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1. One of the perennial problems of strategy for organizations has been:
Lack of frameworks
Expanding scope
Poor alignment between business and IT strategies
Setting strategic goals
2. What is the best way to develop new capabilities?
Let business lead IT strategy
Let IT lead business strategy
Let both strategies lead simultaneously
Co-evolve business and IT strategies
3. __________ can ensure that business and IT strategies work well together:
Strategic goals
Strategic alignment
Strategy seminars
Strategic principles
4. Most formal IT plans could not support enterprise strategy because they were too focused on:
Tactical issues
Strategic issues
Business issues
IT issues
5. The use of information-processing capabilities to drive down transaction costs to near zero, threatening traditional value propositions and shaving profit margins is an example of?
Strategic use of IT
Competing on efficiencies
Business value
Tactical goals
6. ______________ need to take responsibility and leadership in technology investment and implementation.
IT executives
CIO
CEO
Business executives
7. A business model explains:
Business rules
How different pieces of the business fit together
IT systems
Business processes
8. One of the most important distinguishing factors between companies that get high business value from their IT investment and those that don't is that:
senior managers in high-performing companies take a leadership role in IT decision-making
senior managers in high-performing companies do not take a leadership role in IT decision-making
IT managers in high-performing companies take a leadership role in IT decision-making
IT managers in high-performing companies do not take a leadership role in IT decision-making
9. A sign of effective strategizing is:
Continuous and dynamic synchronization of capabilities
Leading business with IT capabilities
Designing effective business plans
Aligning business and strategy only once
10. Match the following IT initiatives with their descriptions:
Business improvement
Business enabling
Business opportunities
Opportunity leverage
Infrastructure
Choose One for each:
help organizations streamline their processes and save substantial amounts of money by eliminating unnecessary or duplicate activities or empowering customers/suppliers to self-manage transactions with a company
small-scale, experimental initiatives designed to test the viability of new concepts or technologies
hardware, software, middleware, communications, and data available that affect an organizations capacity to build new capabilities.
operationalizes, scales up, or leverages successful strategic experiments or prototypes.
projects that extend or transform how a company does business