Chapter 13 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/6/2013).

 

Total quality management (TQM)

Business process redesign

Explain Business Process Management and the categories of tools discussed on 493-494

Systems analysis

Feasibility study

Information requirements

Systems design

Programming stage of systems development

Testing stage (and different types of testing discussed) of the Systems development process

Conversion and the 4 different strategies discussed

Documentation

Production

Maintenance

Structured methodologies

Data flow diagram (DFD)

Object-oriented development

Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)

Systems life cycle

Prototypes and prototyping

Request for proposal (RFP)

Different types of outsourcing discussed in the chapter

Rapid application development (RAD)

Joint application development (JAD)

Agile development

Component-based development

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 13 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

 

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Chapter 12 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/6/2013).

 

Structured decisions
Unstructured decisions
Semistructured decisions
List and explain the four stages in the decision-making process
List and explain the different information quality dimensions (see table 12-3 on page 460)
Business intelligence
Explain the six elements in the business intelligence environment
Predictive analytics
Data visualization
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Sensitivity analysis
Pivot table
Balanced scorecard method
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
Business performance management (BPM)
Drill-down
Group decision-support systems (GDSS)

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 12 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

 

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Chapter 11 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/5/2013).

 

Knowledge

Wisdom

Tacit knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Knowledge management (and different features)

Knowledge management systems - different types

Structured knowledge

Semistructured knowledge

Unstructured knowledge

Enterprise content management system

Learning management system (LMS)

Knowledge worker

Knowledge work systems - define all three different types discussed in the chapter

Augmented reality

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Expert system

Case-based reasoning

Fuzzy logic

Neural network

Genetic algorithm

Intelligent agents

Agent-based modeling

 

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

 

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Chapter 10 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/4/2013).

 

Explain the eight unique features of e-commerce

Price discrimination

Price transparency

Cost transparency

Menu costs

Digital goods

Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce

Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce

Portal

E-tailer

Content provider

Transaction broker

Market creator

Service provider

Community provider

Advertising revenue model

Sales revenue model

Free/Freemium revenue model

Transaction fee revenue model

Affiliate revenue model

Crowdsourcing

Longtail marketing

Behavioral targeting

Electronic data interchange (EDI)

Explain building vs outsourcing a website

 

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 10 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

 

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Chapter 9 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/4/2013).

 

Enterprise software

Supply chain

Supply Chain Management (SCM) software

Just-in-time strategy

Demand planning

Bullwhip effect

Push-based model

Pull-based model

Employee Relationship Management (ERM)

Partner Relationship Management (PRM)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software

Operational CRM

Analytical CRM

Sales Force Automation (SFA)

Cross-selling

Churn rate

Customer lifetime value (CLTV)

 

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 9 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

 

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Chapter 8 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 6/3/2013).

 

Controls (and the different types discussed in the chapter - general and application controls)

Types of malicious software (malware, virus, worms, trojan horses, spyware, and keylogger) - define all

Hackers

Spoofing

Sniffer

Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack

Distributed denial of service attack (DDoS)

Botnet

Identity theft

Phishing

Pharming

Click fraud

Social engineering

Bugs

Computer forensics

Risk assessment

Acceptable use policy (AUP)

Disaster recovery planning

Business continuity planning

Smart card

Biometric authentication

Firewall

Secure socket layer (SSL)

Public key encryption (PKE)

Online transaction processing (OLTP)

Digital certificate

Fault-tolerant computer systems

 

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citation at the end of your blog post.

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 8 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

 

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Chapter 7 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/30/2013).

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

Network
Hub
Switch
Router
Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP)
Local Area Network (LAN)
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Physical transmission media (define and identify the different types)
Wireless transmission media
Bandwidth
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Digital subscriber link (DSL)
Domain name system (DNS)
File transfer protocol (FTP)
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Unified communications
Virtual private network (VPN)
Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
Uniform resource locator (URL)
Search engine
Web 2.0 (and some of the different related technologies)
Web 3.0
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

 

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Chapter 6 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/29/2013).

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

Attribute

Field

Record

File

Entity

Database

Database Management System (DBMS) (also describe the logical view vs physical view of data)

Relational DBMS

Key fields - explain what primary and foreign keys are

Data dictionary

Data definition

Referential integrity

Normalization

Entity-relationship diagram

Data warehouse

Data mart

Online analytical processing (OLAP)

Data mining (also include the types of information obtainable from data mining)

Information policy

Data cleansing

Query

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Chapter 5 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/28/2013).

 

 

 

IT Infrastructure

Client/server computing

Moore's Law

Law of Mass Digital Storage

Metcalfe's Law

Technology standards (and include some examples from chart on page 175)

7 components for IT infrastructure (beginning on page176)

Legacy system

Grid computing

Virtualization

Green computing

Cloud computing (also include definition of public vs private cloud)

Open source software

Service Oriented architecture (SOA)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Mashup

Scalability

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 5 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

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Chapter 4 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/23/2013).

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

Ethics

Five moral dimensions of the information age

Profiling

Responsibility

Liababilty

Accountability

Informed consent

Cookies

Spyware

Safe harbor

Intellectual property

Trade secret

Copyright

Patents

Computer Crime

Computer abuse

Digital divide

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 4 reading that you
found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and
any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any
of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined
above).

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Chapter 3 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the
following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/23/2013).

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the
textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA
citation at the end of your blog post.

Disruptive technologies

Organization

Routines

Features of organizations (explain subheadings of this section of the text on pages 84-89)

Transaction costs

Porter's Competitive forces model (define all 5 forces)

Information system strategies for dealing with competitive forces (define all 4)

Support activities

Primary activities

Value chain

Value web

Core competency

Strategic transitions

Business Ecosystem

 

Next, identify and explain a concept from the Chapter 3 reading that you found interesting and discuss what it is, why you found it interesting, and any questions or comments you have about the concept. (This can be from any of your reading of the chapter - not limited to just the terms you defined above).

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Chapter 2 Blog

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/22/2013).

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA citation at the end of your blog post.

Business Intelligence
Business Process (different functional areas)
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)
Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Decision Support System (DSS)
Digital Dashboard
E-Business
E-Commerce
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)

 

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Chapter 1 Blog Post

For your blog post, read the chapter and then define and explain the following terms: (Due by 12 p.m. on 5/22/2013).

 

These terms need to be defined and explained in your own words (using the textbook as your reference and guide). Be sure to include the textbook APA citation at the end of your blog post.

Business process

Key corporate assets of a business

Business model

Complementary assets

Information technology

Data

Information

Management Information Systems

Information systems literacy

Knowledge worker

Computer literacy

Business function

Hardware

Software

Sociotechnical approach of information systems

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