It is a type of information system that supports management decision-making by providing various types of reports, such as regular summary reports, exception reports, ad hoc reports, and other types of recorded information.

Tactical Information System

Which statement is NOT TRUE about Tactical Information System?

It is a type of information system that also has the ability to generate reports, but also has the capacity to create expected and unexpected output, such as comparative and descriptive information, summarized data as opposed to detailed data, data sources, and information processed from subjective and objective data.

These are types of budgeting information systems that permit managers to track and compare actual revenues and expenses in order to produce estimates for expected revenues and expenses.

Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems

Which statement is NOT TRUE about Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems?

However, one must keep in mind that these systems only help a manager create decisions based on the data it provides; it is an AUTOMATED decision system.

What Applications of Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems is being described? "This system produces cash flow reports, which show the estimated amount of incoming and outgoing cash for a specific timeframe (usually monthly)."

Cash Management System

What Applications of Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems is being described? "This system focuses on producing information for the acquisition or disposal of assets for a given timeframe."

Capital Budgeting System

What Applications of Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems is being described? "This system produces reports that allow a manager to oversee an organization’s investments in stocks, bonds, or other securities as a separate, but nevertheless important aspect of cash management."

Investment Management System

Tactical Marketing Information System

Which Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems can be described? "This system allows managers to assess the productivity of a sales force, the profitability of certain locations, and the success of the products further categorized by salespersons, location, and target demographic."

Sales Management System

Which Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems can be described? "This particular system governs advertising and promotional tactics in order to achieve sales goals set by upper management."

Advertising and Promotion System

Which Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems can be described? "This system provides information to managers that allows them to set prices for products and services. "

Pricing System

Which Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems can be described? "This system provides information on costs for using various distribution channels; information may include timeframes for deliveries, time lags caused by use of certain channels, reliability ratings for channels based on delivery efficiency, and the market segment situation provided by the channels."

Distribution Channel System

Which Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems can be described? "This system ensures an organization’s marketing strategy can continue to satisfy customers by monitoring market volatility, specifically by gathering and processing information about major competitors and their activities."

Competitive Tracking System

These are designed to be goal-oriented; this means that these types of systems are designed to support the overall goals and directions of an organization, based on forecasted and/or researched information.

Strategic Level Information System

It is an information system that handles strategic marketing activities, such as segmentation of the market based on target demographics and criteria,selection of preferred marketsegments,the planning of products and services to meet demands, and forecastingof sales based on market segments and products.

Strategic Marketing Information System

Which Applications of Strategic Marketing Information Systems is being described? "This system creates different types of sales forecasts, from industry sales, product/service sales, to forecasts of market segments. These forecasts are further categorized using the preferred criteria (target demographic, location, and sales division)."

Sales Forecasting System

Which Applications of Strategic Marketing Information Systems is being described? "This system handles research departments for large organizations or via consultants for smaller enterprises. Regardless of how the function is completed, the results of marketing research provide important input to both tactical and strategic decision making. "

Marketing Research System

Which Applications of Strategic Marketing Information Systems is being described? "The objective of this system is to make information about consumer preferences obtained from marketing research systems, and from customer inquiries available; the information is then used to develop new products with specifications that meet the criteria from the output information of the system."

Product Planning and Development System

It is a type of information system can provide support for production decisions, such as designing and lay-outingof production facilities, as well as the selection for the facilities’ technologies, policies, and personnel.

Strategic Production Information System

Which Applications of Strategic Production Information Systems is being described? "This system relies on a variety of internal (within the organization, such as those from other information systems) and external (outside the organization, such as other related companies or contacts) sources of information."

Site Planning and Selection System

Which Applications of Strategic Production Information Systems is being described? "This particular system allows top managers to make better or more informed decisions on which production technologies should be used for a product or service."

Technology Planning and Assessment System

Which Applications of Strategic Production Information Systems is being described? "This system handles vertical integration, which are processes that are to be performed for any given product or service."

Process Positioning System

Which Applications of Strategic Production Information Systems is being described? "This system processes information for decisions concerning proposed facilities; information for this system includes facility design and layout, proposed technologies, personnel, expected completion dates, transportation, and ultimately the costs of materials for construction and maintenance."

Facility Design System

Select ALL Market Research Activities

Conducting trend analysis of industry-wide market sales, analysis of target demographics including changes in data or trends, analysis and identification of target demographic preferences, analysis of customer satisfaction for products/services, estimation of market share for products/services offered.

It is a type of information system that supports HR managers in handling aspects of the acquisition, allocation, and maintenance of an organization’s workforce. This includes the creation of jobs for a specific goal/purpose/process, employee acquisition, training and capacity-building, and budget allocations for jobs and positions.

Tactical Human Resource Information System

Which Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems create jobs or positions required by an organization. They involve tasks such as writing job descriptions, designation of purposes, tasks, duties, and responsibilities for a job or position, specifying the conditions and performance standards that are required to qualify for these jobs or positions, and processing of information from guidelines and external data sources such as labor unions, competitors, and government agencies."

Job Analysis and Design Systems

Which Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems handle functions that provide an organization with a pool of qualified applicants that may fill vacant positions identified by position control systems and/or job analysis and design systems."

Recruiting Systems

Which Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems allow HR managers to support the creation of compensation and benefit plans for employees."

Compensation and Benefit Systems

Which Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems handle decisions for employee development, usually via capacity-building. Capacity-building for employees is facilitated by finding potential employees that meet certain criteria and creating training and development plans that will allow interested and qualified individuals to benefit from these plans."

Employee Training and Development Systems

Which Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems ensure that replacements for key positions in the organization are available at all times. This is to ensure that these positions do not become vacant in the event of death, debilitating injury, retirement, promotion/demotion, or other reasons."

Succession Planning Systems

It is a type of information system that manages the organization’s workforce as a whole. It allows an HR manager to formulate workforce plans and labor negotiations to ensure that the enterprise has the appropriate conditions for the appropriate personnel.

Strategic Human Resource Information System

Which Applications of Strategic Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems facilitate strategic long-term workforce planning and management using relevant data, such as those from other information systems.

Workforce Planning Systems

Which Applications of Strategic Human Resource Information Systems is being described? "These systems gather data from other HR information systems, as well as information from financial accounting systems and external sources, in order to help create negotiating terms between the organization and labor unions. They mostly use generated ad hoc reports that allow the organization to see their and a labor union’s positions from industrial and economic standpoints"

Labor Negotiation Systems