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Information Management System Chapter 2 Quiz

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  • Question 1

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Knowledge creating companies:
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Answers: Seek to record the knowledge of critical employees so that in their absence the organization does not operate at a loss
Works to integrate its knowledge into its processes, products and services
Typically invests a large amount of resources into employee training programs
 

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  • Question 2

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Which of the following is a primary business process?
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Procurement of resources
Answers: Collaborative workflow intranet
 

Targeted marketing
Technology development
Procurement of resources
  • Question 3

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Knowledge-creating companies exploit two kinds of knowledge – explicit and tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge deals with:
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“How-tos” knowledge, which resides in workers
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Data, documents, things written down or stored on computers
“How-tos” knowledge, which resides in workers
Ability to use data mining techniques to capture external information
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  • Question 4

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A company implements information systems linked by the Internet and extranets to support strategic business relationships with customers, suppliers and other business partners. This is an example of using information technology to pursue which competitive strategy?
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Alliance
Answers: Cost leadership
Differentiation
Innovation
 

Alliance
  • Question 5

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Typically customers can use the Internet to:
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Answers: Lodge complaints
Make and track purchases
Evaluate products
 

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  • Question 6

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Traditional business improvement includes:
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Incremental levels of change
Answers: Top-down participation
Long time requirements
Brand new business processes
 

Incremental levels of change
  • Question 7

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Tacit knowledge deals with:
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Answers: Data, documents, and things written down or stored on computers.
 

“How-to” knowledge, which resides in workers.
Using data mining techniques to capture external information.
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  • Question 8

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A customer-focused business can build customer value and loyalty by:
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Answers: Making a loyal customer feel special with website personalization
Letting customers check order history and delivery status
Letting customers place orders directly or through distribution partners
 

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  • Question 9

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Internet technologies can make customers the focal point of customer relationship management.
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Answers: This can create new channels for interactive communications with customers
This encourages customer collaboration in service and technical support
This encourages customer collaboration in product development
 

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  • Question 10

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According to your text, a firm can survive and succeed in the long run if it successfully develops strategies to confront five competitive forces that shape the structure of competition in its industry. When a firm develops ways to differentiate their products and services from their competitors’, which competitive strategy are they pursuing?
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Rivalry
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Differentiation
Alliance
Rivalry
Threat
  • Question 11

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Your text outlines five basic competitive strategies that a company can use to counter the threats of competitive forces that shape the structure of competition in its industry. When a company develops new products and services that are fundamentally different from its competitors, it is using which competitive strategy?
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Product differentiation
Answers: Cost leadership
Innovation
 

Product differentiation
Strategic dominance
  • Question 12

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Your text outlines five basic competitive strategies that a business can use to counter the threats of competitive forces that shape the structure of competition in its industry. Becoming a low-cost producer of products and services in an industry is an example of a(n):
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Cost leadership strategy
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Cost leadership strategy
Differentiation strategy
Innovation strategy
Growth strategy
  • Question 13

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As a virtual company, Cisco:
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Answers: Uses IT to link people, organizations, assets and ideas
Does not actually manufacture anything itself; it relies on companies it collaborates with to do the actual manufacturing
Uses the Internet, intranets and extranets to support alliances with manufacturers
 

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  • Question 14

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_______________ agility is the ability to co-opt customers in the exploitation of innovation opportunities.
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Customer
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Customer
Partnering
Operational
Technological
  • Question 15

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Your text outlines five competitive forces that shape the structure of competition in an industry. Which one of the following is one of the five basic competitive forces discussed in your text?
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The bargaining power of suppliers
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The bargaining power of suppliers
Barriers to entry
Competitive necessity
Competitive advantage
  • Question 16

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Which one of the following is NOT one of the basic competitive strategies discussed in the text?
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Strategic dominance
Answers: Cost leadership
Innovation
Product differentiation
 

Strategic dominance
  • Question 17

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Which of the following is a support process?
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Customer relationship management
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Collaborative workflow intranet
Targeted marketing
Customer relationship management
Just-in-time warehousing
  • Question 18

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Virtual companies typically:
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Form virtual workgroups and alliances with business partners that are interlinked by the Internet, intranets and extranets
Answers: Put substantial resources into information technology to support the goal of being a virtual company
Is seen as an objective that will save a company a tremendous amount of resources in new office and manufacturing construction expenses
Merely a theoretical term used by management to see what aspects of collaboration via electronic means they should seek to utilize
 

Form virtual workgroups and alliances with business partners that are interlinked by the Internet, intranets and extranets
  • Question 19

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According to your text, information systems must be viewed:
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Answers: Strategically, that is, as a vital competitive network
As a means of organizational renewal
As necessary investments that help a company adopt strategies and new or improved business processes
 

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  • Question 20

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Business process engineering includes:
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Improved new versions of current processes
Answers: Bottom-up participation
Short time requirements
Improved new versions of current processes
 

Radical levels of change

 

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