Section A Long answer Type: Answer all Nine (9) questions. 1. What are three (3) of the qualities of decisions and the decision making process? Explain using example in your country. (6 marks) 2. There are different levels in an organization and each of these levels has different information requirements for decision support. Explain in this context the differences between unstructured‚ semi-structured and structured decisions as they relate to the different levels of management. (6 marks)
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Chapter: 3 Information Systems‚ Organizations‚ and Strategy LEARNING OBJECTIVES * Identify and describe important features of organizations that managers need to know about in order to build and use information systems successfully. * Evaluate the impact of information systems on organizations. * Demonstrate how Porter’s competitive forces model and the value chain model help businesses use information systems for competitive advantage. * Demonstrate how information systems help businesses
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There are several types of technologies that exist in businesses to assist in marketing management decision making. Marketers have to deal with price‚ product‚ promotion and place. To help with each different marketing factor‚ different business information systems have been developed. Diagram 1 shows businesses core competencies and the roles that marketing plays and the importance of an effective Business Information System (BIS). Diagram 1. Business Core Competencies Pricing decisions
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employee are examples of business processes. Answer: True False 2) A fully digital firm produces only digital goods or services. Answer: True False 3) A business model describes how a company produces‚ delivers‚ and sells a product or service to create wealth. Answer: True False 4) Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives‚ whereas information systems consist of all
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and sells them on. CBC provides different grade cleaning products to a number of very different sectors. For example‚ food processing industries‚ hotels‚ catering organisations‚ hospitals and public organisations such as leisure centres and schools. The needs of each of the different sectors serviced by CBC are very different‚ and each sector is‚ therefore‚ treated entirely separately from the others. A catalogue detailing the cleaning products available is produced for each of the sectors – a restaurant
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Categorizing Monitoring Before we look at the various types of monitoring‚ let us define some categories for the monitoring types. There are three basic categories of monitoring; technical monitoring‚ functional monitoring and business process monitoring. These three categories have a very clear hierarchy. Assuming well-configured monitoring‚ a green light on a higher level indicates that all levels below it are performing well. If there are any red lights on a lower level‚ this is an indication
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Accounting Information Systems and the Accountant True-False Questions 1. The acronym AIS stands for “Accounting Information Standards.” 2. Accounting information systems must be computerized to be effective. 3. It is best to view an AIS as an accounting system that must be computerized. 4. AISs often create information that is useful to non-accountants. 5. In order to be useful‚ raw accounting data must be processed by a computer. 6. The path that data follow in an AIS‚ for example from manual
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A marketing information system (MIS) is a set of procedures and methods designed to generate‚ analyze‚ disseminate‚ and store anticipated marketing decision information on a regular‚ continuous basis. An information system can be used operationally‚ managerially‚ and strategically for several aspects of marketing. A marketing information system can be used operationally‚ managerially‚ and strategically for several aspects of marketing. We all know that no marketing activity can be carried out in
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Research RESEARCH ARTICLE STUDYING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH: DISCOURSES AND THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS1 By: Ulrike Schultze Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University P.O. Box 750333 Dallas‚ TX 75275-0333 U.S.A. uschultz@mail.cox.smu.edu Dorothy E. Leidner Hankamer School of Business Baylor University Waco‚ TX 76798-8005 U.S.A. Dorothy_Leidner@baylor.edu Abstract In information systems‚ most research on knowledge management assumes that knowledge
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processes and implementing change by redefining the business tasks in a holistic or process-oriented term. The winners of tomorrow are also those who gather crucial information and act on them quickly. Making informed business decisions enables businesses to accomplish their business growth and enables them to utilize the information to
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