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| Business/IT planning process |
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| Focuses on discovering innovative approaches to satisfying a company's customer value and business value goals with the support of IT. |
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| Concerned with the use of hardware, software, network, and IS personnel resources within the corporate or business unit. |
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| Management information technology |
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| Managing business/IT planning and the IS function within a company. |
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| A conceptual design, or blueprint, of an organization's IS/IT functions, hardware, and software created by a strategic business/IT planning process. |
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| Centralization or decentralization of IT |
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| Many organizations have both centralized and decentralized IT units. |
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| Managing the creation and implementation of new business applications. |
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| End users need liaisons, consulting, and training services. |
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| Involves recruiting, training, and retaining qualified IS personnel. |
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| Rapidly changing technological developments must be anticipated, identified, and implemented. |
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| A relocation of an organization's business processes (including production.manufacturing) to a lower-cost location, usually overseas. |
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| Corporate locations for computer system operations. |
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| Chief information officer |
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| The executive responsible for strategic business/IT planning and IT management. |
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| The executive in charge of researching and implementing new information technologies. |
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| System performance monitor |
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| Software that helps monitor and control computer systems in a data center. |
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| The cost of IS services may be allocated back to end users. |
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| Many business firms are replacing their mainframe systems with networked PCs and servers. |
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| The purchase of goods or services from third-party partners that were previously provided internally. |
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| Global information technology management |
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| Managing IT to support a company's international business operations. |
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| A business depends heavily on its information systems and Internet technologies to help it integrate its global business activities. |
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| Global customer, products, operations, resources, and collaboration. |
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| Global telecommunications networks like the Internet move data across national boundaries. |
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| Systems development issues |
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| Agreement is needed for personal information in corporate databases withing a host country are a top concern. |
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| Security requirements for personal information in corporate databases within a host country are a top concern. |
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| Business managers should oversee IT decision making and projects that are critical to their business units' success. |
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