Question 1

Management groups has different responsibilities and different needs for information and business intelligence,with decisions becoming less structured among _______________of management

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Question 2

In their ________________________,managers act as entrepreneurs by initiating new kinds of activities; they handle disturbances arising in the organization; they allocate resources to staff members who need them; and they negotiate conflicts and mediate between conflicting groups.

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Question 3

You are an analyst for a firm that imports and distributes specialty oils and vinegars and your company wants you to evaluate their options for taking advantage of cutting edge business analytics.What are their choices? What will you recommend?

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Question 4

Describe MIS and DSS and differentiate between them.

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Question 5

What is the business value of a DSS?

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Question 6

By presenting data in visual form,_______________________and visual analytics tools help users see patterns and relationships in large amounts of data that would be difficult to discern if the data were presented as traditional lists of text or numbers.

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Question 7

_______________models ask what-if questions repeatedly to predict a range of outcomes when one or more variables are changed multiple times.

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Question 8

Performance on each dimension is measured using _____________________,which are the measures proposed by senior management for understanding how well the firm is performing along any given dimension.

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Question 9

You are evaluating BI software from a variety of vendors.Identify six elements in the BI environment.Use your understanding of the importance of these elements to formulate six questions to ask the vendor in order to determine how their software will interplay with your needs.

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Question 10

__________________________________ are a special category of tools for helping decision makers visualize problems requiring knowledge about the geographic distribution of people or other resources

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Question 11

Describe the balanced scorecard model and its role in ESS.

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Question 12

_______________________make it possible to increase meeting size while at the same time increasing productivity because individuals contribute simultaneously rather than one at a time.

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Question 13

In their ________________________,managers act as the nerve centres of their organizations,receiving the most concrete,up-to-date information and redistributing it to those who need to be aware of it.

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Question 14

Operational management and rank-and-file employees tend to make more __________________decisions.

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Question 15

In your position of office manager at a legal firm,you are in charge of hiring temporary legal assistants and clerical workers.Describe how Simon's decision-making process applies to this decision.Could that decision be aided by an information system in any way,and if so,how?

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Question 16

A key business decision in your sporting goods manufacturing company is determining what suppliers to use for your raw materials.How can you determine if a manager in charge of selecting suppliers is making the best choice?

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Question 17

Explain why even well-designed information systems do not always help improve a firm's decision making.

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Question 18

What is a GIS? Describe at least three ways in which a GIS could be used by modern business.

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Quiz 12: Enhancing Decision Making