Exam 4: Evaluating a Companys Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness

Industry experts say the power consumption of ________________ is doubling every five years or so, making them one of the fastest-growing drags on energy in the nation.

Enterprise resource planning ____________ all departments and functions through an organization into a single IT system so that employees can make enterprise-wide decisions by viewing enterprise-wide information on all business operations.

Which component is a credit-management feature typically included?

Business intelligence, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and __________ are the four most common extended ERP components.

Monitoring credit limit whenever a customer places a new order or sends in a payment is a function of the:

___________________________ allows people to exchange short public messages called tweets to give others status updates on what's happening in their lives at the moment.

The City of Winnipeg's ERP system could not provide for the development of applications such as competency management and career planning.

Shell Canada's ERP system handles operations for:

Identify and describe the two primary features of e-business components.

Mobility and wireless capabilities are the tools of the virtual workforce and include all except:

____________ manages the transportation and storage of goods.

Due to the City of Winnipeg's complexity, its new ERP system was unable to integrate the city's systems across all of its 14 departments.

According to Gartner Research, the average __________ rate for an ERP project is 66 percent.

Business intelligence is both a core and extended ERP component.

Production and materials management components handle the various aspects of production planning and execution such as __________ forecasting, production scheduling, job cost accounting, and quality control.

The current impetus to innovate comes from the need to ____________________________.

What is the framework of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments?

________________________ is a dimension of social responsibility that includes everything from hiring minority workers to making safe products.

Which application's primary business benefits include market demand, resource and capacity constraints, and real-time scheduling?

Sustainable, or "green," IT describes the manufacture, management, use, and disposal of information technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment, which is a critical part of a corporation's responsibility.