IS Manoa class

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IS flash cards uh manoa


 
  
Created Sep 13, 2011
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Threat of entryA barrier to entry is _____________________....
 
Threat of entry of new competitors is high when it is easy to enter a market and low when significant...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Bargaining Power of ConsumerWhat is impact of internet...
 
The bargaining power of suppliers is high when buyers have few choices and low when buyers...
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Internet reduces ___________ costs,Is there brand loyalty on the Internet?
 
switching costs:  which are the costs, in money and time, to buy elsewhere.  This...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: substitute products
 
The threat of substitute products or services is high when there are many substitutes for...
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Porter’s Competitive Forces Model: Rivalry
 
The rivalry among firms in an industry is high when there is fierce competition and low when...
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Define Porter’s Value Chain Model 
 
This model identifies specific activities where organizations can use competitive strategies...
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Strategies for Competitive Advantage
 
Cost Leadership: wal-mart. why pay more? Differentiation: southwest airlines - its an airbus,...
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Primary activities Support activities
 
p:Business activities that relate to the production and distribution of the firm’s products...
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Why are Information Systems Important to Organizations & SocietyIS may reduce______________...
 
IS may reduce the number of middle managers. Increases manager productivity Bad from a career...
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Central processing unit (CPU)
 
Manipulates Data & Controls tasks
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Primary storage - Volatile
 
Internal to the CPU
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Secondary storage – Non volatile
 
External to the CPU
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Input technologies
 
Converts inputs into understandable form
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Output technologies
 
Present data in human understandable form
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Communication technologies
 
Flow of data from networks to CPU to Networks
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How do organizations keep up with the rapid price and performance advancements in hardware?How...
 
does it make economic sense? will it improve productivity?
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Too much or too little computing power. Maybe most important question.
 
User environment needs to be positive -= there needs to be enough power to run processes and...
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Server farm
 
rows and rows of pineapples
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server virtualization
 
make one machine "look" like 20 machines = 10% works for the website, 10% works for the email...
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grid computing
 
on demand - I pay based on what I use. leverag power of the grid - NY is running out 100%,...
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utility computing
 
on demand - I pay based on what I use.
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cloud computing
 
on demand - I pay based on what I use. main dif btwn grid (in a company - owned). Cloud is...
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Edge computing
 
on demand - I pay based on what I use
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great hardware without great software is
 
useless
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two types of osftware
 
system and application

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