Questions and Answers of Experiencing MIS

Q5 How do I create a report?
Q1 Why use Excel and Access together?
Q2 What is import/export?
Q3 How can you create graphs with Excel?
Q4 How can you create group totals in Access?
Q5 How can you use Excel to graph Access data?
Q6 How can you use Access to report Excel data?
Q7 How can you combine Excel and Access to analyze data?
Create a spreadsheet of sample college expenses.Question Place a grid in your spreadsheet that has three rows—Rent, Food, Entertainment—and three columns—2007, 2008, 2009. Enter realistic, but
Q1. What is an information system?
Q2 What is MIS?
Q3_ How does IS differ from IT?
Q4 How do successful business professionals use IS?
Q5 What new opportunities for IS are developing today?
Q6 What is your role in IS security?
3. Consider the questions in situations C and D. Do your answers|differ?W ould you lie in one case and not in the ether?W hyo OfL:why not? — ]
.. Consider the question in. ciao E. What is the essential difference between situations A through D and situation E? Suppose you had to justify your behavior in situation E. How would you argue? Do
Ins.i tuations A throughD , if you access the information you have one ;‘ nothing illegal. You were the passive recipient. Even for item E, although you undoubtedly violated your company’s
. Summarize your beliefs about ‘proper conduct when you receive misdirected information.
1. Using your own knowledge and opinions as well as those listed in Figure 1-4 (page 15), describe three misconceptions of the purpose of this class. In your own words, describe what you think the
3. Consider costs of a system in light of the five components:costs to buy and maintain the hardware;costs to develop or acquire licenses to the software programs and costs to maintain them; costs to
Over the lifetime of a system, many experts believe that the single most expensive component is people. Does this belief seem logical to you? Explain why you agree or disagree.
Consider a poorly developed system that does not meet its defined requirements. The needs of the business do not go away, but they do not conform themselves to the characteristics of the poorly built
2. Even though the cost of data communication and data storage is very low, for the volume at which YouTube operates they are still substantial expenses. .How did YouTube fund these expenses? (Search
3. How does YouTube (now owned by Google) earn revenue?Using the cases of YouTube, Getty Images, and Media Partners as a guide, answer the following questions:
4. Choose a large corporation located in the geographic vicinity of your college or university. In what ways is it already taking advantage of the low cost of data communication and data storage?
5. Asateam, define innovation.
6. Using the corporation you identified in question 4 and your team’s definition of innovation in question
5, identify three innovative ways that the corporation could take advantage of the low cost of data communication and storage.
7. Create an outline of the reasoning that you and your fellow team members could use in a job interview.Assume you wish to demonstrate a knowledge of the power of emerging technology as well as your
1. Why did the Oversight Board place leadership and ownership of the modernization program on the business units? Why did it not place these responsibilities on the Information Technology Services
2. Why did the Oversight Board place the responsibility for controlling scope changes on the business units?Why was this responsibility not given to the BSM? To ITS? To Computer Sciences Corporation?
3. The second recommendation is a difficult assignment, especially considering the size of the IRS and the complexity of the project. How does one go about creating “an environment of trust,
4. The problem in question 3 involves, at most, a few hundred people and a few sites. The IRS problem involves 100,000 people and over 1,000 sites. How would you modify your answer to question 3 for
5. If the existing system works (which apparently it does), why is the BSM needed? Why fix a system that works?
Q1 What are typical interorganizational processes?
Q2 What is a supply chain?
Q3 What factors affect supply chain performance?
Q4 How does supply chain profitability differ from organizational profitability?
Q5 What is the bullwhip effect?
Q6 How do information systems affect supply chain performance?
1. Create a process diagram for the interorganizational process that exists to process debit card payments at a grocery store. Create separate swim lanes for the customer, the store, and the
Diagram the interorganizational process between Majestic and its food supplier (for simplicity, assume just one). Start with Figure 7-5 on page 168 as a guide, but document lowerlevel processes as
3. Consider the supply chain for Amazon.com.Assume that Amazon.com buys books directly from sufficient detail so that your process includes the processing of a PIN.
2. So far we have ignored the need to procure food for raft trips at Majestic. However, providing healthy publishers and also buys from book distributors.Ignore used book sales.a. Diagram this supply
Explain how Amazon.com can use SOA architecture.
Explain why exposing a portion of its information system as services provides time and cost savings to Amazon.com.Search the Web for the topic “Amazon.com Web Services.” Go to the page that
Q1 How can you obtain Innov8?
Q2 How should you play Innov8?
Q3 What is the reality of business simulations?
Q4 Should you take documents from coworkers' desktops?
1. Based on your knowledge, gained from both this course and the experience of playing Innov8, answer the following questions. Use your own words and assume you are talking to a student friend who's
2. Considering the key meeting of executives that you attend mid-way through the game:a. What is the purpose of this meeting?b. What decisions did you make about the structure of the business
3. Summarize the strategy that you used in allocating resources in order to win the game. To what extent, if any, do you think this strategy would generalize to other business situations?
4. Inthe final game panel, you can adjust resources by adding or removing different classes of personnel as well as outsourcing work to another company. You do so by clicking a button and watching a
5. Summarize the best and worst features of this game.Summarize what you learned. Is such a game a better way of learning than reading a textbook? Why or why not? How do you think Innov8 could be
6. Would you recommend this game to other business students? Why or why not?
Q1 What value does social networking add to business?
Q2 How can businesses utilize social networking groups?
Q3 How can businesses utilize social networking applications?
Q4 What are business applications for user-generated content?
Q5 What are the risks of using social networking and user- generated content?
1. Go to your own Facebook or MySpace account and demonstrate and describe how N:M communication pertains to your page. Give an example of feedback and iteration that has happened in some interaction
Q1 What is a database marketing opportunity?
Q2 How does RFM analysis classify customers?
Q3 How does market-basket analysis identify cross-selling opportunities?
Q4 How do decision trees identify market segments?
Describe a use for RFM analysis other than one discussed in this chapter extension. What business problem are you addressing? Assume a competitive strategy for the organization using your
Describe an application for market-basket analysis other than for a dive shop. Explain how you would use the knowledge that two products have a lift of explain how you would use the knowledge that
5. Read the Home Depot case on page 228. Explain how you could adapt the RFM analysis technique to classify models of washers and dryers. How would the RFM analysis help you quickly identify poorly
Q1 How do reporting systems create information?
Q2 What are the components and characteristics of reporting systems?
03 How are reports authored, managed, and delivered?
04 How are OLAP reports dynamic?identifying losing models? Why or why not? As a buyer, what is the chief value of this report to you?
05 Dee Clark, the marketing manager at Emerson Pharmaceuticals, wants to place an OLAP report on her blog. Assume each salesperson reports to a district manager, each district manager reports to one
Q1 How does systems development vary according to project scale?
Q2 What is a typical small-scale project?
Q3 How does the systems definition phase apply to BBB?
Q4 How does the requirements phase apply to BBB?
Q5 How do design and implementation phases apply to BBB?
Q6 How does the maintenance phase apply to BBB?
Q7 What can you learn from the BBB case?
1. Ona stretch of remote highway, a car slides off the road in a snowstorm. A power line runs along the highway. A driver in a car behind stares incredulously as the car steers off the road and
2. “Baloney, this is just psychobabble. It may work for race-car drivers, but race-car driving takes different skills than job hunting.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why
3. Consider the following statement made bya retired senior manager:“As a general rule, | think you find in your employees whatever you look for. If you think they’re lazy and incompetent,
4. In your own words, describe how the race-car driver's strategy applies to systems development. What are some of the posts to be avoided? Where should users place their attention? Where should
Reflect on the experience of Dee Clark at Emerson Pharmaceuticals. Dee did not use (or even know about) the SDLC. Cast her project into the SDLC framework. What work should she have done at each
Suppose you are the commissioner of a city softball league consisting of 16 teams, and each team has a roster of up to 15 players. Teams also have two to three coaches. Assume you want to create a
Suppose you are the director of asummer camp for middle-school children. Assume the camp has fallen on hard times, the facilities have been poorly maintained, and attendance at the camp has been
Suppose you sell yachts for a small yacht broker. Your company specializes in selling yachts in the $150,000 to $500,000 range. You are the regional dealer for a manufacturer of yachts in this
You have thought about developing your own personal database, and you know that it would help you identify which of your customers are interested in particular boats. Your own personal database would
Q1 What character- izes large-scale information systems development projects?
Q2 What are the trade-offs in requirements, cost, and time?
Q3 What is the PMBOK Guide for project management?
Q4 How does a work-breakdown structure drive project management?
Q5 What is the biggest challenge for planning a large-scale systems development project?
Q6 What are the biggest challenges for managing a large-scale systems development project?
Q7 What is the single most important task for users on a large-scale systems development project?
i. Consider two projects: one to upgrade the Web sites for MRV (see the introduction to Chapter 10, page 244) and the second to upgrade the reservations system for United Airlines. Explain how the
Consider the Web development project at MRV.Explain the trade-offs that can be made among requirements, cost, and schedule. For a given set of requirements, explain how cost and schedule can be

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