organizational change

Is IT an indistinct commodity?

No, because IT ranges from extremely complex technology (e.g., large data warehouses, infrastructure projects), to small applications (e.g., a personal web site)

The process by which an organization is able to improve its performance over time by developing its ability to use available resources for maximum effectiveness is known as:

Capability development

The sustainability of a competitive advantage grounded in an IT-dependent strategic initiative is measured by:

An estimate of the likely time delay competitors will face in replicating the leader's initiative

Which of the following is not the purpose of a:

Selecting the IT/IS Budget

Which of the following is not an advantage offered by the information system planning process?

The information systems plan is an informal contract that specifies the objective of information systems deployment and the responsibilities of the parties involved

Why do we need to create an Information System Vision during the strategic IS planning process?

It defines the role that information systems should play in the organization

The advantages of the IS planning process are:

To create a context for decision making, enable and support intra-organizational communication, create a shared mental image of team members role, specify the objective of IS department

Why is the Systems development Life Cycle methodology typically referred to as "the waterfall model"?

To stress the fact that phases are sequential and iteration (or going back) should be avoided as much as possible

Which of the following is not one of the advantages related to purchasing an off-the-shelf system?

Unique tailoring

In agile, sprints are:

2-4 weeks

Scrum meetings are for:

project teams to determine daily sprint status

Why is security considered a negative deliverable:

It produces no revenue and does not improve efficiencies

Which of the following is an example of an interference:

Disgruntled employees

Which of the following is very hard to detect:

Viruses

What are the 4 main internal elements of Leavitt's Diamond Model?

1. Structure
2. Technology
3. Process
4. People

Structure - People

Social system

Technology - Process

Technical system

Determine appropriate

roles based on new structure

Determine appropriate

technology for required work

What are the 8 elements in the External Environment?

1. Laws / Regulations
2. Political
3. Standards
4. Economic
5. Socio Cultural
6. Financial
7. Technological
8. Ecological

Why is it important to know Leavitt's Diamond Model?

It's important for MIS students to know the value of the Leavitt Model since we are the ones that communicate between the business units and IT. In order to successfully have a integrated change within the organization, we need to understand how one change will impact the rest of the organization

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Why do we need to create an information system vision during the strategic IS planning process?

Why do we need to create an Information System Vision during the strategic IS planning process? A. It tells us the opportunity for new strategic directions and initiatives that new technologies make possible.

What role do information systems play in strategic planning?

Strategic Information Systems are systems that help organizations alter their business strategies, plans or structure. They are also used to hasten the reaction time of the environmental changes and aid the organization to achieve a competitive advantage over its competitors.

Why do modern organizations build it enabled information systems?

Business firms and other organizations rely on information systems to carry out and manage their operations, interact with their customers and suppliers, and compete in the marketplace. Information systems are used to run interorganizational supply chains and electronic markets.

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6. Why do managers need to consider the context in which the organization is embedded when making an information systems decision? A. A genuine understanding of the people involved, their skills, interests, and motivations is necessary when designing and implementing a new information systems.