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One thing that bothered me was that my customer’s project manager was accustomed to phoning my team’s design engineers and ordering minor variations to the specifications without my knowledge. With reference to the case study, briefly explain the phenomenon which the project was experiencing
Why are stakeholder relationships important, and what challenges and opportunities are presented by stakeholders? (25)
Compare Porter's three generic strategies.
If IBM decides to finance bnon current assets with long term financing and current assets are financed with short term funds which approach to short term financing are they using
X University has of late expanded very rapidly introducing a number of programmes and increasing student intake capacity. It has recently computerized its examination process based on some off-the-shelf software. The library had already been computerized a couple of years back using a freely distributed Library Automation System. Daily cash transactions are also handled by computers in the Finance and Accounting Division, using accounting software. For further improvement of efficiency, the new governing body of the University have entrusted the task of developing an MIS for the University to a Software Company.
All these developments were welcomed by a cross-section of the University Community except a few. One of them is a faculty member at the Management Science Department who commented that the University is burdening itself with too many independent information systems.
a) Do you agree with the faculty member? Give reasons
What do you understand by Integrated Information System, the faculty member is talking about? Elaborate in the context of the Ogom University.
In the context of a manufacturing company:
a) Define what is meant by ‘structured’ and ‘unstructured’ decision making in relation
to organizational management levels. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.
(6 marks)
b) Give examples of sources of data that might be used by the company, and outline the
stages by which this data might become information useful in decision making.
(7 marks)
c) Describe recent developments in IT which have improved access to information for
management decision makers. (7 marks)
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b) Provide and explain a set of key guidelines that a business might adopt in order to be
well-placed to deal with IS security breaches. (10 marks)
intelligence and other techniques to extract useful information from large databases. Under
this wide definition most types of data analysis can be classified as data mining. It is used to
identify patterns or trends in the data in data warehouses which can be used for improved profit.
Particular data mining techniques include: -
i. Identifying associations
ii. Identifying sequences
iii. Classification
iv. Clustering
v. Modelling
Using practical examples, discuss in details the use and application each of the data mining
technique mentioned above. (20 Marks)
