____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies as they occur.

Strayer BUS 302 Week 9 Quiz

• Question 1

____ costs are the costs associated with implementing or monitoring control.

• Question 2

Quality is typically defined and measured in three ways. They are ____.

• Question 3

Several extended-stay hotel chains ask guests to hang their towels so they can be reused as a way to help the environment. This request reflects which stage of waste minimization?

• Question 4

Companies that rely on bureaucratic control tend to ____.

• Question 5

____ should be used when it is difficult to create good measures of worker behavior and output and when organizational culture, values, and beliefs are strong.

• Question 6

Control is a(n) ____ process.

• Question 7

The three basic control methods are ____.

• Question 8

A report calling for a company to set clear targets to improve fuel economy and to cut factory emissions would want the company to establish emission control ____.

• Question 9

____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies as they occur.

• Question 10

____ is a control method that encourages managers to look beyond traditional measures to evaluate four different perspectives on company performance.

• Question 11

____ are a basis of comparison for measuring the extent to which organizational performance is satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

• Question 12

Companies may determine standards by ____.

• Question 13

____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies before they occur.

• Question 14

Which of the following is NOT one of the four perspectives measured in the Balanced Scorecard approach to control?

• Question 15

____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies after they occur.

• Question 16

Using ____ data mining, the user usually begins by telling the data mining software to look and test for specific patterns and relationships in a data set.

• Question 17

Intranets are ____.

• Question 18

The first company to use new information technology to substantially lower costs or differentiate products or services often gains ____.

• Question 19

The two major types of data mining are ____.

• Question 20

A company developed a(n) ____ to allow its more than 50 department heads and executive managers to use a Web browser to view sales results and distribution plans with a single click..

• Question 21

The term ____ refers to facts and figures that are in an unusable form.

• Question 22

Two critical steps are required to make sure that data can be accessed by authorized users and no one else. They are ____.

• Question 23

For the purposes of data mining, ____ patterns are just the opposite of association patterns.

• Question 24

In the process of capturing information, ASCII text is generated by ____.

• Question 25

The key to sustaining competitive advantage is ____.

• Question 26

Using ____ data mining, the user simply tells the data mining software to uncover whatever patterns and relationships it can find in a data set.
• Question 27

____ is the process of ensuring that data are reliably and consistently retrievable in a usable format for authorized users, but no one else.

• Question 28

____ allow managers and employees to use a Web browser to gain access to customized company information and to complete specialized transactions.

• Question 29

A(n) ____ is an information system that helps managers understand problems and potential solutions by acquiring and analyzing information with sophisticated models and tools.

• Question 30

Data mining is the ____.