Most Organizations Are Not in Business to Provide Information Technology

question 38

Multiple Choice

 Most organizations are not in business to provide information technology services, yet many have spent valuable time and resources on information technology functions when they should have instead worked on important competencies such as marketing, customer service, and new product design. Outsourcing helps tackle this problem. Which benefit does outsourcing primarily provide in such a scenario?

• A) reduces fixed and recurrent costs
• B) protects strategic information from being accessible to external suppliers
• C) increases accountability even without a written contract
• D) helps focus on an organization's core business

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Definitions:

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method that models the relationship between a single independent variable and a dependent variable by fitting a linear equation to observed data.

T-Table Values

Critical values from the t-distribution, used to determine the acceptability of a hypothesis based on the sample data.

Expected Value

The weighted average of all possible values of a random variable, representing the long-term average outcome of a given situation if it were to be repeated many times.

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method for estimating the relationship between two quantitative variables, allowing predictions of one variable given the other.