INFO 360 tests 1-3

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The three activities in an information system that produce the information organizations use to control operations are:

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Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:

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A hierarchy:

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The field that deals with behavioral issues, as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in the firm, is called:

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All of the following can be considered managerial responsibilities except:

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Data management technology consists of:

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Promoting the organization's products or services is a responsibility of the ________ function.

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Checking for product quality is an activity associated with the ______ function.

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That assist with paperwork at all levels of the firm are called:

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The three principal levels of hierarchies within a business organization are:

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Engineers and architects are examples of:

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Which type of system would you use to change a production schedule if a key supplier was late in delivering goods?

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________ is the ability to offer individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as bulk production.

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A substitute product of most concern for a cable TV distributor is:

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When the output of some units can be used as inputs to other units, or if two organizations pool markets and expertise that result in lower costs and generate profits, it is often referred to as creating:

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The iPad can be seen as a disruptive technology for the ___________ industry.

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A ___________ is an activity at which a firm excels as a world-class leader.

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Which of the following can force a business and its competitors to compete on price alone?

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In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of:

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Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for the decisions you make is referred to as:

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The practice in law-governed societies in which laws are known and understood, and there is an ability to appeal to higher authorities to ensure that the laws are applied correctly is called:

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Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of
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All of the following are current key technology trends raising ethical issues except:

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Types of information gathered by Web site tracking tools include all of the following except:

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An extranet is a private intranet extended to authorized users outside the organization.

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Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information systems, while computer literacy describes the technical approach.

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Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are all examples of business processes.

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Business processes are those logically related tasks for accomplishing tasks that have been formally encoded by an organization.

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As a result of new public laws, accountants are beginning to perform more technical duties, such as auditing systems and networks.

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A network requires at least three computers and a shared resource.

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Senior management is responsible for directing the day-to-day activities of the business.

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Transaction processing systems are most commonly encountered at the senior management level of an organization.

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Transaction processing systems are the basic business systems that serve the operational level of the organization.

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Most MISs use sophisticated mathematical models or statistical techniques.

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ESSs are designed to incorporate data about external events, but they also draw summarized information from internal MIS and DSS.

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ESSs are designed primarily to solve specific problems.

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A firm can be said to have competitive advantage when it has higher stock market valuations than its competitors.

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A primary challenge in BPM is employee resistance.

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A transparent marketplace means that there is high product differentiation.

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The greatest barrier to changing business processes is, ironically, management itself.

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BPM is considered concluded when the new processes are both implemented and accepted.

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In the value chain model, primary activities are most directly related to the production and distribution of the firm's products and services that create value for the customer.

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Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult.

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Professionals take on special rights and obligations because of their special claims to knowledge, wisdom, and respect.

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Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors investigating financial crimes at their firm.

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Most Internet businesses do very little to protect the privacy of their customers.

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Copyright is the legal protection afforded intellectual property, such as a song, book, or video game.

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Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online movements.

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Most American and European privacy law is based on a set of five principles called COPPA.

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Software used to apply the computer to a specific task for an end user is called:

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Legacy systems are still in use today because:

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_________ describes the practices and technologies used minimize the environmental effects of manufacturing and managing computing devices.

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An industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure, optimize, tune, and heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction is called:

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Microsoft Word is an example of:

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Microsoft Excel is an example of:

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An example of a pre-digital database is a:

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Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between entities and attributes?

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In a relational database, a record is also called a(n):

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A field identified in a record as holding the unique identifier for that record is called the:

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Which of the following would you use to find out which Web sites with content related to database design were the most often linked to by other Web sites?

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Which of the following is not a typical feature of DBMS?

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A ______________ is special software that routes and manages communications on the network and coordinates networks resources.

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Which of the following statements is not true about search engines?

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Which of the following is an example of the "visual Web"?

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A LAN would be used to connect all of the following except:

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What is the primary difference between 3G and 4G cellular systems?

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__________ integrate(s) disparate channels for voice communications, data communications, instant messaging, e-mail, and electronic conferencing into a single experience.

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Evil twins are:

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You have been hired as a security consultant for a law firm. Which of the following constitutes the greatest source of security threats to the firm?

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Tricking employees to reveal their passwords by pretending to be a legitimate member of a company is called:

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Which of the following is a type of ambient data?

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Computer forensics tasks include all of the following except:

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The development and use of methods to make computer systems resume their activities more quickly after mishaps is called:

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Most antivirus software is effective against:

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Systems integration means ensuring the legacy systems work with new elements of the infrastructure.

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Using an online storage service such as DropBox is a type of virtualization.

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SaaS providers deliver and provide Web-based, remote access to storage.

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One of the main benefits of moving to mobile business computing platforms is the dramatically lower costs of hardware.

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Total cost of ownership components include costs for downtime, training, and support.

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The collection of Web services that are used to build a firm's software systems constitutes what is known as a service-oriented architecture.

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Web mining is the discovery of useful patterns on the Web.

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Every record in a file should contain at least one key field.

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OLAP is a key tool of BI.

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Data cleansing is the same process as data scrubbing

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The two key services of Hadoop are HDFS and in-memory computing

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DBMS simplify how end users work with databases by separating the logical and physical views of the data.

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To create a computer network, you must have at least two computers.

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Circuit switching makes much more efficient use of the communications capacity of a network than does packet switching.

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Mobile search makes up approximately 10% of all Internet searches

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Two computers using TCP/IP can communicate even if they are based on different hardware and software platforms.

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VoIP technology delivers voice information in digital form using packet switching.

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In a large company today, you will often find an infrastructure that includes hundreds of small LANs linked to each other as well as to corporate-wide networks.

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In a client/server network, a network server provides every connected client with an address so it can be found by others on the network.

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The term cracker is used to identify a hacker whose specialty is breaking open security systems

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The term cracker is used to identify a hacker whose specialty is breaking open security systems

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One form of spoofing involves forging the return address on an e-mail so that the e-mail message appears to come from someone other than the sender.

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The distributed nature of cloud computing makes it somewhat easier to track unauthorized access.

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Zero defects cannot be achieved in larger software programs because fully testing programs that contain thousands of choices and millions of paths would require thousands of years.

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SSL is a protocol used to establish a secure connection between two computers.

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Enterprise software is built around thousands of predefined business processes that reflect:

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Which of the following is not true about enterprise systems?

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When tailoring a particular aspect of a system to the way a company does business, enterprise software can provide the company with:

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In order to achieve maximum benefit from an enterprise software package, a business:

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A company's suppliers, supplier's suppliers, and the processes for managing relationships with them is the:

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Why is overstocking warehouses not an effective solution for a problem of low availability?

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Which of the following is not one of the unique features of e-commerce technology

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The integration of video, audio, and text marketing messages into a single marketing message and consumer experience describes which dimension of e-commerce technology?

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Selling products and services directly to individual consumers via the Internet best describes

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Transaction brokers

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EDI is:

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Goods that are involved in the actual production process are referred to as:

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Where there is no well-understood or agreed-on procedure for making a decision, it is said to be

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The type of decision that can be made by following a definite procedure is called a(n) ___________ decision.

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Simon's four different stages in decision making are, in order from first to last

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Which dimension of quality means that a decision faithfully reflects the concerns and interests of affected parties?

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All of the following are analytic functionalities that BI systems deliver except:

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Why is the balanced scorecard method said to be "balanced"?

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"Hidden costs," such as _________ costs, can easily undercut anticipated benefits from outsourcing.

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The primary tool for representing a system's component processes and the flow of data between them is the:

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You would expect to find all of the following in an information systems plan except

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__________ is a method for deciding among alternative systems based on a system of ratings for selected objectives.

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A systems analysis includes a ____________ that is used to determine whether the solution is achievable from a financial, technical, and organizational standpoint.

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The project risk will rise if the project team and the IS staff lack

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____________ are tangible benefits of information systems.

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Supply chain management systems are a type of enterprise system

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In a pull-based model of SCM systems, production master schedules are based on forecasts of demand for products.

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Total supply chain costs in some industries approach 75 percent of the total operating budget

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CRM software can help organizations identify high-value customers for preferential treatments

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Enterprise systems require fundamental changes in the way the business operates.

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The bullwhip effect is the distortion of information about the demand for a product as it passes from one entity to the next across the supply chain.

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Rich media advertisements are a sales-oriented marketing format

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An example of the content provider business model is Barnesandnoble.com, a retailer of printed books.

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Ninety-six percent of all U.S. households with Internet access use a broadband connection

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Automobile manufacturing is an example of a vertical market

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In the free/freemium revenue model, firms offer basic services for free and charge a fee for special features.

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Web personalization is used primarily as a major marketing tool

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In high-velocity automated decision making, humans are eliminated from the decision chain

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DSS primarily address structured problems

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GDSS are designed to display data in the form of digitized maps

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CBR is used in diagnostic systems in medicine

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Shopping bots are a form of intelligent agent

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Enterprise-wide knowledge management systems deal with structured and semistructured knowledge, while other systems are used for unstructured knowledge.

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Knowledge can reside in e-mail, voice mail, graphics, and unstructured documents as well as structured documents.

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Documentation reveals how well the system has met its original objectives

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Gantt and PERT charts are two common formal planning tools for project managemen

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More timely information is a tangible benefit of information systems

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An information systems plan shows how specific information systems fit into a company's overall business plan and business strategy.

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End-user-developed systems can be completed more rapidly than those developed through the conventional programming tools.

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A new information system is not considered in production until conversion is complete

Quiz am INFO 360 tests 1-3 , erstellt von stevensae am 10/12/2015.

INFO 360 tests 1-3

The three activities in an information system that produce the information organizations use to control operations are:

Output:

Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:

A hierarchy:

The field that deals with behavioral issues, as well as technical issues surrounding the development, use, and impact of information systems used by managers and employees in the firm, is called:

All of the following can be considered managerial responsibilities except:

Data management technology consists of:

Promoting the organization's products or services is a responsibility of the ________ function.

Checking for product quality is an activity associated with the ______ function.

That assist with paperwork at all levels of the firm are called:

The three principal levels of hierarchies within a business organization are:

Engineers and architects are examples of:

Which type of system would you use to change a production schedule if a key supplier was late in delivering goods?

________ is the ability to offer individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as bulk production.

A substitute product of most concern for a cable TV distributor is:

When the output of some units can be used as inputs to other units, or if two organizations pool markets and expertise that result in lower costs and generate profits, it is often referred to as creating:

The iPad can be seen as a disruptive technology for the ___________ industry.

A ___________ is an activity at which a firm excels as a world-class leader.

Which of the following can force a business and its competitors to compete on price alone?

In the information age, the obligations that individuals and organizations have regarding the preservation of existing values and institutions fall within the moral dimension of:

Which of the five moral dimensions of the information age do the central business activities of
Choice Point raise?