M0084 – Sistem Informasi dalam Manajemen
True-False – Individual Assignment
Pertemuan – 26
Understanding the Business Value of Systems and Managing Change
1. Most technology systems are outdated as soon as they are implemented.
2. The best project leader is a manager who has a strong technical and project
management background.
3. Future savings are not worth as much in today's dollars as are current savings.
4. The implementation process always involves downsizing.
5. Scoring models are best used as the final arbiters of system selection.
6. Agency and other coordination costs increase as the firm moves from local option
systems toward regional and global systems.
7. A reliance on purely technical considerations can sabotage the usefulness of the
system to the organization.
8. Areas where users interface with the system should be carefully designed, with
sensitivity to ergonomic issues.
9. Cultural and political differences have profound effects on newly-globalized
organizations.
10. The project risk will rise if the project team and the IS staff lack the required
technical expertise.
11. Participation in implementation activities is enough to counter user resistance unless
the system is totally different.
12. The major reason that users are driven out of the implementation process is the userdesigner communications gap.
13. There is a very high failure rate among IS projects because organizations fail to allot
enough funds to succeed.
14. The amount of money an investment is worth is called its net present value.
15. Many companies do not realize that some or all of the benefits of systems projects
accrue to society at large.
16. The cost-benefit ratio is calculated by dividing the present value of the total cash
inflow from an investment by the initial cost of the investment.
17. If you need to take into account the cost, earning, and time value of money, you will
use the profitability index budgeting model.
18. A real options pricing model evaluates information technology investments with
uncertain returns by using techniques for valuing financial options.
19. The most important outcome of a scoring model is often the judgment of the
participants.
20. The use of external integration tools is a project management technique that helps
monitor the progress toward completion of a task and the fulfillment of goals.
21. It has not been proven that the plethora of modern personal technology devices allows
us to get more done in less time.
22. When system designers work with users, they find that users often are more
knowledgeable than senior management.