Exam 13: Collaboration Information Systems for Decision Making

Sean is in charge of setting up the new IT department at his firm.He allots the budget, and decides the number of analysts and technicians that would be required to set up the department.Sean's decisions in this case are ________.

________ decisions are those that support day-to-day activities, such as the number of widgets to order from a particular vendor.

Explain the four phases of project management.

Multiple versions of a document are created when a group of people collaboratively work on it to achieve a common goal.

Judy heads the marketing department, which has the maximum number of employees in her organization.To improve the efficiency of the employees, Judy forms ten teams and gives each one a different target.At the end of the quarter, the most successful team would be chosen and awarded.Which of the following primary criteria should Judy use to judge the success of the teams?

In project management, setting the ground rules for a project and its team is the fundamental purpose of the ________ phase.

The ________ phase of project management requires a team to document its results, document information for future teams, close down the project, and disband the team.

Neal heads the sales team in his organization.He has observed a decline in the performance of a few members in the team, and needs to give them critical feedback.Which of the following should Neal keep in mind while providing feedback?

Most collaboration systems are hosted on client computers.

An extremely critical group cannot collaborate effectively.

What are the three levels of decision making?

Decisions at the operational level tend to be unstructured.

________ decisions are those that support broad-scope, organizational issues.

The primary function of a collaboration information system is information security.

Business professionals are primarily concerned about the successful outcome of collaboration.

It is important for team members to have different ideas and opinions and to express them to each other.

Hanna, a project manager at Rinehart Inc., adds additional resources to a new project that has insufficient resources to meet its tight schedules.In this case, Hanna is in the ________ phase of project management.

In project management, accomplishing tasks on time is the objective of the ________ phase.

Being informed is considered the most fundamental collaboration purpose because ________.

Listed below are perspectives of different people working as a team.Which of the following approaches to teamwork will provide the best results?