Principles Of Business Information Systems 3rd Edition Ralph M. Stair, Thomas Chesney, George Reynolds - Solutions

Explain the main components of decision making.
What is a satisficing model?
Outline the main distinguishing features of some of the reports produced by an MIS.
Compare and contrast a programmed and nonprogrammed decision using examples.
A decision-making approach that encourages ideas ‘off the top’ of participants’ heads is ___________?
A GSS supports decision making by a ___________.
Making hypothetical changes to data and observing the results is ___________.
GIS stands for ___________.
An MIS that supports promotional effectiveness is a ___________ MIS.
A regular, periodic report is called ___________.
Most of the data for an MIS comes from a ___________.
A model that produces a good enough decision is called ___________.
A programmed decision can be made by a computer by following a ___________.
The first stage in decision making is the ___________ stage.
Do you think some did but just did not report it?Why would someone do this?
How can Howell Jones say the chance of it going unnoticed is low? It did go unnoticed for over a year after all.
What do you think the Courts and Tribunals Services should have done after the mistake was discovered?
In technical terms this was a very simple mistake. How do you think such a simple mistake could appear on such an important website?
Why would someone pay for Microsoft Office when OpenOffice is available?
What are some of the problems with the burger bar decision? Did we make any bad assumptions?
Which is more useful for what-if analysis – the numbers or the graph? Explain your decision.
Implement the predator-prey example and try the questions at the end.
How could similar approaches be used in other sectors such as the fitness industry?
How would you have approached the 2006 Netflix competition? You can look up the winning entry to see what they did.
Does personalized advertising threaten traditional broadcast television?
Does a data-driven approach make it less likely that innovative shows will be produced in the future?
How can companies deal with the disruption that implementing an ERP creates?
How could a company decide at what point stock becomes dead stock?
How does warehouse management software help reduce dead stock?
List some of the costs associated with running a warehouse.
Recreate a recent presentation you gave as a talk without slides. Do you think you have made it better or worse?
Why do you think Steve Jobs was considered to be such a good presenter?
Outline a guide to using Prezi that would minimize motion sickness. Does your guide effectively turn it back into PowerPoint?
What purposes do slides serve? You should be able to list several key points.
Use an image search to look for screen shots of executive information systems and decision support systems. What are the differences between them, if any?
Think about an online account you have, perhaps with Amazon. What information do you think they store about you? Have a look at your account. What information is stored about you?Write a short report detailing your findings.
Are there any barriers holding m-commerce back and what are they? How could you overcome them?
A website should store all information it can about the people who use it. Discuss.
What are some of the international challenges associated with operational systems?
What is the relationship between m-commerce and e-commerce?
Where do data for a CRM come from?
What is B2Me?
Why do data need correction?
List several TPS that support order processing.
What are some of the advantages of ERP?
How could RFID be used to minimize data entry errors?
What basic transaction processing activities are performed by all TPS?
Compare and contrast batch processing and OLTP.
When you sell an old textbook on Amazon to another student you are taking part in __________ commerce.
A wholesaler selling to a high street shop via the Internet is an example of __________.
CRM stands for __________.
Systems used to improve interaction between a government and its citizens form __________.
Buying a book on a smartphone is an example of __________.
The process of performing calculations and other data transformations is __________.
RFID can be used to __________ the data necessary for transaction processing.
OLTP is __________.
Systems that allow an organization to conduct business are __________.
ERP stands for __________.
Create a tracking policy that sets forth sensible employee monitoring parameters.
What did Intermex do wrong, if anything?
How do you think tracking apps should be explained to field staff to encourage their use without complaint?
Do employers have a moral right to track employees when they are at work?
How could sales data determine product ranges?
How does a loyalty card capture personal data from customers?
How does the POS help Yonghe King open stores and expand?
Would you have advised Yonghe King to use Windows or an open source platform?
Should the choice be up to the IT manager or the user?
Could you design a purchasing strategy to avoid this sort of problem in the future?
How would you choose between Laptop A, B, C and D?
So how would you explain this to the finance officer?
Should IP geolocation be an exact science?(Should telecoms firms be forced to pin down exactly where devices are?)
What other uses could IP geolocation be put to?
What could MaxMind do to keep the service being useful but stop problems like this?
Why do you think MaxMind’s clients (the police for instance) were not aware of the inexact nature of this service?
Could governments ever be able to control encryption technology?
Investigate clock arithmetic in enough detail so that you can explain it to a friend.
Should a government be able to read all instant messages? Why or why not?
Does this mean that email is less secure than instant messaging?
Register for a LinkedIn account and prepare your professional profile, ready for the job market.
Create a five minute presentation using Google Docs on a topic of your choice.
What are some of the uses of NFC?
What are the advantages of using cloud computing?
What is a web service?
What is HTML?
What is an intranet?
What is FTP used for?
What are some of the uses of NFC?
What is mesh networking?
What can you do with a PAN?
Describe microwave transmission.
Describe a metropolitan area network. How does it compare to a LAN?
What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous communication?
Google Docs and Zoho are examples of ___________.
FTP is ___________.
___________ allow websites to communicate with each other.
The ___________ tag turns text on a web page bold.
___________ and ___________ are communications software.
A ___________ uses a physical device address in each incoming message on a network to determine to which output port it should forward the message to reach another device on the same network.
A very short range wireless data transmission is ___________.
Using electricity cables for data transmission is ___________.

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