Trillings College Invested Over $450,000 in a Customized Learning Management

question 51

Multiple Choice

Trillings College invested over $450,000 in a customized learning management system so that professors could put courses online and use the Internet to deliver course content and communications to students. After the first year of use, only 20% of the faculty were using the system. Administrators were frustrated to learn that most faculty found the system difficult to use, they did not understand how to post student grades and assignments to the new platform and that students also had difficulty understanding how to find information on the system. This case is an example of which of the following information deficiency causes cited in your text?

• A) Lost or bypassed data
• B) User-fierce interfaces
• C) Data silos
• D) Non-standardized data

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Definitions:

Raw Materials

Raw materials are the basic, unprocessed physical materials required for manufacturing products.

Finished Goods Inventory

The stock of completed products ready for sale but not yet sold, representing one of the final stages in the production process.

Finished Goods Inventory

The stock of completed products that are ready to be sold.

Required Production

The quantity of products a company needs to produce to meet its sales forecasts and inventory levels.