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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems
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Management Information Systems (MIS) Practice Test: Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems
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1. A ________ is a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains to produce a product or service for a market collectively.
2. ________ systems are those in which development occurs at the home base but operations are handed over to autonomous units in foreign locations.
3. The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a business objective are called:
4. Which of the following illustrates the use of information systems to focus on market niche?
5. The primary activities of a firm include:
6. Benchmarking:
7. Which of the following can force a business and its competitors to compete on price alone?
8. Which industries did the first wave of e-commerce transform?
9. The value chain model:
10. ________ systems are those in which each foreign unit designs its own unique information system solutions.
11. When a firm provides a specialized product or service for a narrow target market better than competitors, they are using a:
12. Many reengineering projects do not achieve breakthrough gains in performance because:
13. Globalization allows:
14. An information system can enable a company to focus on a market niche through:
15. ________ systems are those in which systems development and operation occur totally at the domestic home base.
16. ________ is the ability to offer individually tailored products or services using the same production resources as bulk production.
17. Streamlining the steps taken to complete a business task more efficiently is called:
18. Which competitive force best categorizes the threat Netflix posed to Blockbuster?
19. Wal-Mart's continuous replenishment system allows it to:
20. Which of the following illustrates the use of information systems to strengthen customer and supplier intimacy?
21. The Internet raises the bargaining power of customers by:
22. A substitute product of most concern for a cable TV distributor is:
23. The ________ strategy is characterized by heavy centralization of corporate activities in the home country of origin.
24. Hilton Hotels' use of customer information software to identify the most profitable customers to direct services to is an example of using information systems to:
25. A firm can exercise greater control over its suppliers by having:

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