41) UPS's use of Web-based tools that allow customers to embed UPS functions such as tracking and cost calculations into their own Web sites was an information systems solution used to achieve customer intimacy.
42) Government and private-sector standards are examples of complementary social assets required to optimize returns from IT investments.
43) A firm that invests in efficient business processes is making an investment in organizational complementary assets.
44) In the behavioural approach to information systems, technology is ignored in favour of understanding the psychological, social, and economic impacts of systems.
45) The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is responsible for producing all wheat and barley grown in western Canada.
46) In 2010, Canadian businesses will spend over $562 billion on information systems hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment.
47) As newspaper readership continues to increase, more and more people receive their news online.
48) Businesses are starting to use social networking tools to connect their employees, customers, and managers worldwide.
49) Major business applications are now delivered online as an Internet service rather than as boxed software or custom systems.
50) A mobile digital platform cannot compete with the PC as a business system.
51) The strength of cloud computing and the growth of the mobile digital platform allow organizations to rely more on telework, remote work, and distributed decision making.
52) The smartphone has been called the "Swiss Army knife of the digital age."
53) A declining percentage of the economy of North America and other advanced industrial countries in Europe and Asia depends on imports and exports.
54) Information systems contain information about significant people, places, and things within the organization or in the environment surrounding it.
55) Information systems literacy, in contrast, focuses primarily on knowledge of information technology.