Fichas
Chapter 12 Flash Cards
Fichas del conjunto (10)
- 1Black BoxDefined as an operation whose exact nature cannot be observed
- 2Cost structureThe relative composition of an organization fixed and variable cost.
- 3Enterprise resource planning (ERP)A packaged software program that allows a company to automate and integrate the majority of its business processes, share common data and practices across the entire enterprise and produce and access information in a real-time environment.
- 4Gap AnalysisThe study of the differences between the information provided by two information systems to ascertain the deficiencies within the system
- 5Management Control Systeman information system that helps managers gather information about actual organization
- 6Management Information System (MIS)a structure of interrelated elements that collects, organizes, and communicates data to managers so they may plan, control, evaluate performance, and make decisions; emphasizes internal demands for information; commonly computerized for ease of access to information, reliability of input and processing, and ability to simulate outcomes of alternative situations.
- 7Organizational CultureThe set of basic assumptions about the organization and its goals and ways of doing business; a system of shared values about what is important and beliefs about how things get accomplished; provides a framework that organizes and directs employee behavior at work.
- 8Organizational forman entity's legal nature
- 9Profit Sharingan incentive payment to employees that is contingent on organizational or individual performance.
- 10radio frequency identificationan advanced information technology that uses exceptionally small flakes of silicon to transmit a code for the item to which the technology is attached.