A virtual company
Select one:
a. uses networks to link people, assets, and ideas.
b. uses Internet technology to maintain a virtual storefront.
c. uses Internet technology to maintain a networked community of users.
d. provides entirely Internet-driven services, or virtual products.
e. is lim...
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A virtual company
Select one:
a. uses networks to link people, assets, and ideas.
b. uses Internet technology to maintain a virtual storefront.
c. uses Internet technology to maintain a networked community of users.
d. provides entirely Internet-driven services, or virtual products.
e. is limited by traditional organizational boundaries. correct answers a. uses networks to link
people, assets, and ideas.
Which of the following is not a major feature of organizations that impacts the use of
information systems?
Select one:
a. business processes
b. environments
c. goals
d. agency costs
e. leadership styles correct answers d. agency costs
________ is a competitive strategy for creating brand loyalty by developing new and unique
products and services that are not easily duplicated by competitors.
Select one:
a. Product differentiation
b. Low-cost leadership
c. Customer efficiency
d. Mass customization
e. Switching cost correct answers a. Product differentiation
Why does Amazon.com need to worry about competitors in online shopping?
Select one:
a. E-commerce is affected by the law of diminishing returns.
b. Internet technologies are universal, and therefore usable by all companies.
c. Internet shopping produces cost transparency.
d. The Internet enables the production or sales of substitute products or services.
e. The Internet increases switching costs. correct answers b. Internet technologies are universal,
and therefore usable by all companies.
The parts of an organization's infrastructure, human resources, technology, and procurement that
make the delivery of the firm's products or services possible are known as ________ activities.
Select one:
a. primary
b. auxiliary
c. secondary
d. service
e. support correct answers e. support
, The four major competitive strategies are
Select one:
a. low-cost leadership, substitute products and services, customers; and suppliers.
b. low-cost leadership, product differentiation, focus on market niche, and customer and supplier
intimacy.
c. new market entrants, substitute products and services, customers, and suppliers.
d. low-cost leadership, new market entrants, product differentiation, and focus on market niche.
e. customers, suppliers, new market entrants, and substitute products. correct answers b. low-cost
leadership, product differentiation, focus on market niche, and customer and supplier intimacy.
What are the most successful solutions or methods for achieving a business objective?
Select one:
a. value activities
b. best processes
c. core competencies
d. best practices
e. benchmarks correct answers d. best practices
Mintzberg classifies a large bureaucracy existing in a slowly changing environment that
produces standard products and is dominated by centralized management as a ________
bureaucracy.
Select one:
a. machine
b. professional
c. divisionalized
d. multidivisional
e. ad hoc correct answers a. machine
Nike's forays into information technology represent an effort to
Select one:
a. maintain low-cost leadership.
b. focus on market niche.
c. strengthen customer and supplier intimacy.
d. perform intensive customer data analysis.
e. achieve product differentiation. correct answers e. achieve product differentiation.
Which of the following is one of the support activities in a firm's value chain?
Select one:
a. inbound logistics
b. operations
c. sales and marketing
d. service
e. technology correct answers e. technology
The interaction between information systems and organizations is influenced
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