Crowdly

businesses

using social networking platforms to deepen interactions with employees,

customers, and suppliers,

growing

numbers of employees using mobile devices to connect with their firm, customers,

and suppliers.

business process. What might be a business process used at a hospital?

Define

A business process is the computation of programmed functions in an information system.

A business process is a set of logically related tasks and behaviors for accomplishing work. Hiring a new employee, customer intake, and filing medical records are examples of business processes at a hospital.

Hospitals have no business processes.

All

of the following are new technology-related trends in the information systems field

except:

Cloud Computing

Big Data

The mobile digital platform

IoT

Co-creation of business value

business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product

or service to create wealth.

True

False

All

of the following describe the effects of globalization

except:

ability

to find low-cost suppliers.

significant

decreases in operating costs.

increases

in transaction costs.

replication

of business models in multiple countries.

reduction

of labor costs through outsourcing.

Which

of the following is

not

one of the six strategic business objectives of

information systems?

Improved

community relations

Improved

decision making

Survival

New

products and services

Competitive

advantage

Which

of the following statements about digital firms is

not true?

Digital

firms offer extraordinary opportunities for flexible global organization and

management.

Today,

most firms are fully digital.

Digital

firms have more flexibility to survive in turbulent times.

digital firms, time shifting and space shifting are the norm.

Digital

firms sense and respond to their environments more rapidly than traditional

firms.

Which

of the following is

not

one of the current changes taking place in

information systems technology?

Increased

usage of data generated by the Internet of Things

Emerging

mobile digital platform

Growing

business use of big data

Growth

in the PC platform

Growth

in cloud computing

make sure they stock clothes that their customers will purchase, a department store

implements a new application that analyzes spending levels at their stores and

cross-references this data to popular clothing styles. Which of the following

business objectives is this information intended to support?

Operational

excellence

Improved

decision making

Customer

intimacy

Survival

New

products and services

firm that must invest in new information systems capabilities in order to

comply with federal legislation is investing to achieve which business

objective?

Operational

excellence

Creation

of new products

Improved

decision making

Customer

intimacy

Survival