Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today
1) Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 25 percent a
year. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3 Type: TF Page Ref: 5
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
2) The cloud computing platform is a flexible collection of computers on the Internet designed to
perform tasks traditionally performed on corporate computers.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
3) Digital firms sense and respond to their environments far more rapidly than traditional firms, giving
them more flexibility to survive in turbulent times.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 10
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
4) Information technology (IT) can be defined technically as a set of interrelated components that
collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an
organization.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 12
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
5) Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the organization are called
intranets. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 17
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
6) The World Wide Web is the exact same thing as the
Internet. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 17
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
7) As managers, most students will work for firms that are intensively using information systems
and making large investments in information technology.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 5
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
8) Cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPhones, e-mail, and online conferencing over the Internet have not
yet become essential tools of business.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
9) Supply chains have become more fast-paced, with companies of all sizes depending on just-in-time
inventory to reduce their overhead costs and get to market faster.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
10) New industries appear, old ones decline, and successful firms are those that learn how to use the
new technologies.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 10
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
11) Less powerful data analytics and interactive dashboards provide real-time performance
information to managers to enhance management control and decision making.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
12) Managers adopt millions of mobile tools such as smartphones and mobile Internet devices to
accelerate decision making and improve performance.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
13) Web 2.0 applications are not widely adopted by
firms. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
14) In 2005, journalist Thomas Friedman wrote an influential book declaring the world was now "flat,"
by which he meant that the Internet and global communications had greatly increased the economic and
cultural advantages of developed countries.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 7
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
15) In the past decade, Canada gained many manufacturing jobs from offshore, low-wage
producers. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 7
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
16) The emergence of the Internet into a full-blown international communications system has
drastically increased the costs of operating and transacting on a global scale.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 9
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
17) Middle management makes long-range strategic decisions about products and services and ensures
the financial performance of the firm.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
18) Production or service workers actually produce the product and deliver the service.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
19) Business organizations are hierarchies consisting of three principal levels: senior
management, middle management, and operational management.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
20) Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of
business processes.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
21) Recent research on business information technology investment indicates that firms that support
their technology investments with investments in complementary assets receive superior returns.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 21
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
22) The value of investments in information technology depends to a large extent on
complementary investments in management and organization.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 21
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
23) The study of information systems is a single disciplinary
field. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 23
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.3 Complementary Assets: Organizational Capital and the Right Business Model
24) Issues such as strategic business integration, design, implementation, utilization, and
management are explored fully with the models used in the technical approach.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 23
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.3 Complementary Assets: Organizational Capital and the Right Business Model
Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today
1) Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 25 percent a
year. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3 Type: TF Page Ref: 5
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
2) The cloud computing platform is a flexible collection of computers on the Internet designed to
perform tasks traditionally performed on corporate computers.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
3) Digital firms sense and respond to their environments far more rapidly than traditional firms, giving
them more flexibility to survive in turbulent times.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 10
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
4) Information technology (IT) can be defined technically as a set of interrelated components that
collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an
organization.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 12
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
5) Private intranets extended to authorized users outside the organization are called
intranets. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 17
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
6) The World Wide Web is the exact same thing as the
Internet. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 17
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
7) As managers, most students will work for firms that are intensively using information systems
and making large investments in information technology.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 5
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
8) Cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPhones, e-mail, and online conferencing over the Internet have not
yet become essential tools of business.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
9) Supply chains have become more fast-paced, with companies of all sizes depending on just-in-time
inventory to reduce their overhead costs and get to market faster.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
10) New industries appear, old ones decline, and successful firms are those that learn how to use the
new technologies.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 10
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
11) Less powerful data analytics and interactive dashboards provide real-time performance
information to managers to enhance management control and decision making.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
12) Managers adopt millions of mobile tools such as smartphones and mobile Internet devices to
accelerate decision making and improve performance.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
13) Web 2.0 applications are not widely adopted by
firms. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 6
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
14) In 2005, journalist Thomas Friedman wrote an influential book declaring the world was now "flat,"
by which he meant that the Internet and global communications had greatly increased the economic and
cultural advantages of developed countries.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 7
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
15) In the past decade, Canada gained many manufacturing jobs from offshore, low-wage
producers. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 7
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
16) The emergence of the Internet into a full-blown international communications system has
drastically increased the costs of operating and transacting on a global scale.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 9
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.1 The Role of Information Systems in Business Today
17) Middle management makes long-range strategic decisions about products and services and ensures
the financial performance of the firm.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
18) Production or service workers actually produce the product and deliver the service.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
, Management-Information-Systems ( 6th ed -Canadian test bank by Laudon et al.)
19) Business organizations are hierarchies consisting of three principal levels: senior
management, middle management, and operational management.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
20) Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of
business processes.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 15
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
21) Recent research on business information technology investment indicates that firms that support
their technology investments with investments in complementary assets receive superior returns.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 21
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
22) The value of investments in information technology depends to a large extent on
complementary investments in management and organization.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 21
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems
23) The study of information systems is a single disciplinary
field. Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 23
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.3 Complementary Assets: Organizational Capital and the Right Business Model
24) Issues such as strategic business integration, design, implementation, utilization, and
management are explored fully with the models used in the technical approach.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 23
AACSB: Reflective thinking skills
CASE: Content
A-level Heading: 1.3 Complementary Assets: Organizational Capital and the Right Business Model
