Questions and Answers of Experiencing MIS

In your description, use the data generated by the tool (Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint) that your team uses.
Summarize the reasons that Drew and the AllRoad team need to understand business processes. Explain how process abstractions make the team more effective. Explain why knowledge of the role of
Summarize AllRoad’s business operations. Define business process and give three examples. Define BPMN, swimlane format, activity, role, actor, repository, data flow, sequence flow, and subprocess.
Define two dimensions of process quality. Explain how information systems can improve both of these dimensions.Summarize the ways that information systems can improve the process quality of the
Give four definitions of information. Using your own experience and judgment, rank those definitions in the order of usefulness in business. Justify your ranking. Describe where both data and
Name and describe five data characteristics that are needed to produce quality information. Explain why each is required.
Summarize how knowledge and consideration of business processes will enable the AllRoad team to accomplish its goal.Describe how you can use process models like Figure 2-3 when investigating
Suppose you are discussing 3D printing with Kelly at AllRoad and assume you do not have a process abstraction like that in Figure 2-3. Describe how you would explain your concerns about 3D printing
Evaluate each of the three sequences that you selected in question 2-8. Identify which sequence you think is best.
Explain why this team does not use Lync.
HOW CAN ALLROAD PARTS USE THE CLOUD?
Do you have geotagging enabled on your smartphone?Why or why not?
Give an example how geotagging can be used in a positive way.
Give an example of how using geotagging might be detrimental.
Why might taking pictures of valuables inside your home, with geotagging enabled, be a security concern?
Give an example of how geotagging might affect law enforcement?
Would the military be concerned about geotaggingW?hy or why not?
From the perspective of Kant's categorical imperative (pages 16-17), are Alliance's partners' meeting expense and intended partner distribution unethical?
From the utilitarian perspective (pages 42-43), are Alliance's partners' meeting expense and intended partner distribution unethical?
Do you find any of the following excessive? Explain your answers:a. Spending nearly $200,000 on a 5-day partners' meeting for three partners and their spouses?b. Earning a 74 percent gross profit?c.
To most students, someone who earns $500,000 a year in income is rich. To someone who makes $500,000 a year, partners that pay themselves $1 million to $5 million every 6 months are rich. To someone
List some of the benefits you see from corporations offering cloud-based services to their customers.
List some of the costs you see from corporations offering cloud-based services to their customers.
Name one cloud-based service you use (e.g., email, social media, etc.). If this service was involved in a data breach what data would you lose?
Why would cloud-based service providers be an attractive target for attackers?
How would a network outage affect users of cloud-based services? Would network outages also affect corporations? How?
How could a denial of service (DoS) attack be used to harm a corporation providing a cloud- based service? Could this be done from another country?
Define cloud and explain the three key terms in your definition.Using Figure 6-3 as a guide, compare and contrast cloudbased and in-house hosting. Explain three factors that make cloud computing
Define SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Provide an example of each. For each, describe the business situation in which it would be the most appropriate option. Define CDN and explain the purpose and advantages
Name and describe SaaS products that AllRoad could use.Explain several ways that AllRoad could use PaaS offerings.Summarize why it is unlikely that AllRoad would use IaaS. How would AllRoad use a CDN?
Explain the purpose of a VPN and describe, in broad terms, how a VPN works. Define the term virtual and explain how it relates to VPN. Define private cloud. Summarize why the benefits of a private
What is the likely future of the cloud? Summarize the good and bad news that the cloud brings. Explain why the photo in Figure 6-2 is disturbing. Explain the statement “The cloud lifts all
The cloud is a fundamental shift in the way that organizations acquire computing infrastructure. It enables organizations to share in the benefits of near-zero costs of data processing, storage, and
Given your answers to questions 6-4 to 6-8, would you rather be an existing ISV attempting to adapt to this new world or an entirely new company? Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages
Using your own words, explain the meaning of the statement "Most IT problems are workflow problems, not software problems."
Consider the classroom assignment problem. Briefly describe three ways of solving that problem. Which of those three is the most promising? Why?
In your opinion, is the demand for professionals who know IS_and_something going to decrease? Increase? Stay about the same? Justify your response; search the Internet for data to support your claim.
If you were to become an expert in IS_and_something, what would the something be? Search the Internet for employment prospects for that career choice.
Examine your current plan of courses before you graduate. What courses do you need to add to your plan to learn IS_and_something? Will you add these courses? Why or why not?
Consider the email you write that agrees to take the product back.a. Is your action ethical according to the categorical imperative (pages 16-17) perspective?b. Is your action ethical according to
Explain how information systems vary by scope. Provide examples of four levels of information scope other than those in this chapter. Describe characteristics of information systems for each.
Define information silo, and explain how such silos come into existence. When do such silos become a problem? Name and describe five common functional applications. Describe data that are likely
Explain two major reasons why it is expensive to develop enterprise information systems in-house. Explain the advantages of inherent processes. Define and differentiate among CRM, ERP, and EAI.
Describe information silos that exist among healthcare providers, health clubs, and individuals with regard to patient exercise data. Describe problems that those silos create. Explain how the system
Describe how you can benefit from the information in this chapter. Suppose a job interviewer asked you, “What do you know about ERP?” How would you respond? What if the question were, "How does
Assume your team is in charge of the implementation of the system you recommend in your answer to question 7-7. Describe how each of the four challenges discussed in Q3 pertain to this
Is the information system you proposed in your answer to question 7-6 of Collaboration Exercise 7 an application of CRM, ERP, or EAI? If so, which one and why? If not, explain why not. Go to
Explain how the four sources of challenge discussed in Q3 would pertain to the implementation of the PRIDE system. Give specific examples of each. In general, do you think these challenges are more

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