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Information Technology For Management Improving Strategic And Operational Performance 8th Edition Efraim Turban Linda Volonino - Solutions
2. Who are the potential victims of an organization’s data breach?
1. Why are cleanup costs after a single data breach or infosec incident in the tens of millions of dollars?
6. How are information content and context related?
5. What is Google Wave?
4. What are the dysfunctions of group processes?
3. What are the benefits of working in groups?
2. Why is group work challenging?
1. What is virtual collaboration?
6. What is an information portal?
5. What is enterprise search?
4. What is the difference between an extranet and an intranet?
3. What is a virtual private network (VPN)?
2. What are the benefits of an IP-based network?
1. How might a company’s business performance be affected by its network’s capabilities?
5. What major vendors are helping drive the mobile enterprise?
4. Why is WiMAX important?
3. What is a WLAN?
2. How does Wi-Fi work?
1. What factors are contributing to mobility?
5. What factors should be considered when selecting a mobile network?
4. What are the mobile network standards?
3. What is broadband?
2. What is the difference between 3G and 4G?
1. What is the difference between circuit switching and packet switching?
5. How does creating backups of electronic records differ from ERM?
4. Define discovery and e-discovery.
3. Why is ERM important to an organization?
1. Define ECM.
6. Why are data centers important to performance?
5. How can a data warehouse support a company’s compliance requirements and green initiatives?
4. What are the data functions performed by a data warehouse?
3. What is an advantage of an active data warehouse?
1. What is the main difference in the designs of databases and data warehouses?
3. What is the difference between the physical view of and the logical view of data?
2. What are three data functions of a DBMS?
1. What is a database? A database management system (DBMS)?
3. How do the data access methods of sequential file organization and direct file access methods differ?
2. Why does each record in a database need a unique identifier (primary key)?
1. What are three limitations of the file management approach?
7. What are three benefits of document management systems?
6. What is text and document management?
5. What is master data management?
4. How can data visualization tools and technology improve decision making?
3. Why is it difficult to manage, search, and retrieve data located throughout the enterprise?
2. What constraints do managers face when they cannot trust data?
1. What is the goal of data management?
5. Describe software-as-a-service and its benefits. Why is it referred to as utility computing?
4. What are the benefits of cloud computing?
3. Describe cloud computing.
2. Describe virtualization.
1. Define information infrastructure.
4. What is RFID? What are its major benefits?
3. What is an internal supply chain?
2. What is meant by an extended enterprise?
1. Describe how IT can support the supply chain of a retailer.
5. Define DSS and provide an example.
4. Define MIS and provide an example.
3. Explain why TPS needs to process incoming data before storing it in a database.
2. What is a functional information system?
1. Define TPS and provide an example.
3. Define data, information, and knowledge.
2. What is an application program?
1. Define information system.
2. Why is it beneficial to study IT today?
5. Describe real-time business and information systems.
6. Define ethics.
5. Describe organizational responses.
4. List some environmental issues of data centers.
3. What is green IT and why has it become important?
2. Describe the impact of the business environment and list some of its components.
1. Define business performance management and show its cycle.
3. What business objectives are supported by ISs?
2. Describe the building blocks of an information system.
1. Define an information system.
4. What is a business model?
3. Describe how to assess the value of an innovation.
2. What opportunities have been created by the mass migration of users from PCs to mobile devices?
4. In this chapter, you read many examples of companies, industry groups, and government agencies investing in IT infrastructure that ultimately reduced GHGs and CO2 emissions.Compare and contrast the green initiatives at Argonne’s CNM to the biofuel initiative in Nigeria discussed in IT at Work
3. What is the advantage of a computer cluster over a single computer of comparable computing power?The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is renowned for its research centers in energy and environmental science, computation and biosciences, and national security.Argonne’s
2. Why is nanoscale research so power-intensive?The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is renowned for its research centers in energy and environmental science, computation and biosciences, and national security.Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) studies the
1. Explain the importance of nanoscale research.The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is renowned for its research centers in energy and environmental science, computation and biosciences, and national security.Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) studies the
5. Global warming has been a known problem for over a decade. Why didn’t the auto manufacturers undertake the ENERGY STAR program years ago?The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program has helped the auto manufacturing industry increase its energy efficiency. As of mid-2010,
4. What is energy management?The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program has helped the auto manufacturing industry increase its energy efficiency. As of mid-2010, the auto manufacturing industry had cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and reduced GHG emissions by more than
3. Why are companies in many industries motivated to earn the ENERGY STAR label?The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program has helped the auto manufacturing industry increase its energy efficiency. As of mid-2010, the auto manufacturing industry had cut fossil fuel use by 12
2. What is the importance of cutting carbon emissions?The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program has helped the auto manufacturing industry increase its energy efficiency. As of mid-2010, the auto manufacturing industry had cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and reduced GHG
1. Explain ENERGY STAR Energy Performance Indicators (EPIs).The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program has helped the auto manufacturing industry increase its energy efficiency. As of mid-2010, the auto manufacturing industry had cut fossil fuel use by 12 percent and reduced
2. Assume that you read about a new nonprescription drug discovery called “Ace-the-Exam.”This remarkable drug, being marketed to students for $19.99 plus shipping and handling, would keep the person awake and with perfect recall of what he or she had read in the textbook in preparation for the
1. Visit the U.S. Green Building Council at usgbc.org/. From the menu bar, select the Quick Link for Case for Green Building (PowerPoint). Download the file about LEEDS and view the slides. Identify three buildings and their ecofriendly characteristics.
2. The state of California maintains a database of people who allegedly abuse children. (The database also includes names of the alleged victims.) The list is made available to dozens of public agencies, and it is considered in cases of child adoption and employment decisions.Because so many people
1. The news that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been seeking search data from Google,Yahoo, MSN, and America Online to track activities of “people or groups of interest” has struck fear into the hearts of Web surfers.Many users are concerned, not because they’ve done anything wrong,
4. Read IT at Work 14.1. Answer the questions at the end.
3. Visit wirelessintelligence.com/green-power/ and download the Google Earth plugin at earth.google.com/plugin/.Then look at the 3-D view of mobile green power deployments/solutions. Report what you learned.
2. List three business applications or support for business activities available on the iPhone 3G or Sprint 4G phone.
1. List five opportunities to work remotely that are available at your workplace or educational institution. If you were to take advantage of these opportunities to telework, describe what potential impacts they could have on your life.
10. Discuss how IT is expected to influence organizations in the future.
9. Discuss whether information overload is a problem in your work or education. Based on your experience, what personal and organizational solutions can you recommend for this problem?
8. Clerks at 7-Eleven stores enter data regarding customers’ gender, approximate age, and so on into a computer system. However, names are not keyed in.These data are then aggregated and analyzed to improve corporate decision making. Customers are not informed about this, nor are they asked for
7. If you were an employee in a company that offered telecommuting options, would you prefer to work from home, from the office, or some combination of both?Explain your answer.
6. What are some communication casualties of IT?
5. What changes do you predict in the way we communicate with each other in the future?
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