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What is NOT a reason for the growth of decision-making information systems? People no longer have to worry about protecting the corporate asset of organizational information. People must apply sophisticated analysis techniques to make good decisions. People must make decisions quickly. People need to analyze large amounts of information.

The factor that significantly contributed to people's needs to use information systems to make decisions is ______. the amount of information people must understand to make good decisions is increasing exponentially. impossible to answer because it depends on the industry. the amount of information people must understand to make good decisions has remained unchanged. the amount of information people must understand to make good decisions is decreasing exponentially.

How do decision-making information systems work? by building models out of organizational information to lend insight into important business issues and opportunities by building models out of analytical information only to lend insight into important business issues and opportunities None of these are correct. by building models out of transactional information only to lend insight into important business issues and opportunities

Which is not a type of organizational information system? transactional processing system analysis processing system decisions support system executive information system

What can an information systems model accomplish? manipulate time All of these are correct. understand uncertainty calculate risks

Managers use ____________ information when making structured decisions at the operational level, such as when analyzing daily sales reports to determine how much inventory to carry. supply-side transactional uncertain structured

Whole Foods' organizational structure is ______________ and the majority of decisions are made by the ___________. decentralized, regional managers centralized, executives pyramid, executives pyramid, regional managers

Whole Foods stated it strives to provide the highest quality natural and organic product available. This is an example of a(n) _________. critical success factor efficiency MIS metric key performance indicator effectiveness MIS metric

What type of information is produced by the point-of-sale systems (cash registers) Whole Foods' employees use to process customer sales? OLAP transactional information analytical information DSS

What types of information do Whole Foods' regional managers use to make purchasing decisions from local suppliers? analytical information OLTP DSS transactional information

Which of the following is not one of Whole Foods' four separate organizational hierarchies? facilities employment regional offices centralized employment global headquarters

Which of the following is an example of Whole Foods' MIS effectiveness metrics? quick response time of systems quick transaction speed for cash registers high customer satisfaction high system availability

Which of the following is an example of Whole Foods' MIS efficiency metrics? easy to use systems high system availability high conversion rates of customers high customer satisfaction