Stan Marsh Is V

question 193

Multiple Choice

Stan Marsh is V.P. of sales at Ski Warehouse, a chain of snow sports equipment outlets throughout the rocky mountain and northwest regions of the United States, The company was built over time by purchasing successful independent sporting equipment retailers. Stan now finds it difficult to evaluate some of his store locations because they report their sales figures on a quarterly basis rather than monthly as do the stores in the rest of the company. This is an example of which of the following factors that cause information deficiencies 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:

Public Good

A public good is a product that one individual can consume without reducing its availability to another individual and from which no one is excluded.

Rival Good

A type of good where one person's consumption of the good reduces the ability of another person to consume the same good.

Exclusive Good

A product or service that is available only to certain people or groups, often due to high price or scarcity.

Public Good

A good or service offered to every member of a society for free, either by public authorities or by a private organization or person, without seeking profit.