An organization is preparing for the next quarter’s goals. How can an MIS system help derive a reasonable goal?

 A(n) _____ is a device that connects a user to the Internet.

 According to Porter’s Five Forces Model, ____ is low when customers have more options.

 In a(n) _____, production, sales, and marketing are decentralized, and financial management remains the parent company’s responsibility.

 In an organization with a(n) _____ structure, the parent company, and all the subsidiaries work together in designing policies, procedures, and logistics for delivering products and services to the right market.

 _____ are small text files with unique ID tags embedded in a Web browser and saved on the user’s hard drive.

 _____ holds data when the computer is off.

 There is a new volunteer on your non-profit team. They are retired and have had extensive experience running small businesses successfully. They will be helping process payroll for the paid employees. They notice that you have over 100 paid employees, and they have concerns about manually tallying up hours for everyone for the weekly payroll. How would you describe how transaction-processing systems will help with their concern?

 An organization’s rapidly growing business has hired new sales personnel. Some customers are receiving duplicate sales calls from different sales representatives. What should the organization use to implement better control and reduce customer frustrations and confusion?

 An analyst notices that an employee’s login, along with a strange sequence of keystrokes, corresponds to data corruption on the file system. What has most likely happened to cause this issue?