Q1 : Short Notes

1)Primary Strategy for achieving competitive advantage

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Cost Leadership
Focus
………………………..………………………..
………………………..………………………..
Differentiation

2)IS Infrastructure Components

….……………………………………………..
Hardware
….…………………………………………….
Software
….…………………………………………….
Data
….……………………………………………
Network

3)Three Managerial Level

….……………………………………………..
culture
….……………………………………………..
Control
….……………………………………………..
organizational

4) Focus strategy has two variants

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Cost Focus

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Differntiation focus

5)IS Strategy Triangle

….…………………………………
Business Strategy

…………………………………….
Information Strategy

……………………………………..
Organization Strategy

5)Social Business Strategy

……………………………………………….
Innovation
………………………………………………..
Collaboration
………………………………………………..
Engagement

7)Functions of business Strategy

………………………………………………….
Competition

…………………………………………………
Positioning
…………………………………………………
Capabilities
Q2: Complete

Strategy - Business Strategy(2) - Business Model - Hypercompetition Model

- Innovation - Engagement - collaboration - Information Systems Strategy
Triangle(2) - Business Diamond - Focus - Differentiation - IS -
Cost Leadership - Mission - Organization Strategy -social Business Strategy
- Managerial Level - Organization Variable - Control Variable - Culture
Variable - IS Strategy

Managerial Lever
1) ….……………………….. variables used by decision makers to effect
changes in their organizations.

2)……………………………allows
Focus
an organization to limit its scope to a
narrower segment of the market and tailor its offerings to that group of
customers.

3)…………………………….
Cultural Variable comprise the values of the organization

4)…………………………….. introduced by Harold Leavitt, identifies the crucial

BUSINESS Diamond

components of an organization’s plan as its information/control, people,

structure, tasks
Innovation
5)……………………: Using social IT to identify, describe, prioritize, and
create new ideas for the enterprise

6)……………………….
Business Modelingincludes advertising , license , subscription .

7)………………..
Strategy Starts with mission

8) ……………………………
differentiation : the organization qualifies its
product or service in a way that allows it to appear unique in
the marketplace

9)……………..
Engagement
Using social IT to involve stakeholders in the traditional
business of the enterprise.

10)………………….
IS Strategy
is the plan an organization uses to provide information
services.
11)……………..
IS allows a company to implement its business strategy

12)…………………
Social a plan of how the firm will use social IT, aligned
Business Strategy
with organization strategy and IS strategy.
Mission
13)…………….. a clear and compelling statement that unifies an
organization’s effort and describes what the firm is all about.
Information Systems Strategy
14) ………………………..
Triangle – a framework that relates
business strategy with IS strategy and organizational strategy.
Business
15)…………………..
Strategy a plan articulating where a business seeks to go
and how it expects to get there.

16) ………………………
Collaboration
Using social IT to extend the reach of stakeholders,
both employees and those outside the enterprise walls.
Hypercompetition Model
17) ……………………………suggest that the speed and aggressiveness of
the moves and countermoves in any given market create an
environment in which advantages are rapidly created and eroded.
Organization
18)………………includes
Strategy the organization’s design as well as the choices
it makes to define, set up, coordinate, and control its work processes
Strategy
19)………………… - a coordinated set of actions to fulfill objectives,
purposes, and goals.
Control
20)……………………
Variables include: availability of data, nature and quality of
planning, effectiveness of performance measurement and evaluation
systems to do good work
Organization
21)…………………..
Variable include:Decision rights, business processes, formal
reporting relationships, and informal networks

22)…………………….
Cost Leadership - when the organization aims to be the lowest cost
producer in the marketplace.
Q3: Choose

1) …………………… are from strategic advantage

a)Industry Wide & Particular Segment only
b)Uniqueness Perceived by customer & Low cost position
c) Uniqueness Perceived by customer &Industry Wide
d) Low cost position & Particular Segment only

2) …………………… are from strategic Target

a)Industry Wide & Particular Segment only
b)Uniqueness Perceived by customer & Low cost position
c) Uniqueness Perceived by customer &Industry Wide
d) Low cost position & Particular Segment only

3)…………………. is the physical means by which information is exchanged

among hardware components, such as through a modem and dial-up
network or through a private digital network.
a)Hardware
b)Network
c)Software k
d)Data

4)………………,such as the programs used to do business, to manage the

computer itself, and to communicate between systems.
a)Hardware
b)Network
c)Software
d)Data

5)…………..,, such as desktop units and servers.

a)Hardware
b)Network
c)Software
d)Data
6)…………...includes the bits and bytes stored in the system.
a)Hardware
b)Network
c)Software
d)Data

7)……………….. identifies the crucial components of an organization’s plan

as its information/control, people, structure, and tasks
a)business strategy
b)business diamond
c)business modeling
d)strategy

8)………………..focus on creating competitive advantage,

a)Porter Model
b)Hypercompetition model

9)……………………… will drive all other strategies

a)business strategy
b)business diamond
c)business modeling
d)strategy

10)………… is a set of actions to fulfill of goals

a)business strategy
b)business diamond
c)business modeling
d)strategy