Deck 1: B: Organizations, Processes, and Information Systems

Question 1

People in organizations are becoming more dependent on information.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Due to globalization,organizations tend to locate their operations in one country.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Information and communication technologies help organization coordinate their global operations.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The information revolution refers to the increased use of communication and computer technologies to create,deliver,and use information.

Question 5

Unstructured information is well defined and its source is known.

Question 6

One consequence of globalization is increased competition.

Question 7

The silo effect refers to the integrated and the cross-functional nature of business processes.

Question 8

Structured information is well defined and its source is known.

Question 9

Due to globalization,organizations often locate parts of their operations in different countries.

Question 10

Functional Information Systems only support the activities of specific areas of the business.

Question 11

Knowledge workers exist in all parts of an organization.

Question 12

Knowledge workers are those who work in information systems departments of global companies.

Question 13

Task workers perform routine,well defined work.

Question 14

In a manual (paper-based)process,information is communicated between functional areas using an enterprise system.

Question 15

The information revolution has a very limited role in globalization.

Question 16

The silo effect refers to be losing sight of the big picture of the process and being narrowly focused on a task.