Exam 13: The International Dimension

The global economy has intensified rivalry by increasing product and vendor choices and by accelerating the flow of information about price, product, availability, and service.

Which of the following describes the bullwhip effect?

The principal planning task for the IT department in an organization is to ________.

List the issues that need to be addressed when localizing a computer program.

A supply chain is a network of organizations and facilities that transforms raw materials into products delivered to customers.

How can information reduce or eliminate the bullwhip effect?

Unlike business processes, information systems procedures need not reflect local cultural values and norms.

As long as there is an adequate data interface between two information systems that are in locations that are diverse in terms of business practices and language, they can operate independently, sharing data when necessary.

Briefly explain the two major ways in which thinking about competitive strategies has changed in today's global economy.

When localizing a computer program, which of the following must a firm NOT do?

How are international business processes likely to be developed to overcome the present challenges of international cross-functional applications?

To overcome challenges in international information systems, some organizations develop alternative versions of the system that support different processes in different countries.This results in ________.

Regarding safeguards, technical and data safeguards change for international information systems.

The bullwhip effect increases the overall profitability of the supply chain.

Because an order processing functional system located in, say, the United States is independent of the manufacturing systems located in, say, Taiwan, it implies that ________.

International outsourcing is most advantageous ________.

Explain how managing a global IS development project will involve challenges in the areas of time, quality, and costs.

International organizations have more IS and IT assets, and those assets are exposed to more risk and greater uncertainty.

If the distributed database divides the database into nonoverlapping segments, it is called a ________ database.

The business processes that support the competitive strategies of the multinational companies tend to be simpler and easier to implement, as they are isolated from another.