Exam 1: B: Organizations, Processes, and Information Systems

The silo effect refers to the integrated and the cross-functional nature of business processes.

The information revolution refers to the increased use of communication and computer technologies to create,deliver,and use information.

People in organizations are becoming more dependent on information.

Knowledge workers are those who work in information systems departments of global companies.

In a manual (paper-based)process,information is communicated between functional areas using an enterprise system.

Due to globalization,organizations often locate parts of their operations in different countries.

Knowledge workers exist in all parts of an organization.

Functional Information Systems only support the activities of specific areas of the business.

One consequence of globalization is increased competition.

Information and communication technologies help organization coordinate their global operations.

The information revolution has a very limited role in globalization.

Task workers perform routine,well defined work.

Unstructured information is well defined and its source is known.

Structured information is well defined and its source is known.

Due to globalization,organizations tend to locate their operations in one country.

The silo effect refers to be losing sight of the big picture of the process and being narrowly focused on a task.