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Contents xxi

Develop Priorities and Enforce Them Within the IS Department 435
Sponsor the Steering Committee 435
• Ethics Guide: Using the Corporate Computer 436
Q3 What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of
Outsourcing? 438
Outsourcing Information Systems 438
International Outsourcing 439
What Are the Outsourcing Alternatives? 440
What Are the Risks of Outsourcing? 441

Q4 What Are Your User Rights and Responsibilities? 443
Your User Rights 443
Your User Responsibilities 444
Q5 2025? 445
• Security Guide: Are We Protecting Them from Me or Me from Them? 446
• Guide: Is Outsourcing Fool’s Gold? 448
Case Study 11: iApp$$$$ 4 U 452

12: InforMaTIon SySTeMS

develoPMenT 455

Q1 How Are Business Processes, IS, and Applications
Developed? 457

How Do Business Processes, Information Systems, and Applications Differ and
Relate? 458
Which Development Processes Are Used for Which? 459
Q2 How Do Organizations Use Business Process Management
(BPM)? 461
Why Do Processes Need Management? 461
What Are BPM Activities? 462
Q3 How Is Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Used to
Model Processes? 464

Need for Standard for Business Processing Notation 464
Documenting the As-Is Business Order Process 464
Q4 What Are the Phases in the Systems Development
Life Cycle (SDLC)? 466

Define the System 468
• Ethics Guide: Estimation Ethics 470
Determine Requirements 472
Design System Components 474
System Implementation 475
Maintain System 476