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BUS 101 - Information Technology Management
Midterm 1
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Business
Undergraduate 3
10/29/2011

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internet advertising
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increasing at 10% a year
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business processes
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set of logical related tasks and behaviors that organizations develop over time to produce specific business results. doesn’t have to be formal.
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information technology
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consists of all hardware and software
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information systems
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collects, processes, stores and distributes to support decision making and control in an organization.
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digital firm
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firm which nearly all of the organization's significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enables and mediated.
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business model
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how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth
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business functions
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specialized tasks performed by business organizations, consist of sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, and human resources
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network
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links two or more computers to share data or resources
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intranet
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internal corporate network based on internet technology
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extranet
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private intranets extended to authorized users
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IT infrastructure
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technologies and the people required to run and manage them represent resources that can be shared throughout the organization
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complementary assets
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required to derive value from a primary investment
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business intelligence
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contemporary term for data and software tools for organizing, analyzing and providing access to data to help managers make more informed decisions
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teleprescence
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integrate audio and visual environment that allows a person to give the appearance of a different physical location than the actual location
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disruptive technologies
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radically changes the business landscape and environment
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transaction cost theory
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a firm economizes on transaction costs like they do with production costs
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competitive forces model
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the most widely used model for understanding competitive advantage. includes new market entrants, substitute products, suppliers, customers that affect the firm and its competitors
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product differentiation
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products are different so they cannot be compared to one another by price alone
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mass customization
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individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as mass production
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switching costs
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the cost of switching from one product to a competing product
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value chain model
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highlights specific activities that a business can best apply competitive strategies
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primary activities
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directly related to the production and distribution of products and services, which create value for for the customer
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support activities
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make the delivery of primary activities possible (organization infrastructure)
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value web
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collection of independent firms that use IT to coordinate their value chains to produce a product or service for a market collectively
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profiling
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combine data on individuals
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NORA
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new data analysis technology
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Fair Information Practices
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set of principles governing the collection and use of information about individuals
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server
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provide client computers with a variety of services and capabilties
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cloud computing
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refers to a model of computing that provides access to a shared pool of computing resources
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Moore's Law
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rate of growth doubles every two years
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blade servers
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ultrathin computers consisting of circuit board with processors, memory, and network connections
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