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Chapters 1-4
YOLO SWEG
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 1
02/04/2014

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Information Tech
Definition
Field concerenced with the use of tech in managing and processing information.
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Management Information Systems
Definition
General name for the business function in academic disaplin covering the application of people tech and proceduers to solve business problems
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Data
Definition
raw facts
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Information
Definition
Data converted into meaningful context
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business intelligence
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refers to applications in technology used to gather provide access and analyze data and info to support decision making efforts
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CIO
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Chief Information Officer 

Overseeing use of information tech

insuraning strategic alliance of business goals and objectives

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CTO
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Chief Tech Officer

Insurce the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of an organizations info technology

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CSO
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Chief Security Offficer

Insurces security of IT systems 

PRotects from hackers and viruses

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CPO

 

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Cheif Privacy Officer

ensuaring ethical and legal use of info

 

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CKO

 

 

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Chief knowledge Officer

Collecting maintaing and distributing knowledge

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Key Performance Indicators 

 

 

 

Definition
measures that are tied to business drivers
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Efficiency IT Metrics
Definition
Performance of IT system
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Effictiveness IT Metrics
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Impact IT has on business processes
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Benchmarks
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Base value
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Benchmarking
Definition
process of measuring system results
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competitive advantage
Definition
product or service that an organizations custumers place a greater value on than simalir offerings from a competitior
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first mover advantage
Definition
being the first to market with a competitive advantage
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enviornmental scanning
Definition
acquisition and analysis of events and trends in the enviornment external to an orginization
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buyer power
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Refer to model look in book page 20
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Supplier Power
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refer to book page 20
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supply chain
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consists of all parties involved directly or indirectly in the procurement of a product or raw materials
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private exchange
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is a B2B marketplace in where a single buyer posts its needs opens bids to any supplier that would care to bid
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threat of substitute products or services
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book page 20
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switiching costs
Definition
cost that can make customers switch to another product
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business process
Definition
standarized set of activites that accomplish a specific task
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model
Definition
simplified representation of reality
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transactional information
Definition
encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks
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analytical information
Definition
encompasses all organizational information and its primary purpose is to support the perfomance of managerial analysis tasks
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Online Transaction Processing
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is capturing of transactions and event information using tech to process the info according to defined business roles 

2 store info

3update exsisting info to reflect new info

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transaction processinf system
Definition
basic business system that serves the operational level (analysist) in an organization
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Online Analytical Processing
Definition
the manipulation of info to create business intel in support of strategic decision making
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Desicion support system
Definition
info to support mangers during the decision making process
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sensitity analysis
Definition
the study of the impacts that changes in 1 or more parts of the model have on other parts of the models
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What if analysis
Definition
checks the impact of a change in an assumption on the proposed solution
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Goal seeking analysis
Definition
imputs necessary to achieve a goal
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