Across
- 4. Task force organization that must respond to rapidly changing environments. Consists of large groups of specialists organized into short-lived multidisciplinary teams and has weak central management.
- 6. ___________ effect is the distortion of information about the demand for a product as it passes from one entity to the next across the supply chain.
- 8. When the output of some units can be used as inputs to other units, or two organizations pool markets and expertise, these relationships lower costs and generate profits.
- 9. A type of Website that makes it easy for users to contribute and edit text content and graphics without any knowledge of Webpage development or programming techniques.
- 10. Private intranet that is accessible to authorized outsiders.
- 11. Working with others to achieve shared and explicit goals.
- 14. ___________ cost refers to the cost of market participation.
- 17. Third-party net marketplace that is primarily transaction oriented and that connects many buyers and suppliers for spot purchasing.
- 19. Global network of networks using universal standards to connect millions of different networks.
- 20. The capture or collection of raw data from within the organization or from its external environment for processing in an information system.
Down
- 1. __________ cost refers to the cost of switching from one product to a competing product.
- 2. A marketplace extended beyond traditional boundaries and removed from a temporal and geographical location.
- 3. Precise rules, procedures and practices that have been developed to cope with expected situations.
- 5. Data have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings.
- 7. Setting strict standards for products, services, or activities and measuring organizational performance against those standards.
- 12. A stable formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and process them to produce outputs.
- 13. A highly trained technical specialist who writes computer software instructions.
- 15. Streams of raw facts representing events occurring in organizations or the physical environment before they have been organized and arranged into a form that people can understand and use.
- 16. Output that is returned to the appropriate members of the organization to help them evaluate or correct input.
- 18. The set of fundamental assumptions about what products the organization should produce, how and where it should produce them, and for whom they should be produced.