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Three professionals at a corporation utilize different Business Intelligence (BI) delivery systems to support their decisions. Based on the management frameworks provided in your course slides, which of the following correctly matches the manager to the system and the specific functionality being used?   ·  I. A Shift Supervisor receives a weekly exception report that lists only the factory lines where equipment downtime exceeded the target, allowing him to focus only on problem areas. ·  II. A Financial Analyst performs what-if analysis to model how the firm’s total profit would change if raw material costs were to increase by 10% next quarter. ·  III. The CEO utilizes a balanced scorecard to monitor the “Learning and Growth” dimension of the firm by reviewing employee training hours and internal promotion rates.

Which of the following CORRECTLY distinguishes disaster recovery planning from business continuity planning?

Information systems do not always result in better decisions. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?

A large enterprise operates using multiple, incompatible information systems across its Sales, Manufacturing, Accounting, and HR departments. Which of the following BEST describes the core business challenge that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are designed to address?

Early AI systems used rule-based expert systems with pre-defined ‘if-then’ rules. Why did modern AI development shift primarily toward machine learning instead?

A retailer experiences a small uptick in consumer demand and orders slightly more inventory. The wholesaler, seeing the larger order, orders significantly more from the manufacturer, who in turn orders even larger quantities of raw materials. The result is massive excess inventory upstream despite only a modest demand change at the retail level. This phenomenon is known as:

Often workplace investigators are told to watch body language for indications that a person is lying or deceiving the investigator. Please describe the potential pitfalls in this advice. (3 marks)

How do biases affect decision making in an investigation; please use 3 examples of bias from the course material to illustrate how it affects decision making. ( 6 marks)

Most investigations are carried out my internal HR personnel, when it is appropriate to bring in an external third party to conduct an investigation. Please detail two circumstances. (2 marks)

What is the purpose of having a standardized interview “opening”? ( 2 marks)