WORDLIST FOR UNIT 12
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Discuss how to identify the information needs of a team or a department and how to assess the effectiveness of meeting them.
DISCUSSION
Answer the questions.
1. What is the general difference between bullish and bearish companies?
2. How does a CIS department function in a bullish company?
3. How do bullish and bearish approaches to computer equipment differ?
4. What can be said about planning in companies of the two types?
6. Name a few fields where being bullish is vital and being bearish is acceptible; provide supporting arguments.
Look through the list of words carefully. Translate all the terms and be ready to explain them in English. Learn the terms and be sure you know how to use them.
| Page/ source | Terms and expressions | Translation or explanation |
| р.94 | Application (n) (2 meanings) | |
| Data (n) | ||
| Database (n) | ||
| Extranet (n) | ||
| Intranet (n) | ||
| Information communication technology (ICT) | ||
| Information technology (IT) | ||
| Multimedia (n) | ||
| Videoconferencing (n) | ||
| Accept (v) | ||
| Agree (v) | ||
| Argue (v) | ||
| Assert (v) | ||
| Cite (v) | ||
| Claim (v) | ||
| Concede (v) | ||
| Consider (v) | ||
| Contend (v) | ||
| Describe (v) | ||
| Disagree (v) | ||
| Dispute (v) | ||
| Emphasize (v) | ||
| Illustrate (v) | ||
| Indicate (v) | ||
| Insist (v) | ||
| Note (v) | ||
| Observe (v) | ||
| Point out (v) | ||
| Report (v) | ||
| State (v) | ||
| Suggest (v) | ||
| p. 95 | Internal audit | |
| External audit | ||
| Noticeboard (n) | ||
| Management information system (MIS) | ||
| Integrate (v) | ||
| Interconnect (v) | ||
| Coherent (adj) | ||
| Referral (n) | ||
| Payroll (n) | ||
| Duplication (n) | ||
| Double-book (v) | ||
| Overrun deadlines | ||
| Backing (n) | ||
| State-of-the-art (adj) | ||
| p.96 | Dotcom company | |
| Technology company | ||
| Easy-to-use (adj) | ||
| Blossom (v) | ||
| In one's infancy | ||
| Draw on (upon) smth | ||
| Navigate (v) | ||
| Grow organically | ||
| Miss deadlines | ||
| Sue smb for smth | ||
| To be a model of success | ||
| To enter a piece of data | ||
| Update (v) | ||
| Misinformation (n) | ||
| To bring smth back to life | ||
| To be fundamental to smth | ||
| p.98 | Conduct (v) | |
| Undertake (v) | ||
| Finding (n) | ||
| Implication (n) | ||
| Random (adj) | ||
| Respondent (n) | ||
| Sample (n, v) | ||
| Survey (n, v) | ||
| Core employees (staff) | ||
| Gender profile | ||
| Collate (v) | ||
| Common \ connecting thread | An idea or condition that exists in all the different parts of something and connects them | |
| In the face of smth | ||
| To be in line with smth | ||
| Push smth under | ||
| Text 1 | Boundary (n) | |
| Unprocessed (adj) | ||
| Convert (v) | ||
| Convey (v) | ||
| Insight (n) | ||
| Raw data | ||
| Text 2 | Multitude (n) | |
| Misinterpret (v) | ||
| Quote (v) | ||
| Finding (n) | ||
| Text 3 | Explosion (n) | |
| Wiki (n) | ||
| Focus on smth | ||
| Mirror (v) | ||
| Proactively (adv) | ||
| Fluid (adj) | ||
| Evolve (v) | ||
| PDA | ||
| Text 4 | Rest upon | |
| Computerize (v) | ||
| Associate (n) | ||
| Web-based (adj) | ||
| Systematize (v) | ||
| Trigger (v) | ||
| Compatible (adj) | ||
| Near-zero (adj) | ||
| Groupware (n) | ||
| Blame smth on smb/smth | ||
| Text 5 | Anticipate (v) | |
| To keep abreast of smth | ||
| Regardless of | ||
| To stem from | ||
| Bearish (adj) | ||
| Interactive (adj) | ||
| Prevailing (adj) | ||
| Tailor (v) | ||
| Mainframe (n) | ||
| Integral (adj) | ||
| State-of-the-art (adj) | ||
| Aggressive (adj) | ||
| Bullish (adj) | ||
| Forefront (n) |
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