M0084 – Sistem Informasi dalam Manajemen
True-False – Individual Assignment
Pertemuan – 03
Information Systems for Competitive
1. Labor unions are the organizations of both skilled and unskilled workers for certain
trades and industries.
2. Shareholders are the persons who invest money in the firm and represent the ultimate
owners of the firm.
3. The location is the geographic area where the firm performs its operations.
4. Not all resources flow between the firm and all environmental elements.
5. Michael Porter believes that firms achieve value by creating a value chain.
6. Margin is the value of the firm's products and services less their costs, as perceived
by the firm's customers, and margin is the objective of the chain.
7. A firm can link its value activities to those of its suppliers by implementing systems
that make input resources available when needed.
8. The MNC is an open system that seeks to minimize the uncertainty that its
environment imposes.
9. One problem with legacy data is that if it is not in digital format it cannot be captured
as images.
10. JPG is a common image format used mainly for Web images that achieves reduction
of file size over most other formats.
11. Strategic planning for information resources is the concurrent development of
strategic plans for information services and the firm so that the firm's plan reflects the
support to be provided by information services and the information services plan
reflects the future demands for systems support.
12. The centralized expertise strategy localizes control within the parent company.
13. With the centralized control strategy the products for all of the world markets are
manufactured centrally and shipped to the subsidiaries.
14. With the centralized control and distributed expertise strategy the parent and all of the
subsidiaries work together in formulating strategies and operating policies, as well as
in coordinating the logistics of getting the products to the right markets.
15. A global information system can be defined as a system that consists of networks that
cross national boundaries.