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References . Pseudonym: jmiguelv Commentsthe JIT invetory system Wal-mart is using seems to be one of the more effective systems in order to not over order or be under supplied. Im interested in the JIT system because if a major retail suppler as WAl mart feels its good it must be Pseudonym: ChickenSoup88 CommentsThis website offered a lot of usual information and easy to understand definitions. It actually just helped me to better understand the chart from the slides dealing with the value chain and primary and support processes. I recommend this site. Pseudonym: chevy CommentsIt helped me really understand what it means to be a cost leader. Pseudonym: pas09 CommentsThe idea is that information, knowledge, and wisdom are more than simply collections. Rather, the whole represents more than the sum of its parts and has a synergy of its own. Pseudonym: boywonder CommentsThis site contains details about the Alliance that McDonals and Disney had, which lasted 10 years and ended in a bitter note. Pseudonym: Gely Commentsthis web page shows a study of how important is for a company to be agile and it shows some results. Pseudonym: Toby CommentsThis article is about how a company uses information systems to struture and align itself in the ever-changing world. Pseudonym: Toby CommentsHow information system may be used to intergrate cost leadership with a differentiation strategy in order to deliver competitive prices with product features. Pseudonym: hotwheels17 Commentshas a good definition, also mention an example. compare to another systems Pseudonym: piojobersuitero CommentsThe article shows the differences among the tacit and the explicit knowledge, the advantages and disadvantages from both of them, and what is the importance of these to approache to the management applications. Pseudonym: MJ14 CommentsThis article covers business process reengineering from many different angels. It provides pros and cons to the process. It provides possible alternatives to business process reengineering. It also incorporates information system role in the reengineering process. Pseudonym: Champignons CommentsA Strategic Information System (SIS)is a system to manage information and assist in strategic decision making. A strategic information system has been defined as, "The information system to support or change enterprise's strategy. Pseudonym: mcdeluca CommentsIt is an interesting article which describes the 5 forces model in economy. • The bargaining power of customers • The bargaining power of suppliers • The threat of new entrants • The threat of substitute products • The intensity of competitive rivalry Pseudonym: kaiosama CommentsThis article explains the definition of knowledge managment and also contains different questions and answers about KM, like the challenges for KM, how to approach KM, what technologies support KM, etc. Pseudonym: kyalvarez Commentsthe article mention the characteristics of a virtual company, the pros and cons about having a virtual company; like being able to have workers all over the country or even go international without a physical location, etc. Pseudonym: nene Commentsby browsing on this site i got more information to understand better this chapter. Pseudonym: evoboy2 CommentsCommunity based website.Everyone can join and post.But this article is very concise and to the point . Pseudonym: State Of Mind CommentsA description about the basic strategies a business could make in order to improve profitability Pseudonym: aands CommentsThis is a report how factors influenceing has been used in real life. It is a useful example to see how does the term work. Pseudonym: mixologista CommentsThis website provides an explanation of why they use strategic information system....its provides its key components. Pseudonym: Mr.Anderson CommentsThis Article details about how IT is enabling and making it easier for small busnisses to compete with big businesses.Various busnisses owners come together and provide information to help other small business owners in the same situations. Pseudonym: Pvespa CommentsThis page explains how a company would go about implementing a cost-leadership strategy. The company can do this by offering products with a minimal amount of differentiation while offering it at the lowest price possible. The page then offers a list of examples of differentiation features that can lower buyer costs. If a company successfully implements this cost leadership strategy it can still earn above-average returns when all five of the competitive forces are strong. This strategy as all others also comes with a number of risks, especially if it is not implemented correctly. Pseudonym: Pher CommentsThis article is a quick summary of the second chapter. It gives different point of views to maximize information systems. Pseudonym: çjean1023 CommentsCompeting with OSS marketing, design and other competitive points which you can implement with, I thought, IT software in general. Pseudonym: berserk CommentsHow Strategic information technologies help produce greater efficiencies and help in output levels. Pseudonym: muzikgerl CommentsThis site discusses Porter's Generic Value Chain, Cost advantages of the value chain and the ten cost drivers related to the value chain activities. It discusses other topics such as; the differentiation, outsourcing, and the value chain system. It is a very thorough site about the value chain. Pseudonym: dims87 CommentsThis website goes into great detail about the value chain and how it is utlized to gain competitive advantage and differentiation. Its great because it brings everything together. Pseudonym: cjordan Commentsarticle gives examples how innovation from small companies have revolutionized products that we use Pseudonym: nd<3 CommentsThis website provides the top 100 most agile companies. Each company has a brief summary on what it's services/products are, a brief background, number of employees etc... It's interesting to see the differences within these companies. I was surprised to see that companies with 10,000+ employees have proven to be just as agile as companies with as few as 1,600 employees. Interesting! Pseudonym: azuherib7 CommentsThis website explains how information technology changes an industry structure,creates competitive advantage by lowering cost and enhancing differentiation, and changes the company scope. Some activities that IT supports are in financing, legal services, government affairs, human resources ,recruiting, hiring, etc. Pseudonym: miner maniac CommentsThis is the development of a unique product. Pseudonym: cjean1023 CommentsVarious business people give their view point on how IT has helped them compete. Pseudonym: MsPrettyPink CommentsThis websiter provides articles on different companies' strategies to be competitive and that have succeeded or failed so that other businesses my learn from them. Pseudonym: D Mo CommentsThis site explains the value chain and how it came about. It is a good example of what steps are needed to take for corporate success. The only bad thing about this site is that it downloads as a PDF file and some might not be able to read it. Pseudonym: wisconsin88 CommentsThis website gives actual examples of business' competing with Information Technology Pseudonym: devastate44 CommentsThis site was helpful, it talked about the value chain and the importance of cost-leadership. For companies to be successful they must have a good grasp on this concept. Pseudonym: HGS CommentsHere is an article that shows what an IT consulting group can do for an organization. Hitachi Consulting group went into this charity organization with a plan and was able to create a Contact Relationship Managment System within budget. I found this article interesting in how Hitachi Consulting also works with 25% of the Global 100 companies and many leading mid-level companies to implement similar strategies based on needs. This seemed similar to SAP discussed in class. Pseudonym: 7773 CommentsSimple and to the point Pseudonym: redickrocks93 CommentsThis site gives a plan layout of an IT system and how a company uses it specifically. Pseudonym: ABCDEFG21 CommentsThe following website gives an overview of Porter's Value Chain Analysis Pseudonym: CCLK CommentsA strategic information system helps companies change or alter business strategies and structure. There are key features which include decision support systems, planning, and data collection. This site also offers more history and discussions on strategic information systems. Pseudonym: Pamachgri CommentsThis article is very interesting what I got my attention was the graph about building customer focused. Pseudonym: pfc freda CommentsThis short article describes how some factors influence and help gain competitive advantage over others. Pseudonym: Redhot02 CommentsThe website is a wonderful source of information about the importance of the techonology nowdays, and it gives us a wide range of options on how to understand and interpret the technology. Pseudonym: expectations CommentsIn this link there is information easy to understand. It shows three steps to use value chains. Pseudonym: GlenCoco CommentsThis website's model of the five competitive forces, dealing with the factors influencing substitutes, is a little different from the model in the powerpoint from class but says pretty much the same thing. The model is the same, but with different wording. I liked how it explained the 5 forces. Pseudonym: expectations CommentsIn this link there is information easy to understand. It shows three steps to use value chains. Pseudonym: llpr2101 CommentsIn this article talk about how the technology allow them to compete with big buisness Pseudonym: icefox_1 CommentsGives you a better understanding of Value Chain Pseudonym: Boomer CommentsGives a good perspective of what IS is and how important it is to maintain edge. Pseudonym: Conse CommentsThis page is a business dictionary and besides that below the definition it has some links to articles where the word is being used and how it applies to real world businesses, giving the reader a better understanding and definition of the concept. Pseudonym: Conse CommentsThis page is a business dictionary and besides that below the definition it has some links to articles where the word is being used and how it applies to real world businesses, giving the reader a better understanding and definition of the concept. Pseudonym: First_Flight CommentsIn evaluating the website, which link is provided above, the overall content is above par considering that an explanation is provided as to what defines cost leadership and differentiation. The information or main emphasis is on three generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. My argument on Porter's strategies is that each firm is unique, so its strategy should tailor to what works for the organization in question. Pseudonym: violet CommentsThis is a good page because you can learn with more detail what are the competitive forces Pseudonym: loxyproxy CommentsThis article, although a bit outdated in published year alone, is very informative and interesting. It really encapsulated what it ACTUALLY takes to create your own virtual company. The "Six steps to forming a virtual e-commerce operation" at the very end of the article are probably its strongest point. Pseudonym: Fili19 CommentsThis page is about differentiation, and cost leadership strategies and what each one is and does to a company; it also gives a few examples of each. Pseudonym: yoski2 CommentsGives definition and examples of competitive advantage. Also, it has a graph of how the author believes is the best way of competitive advantage. Pseudonym: dcowboys0065 CommentsThis site only contains basic information about explicit and tatic knowledge. Pseudonym: setnomleb CommentsThis site offers an article on how Strategic Information Systems are essential to business strategies. The site shows brief examples on how Strategic Information Systems are used. Pseudonym: Lilithwasfirst CommentsShares news, tools, ideas, advice, and links to everything Information Technology. Pseudonym: aaharley CommentsThis web page talks about the inventors of the early computers. Pseudonym: Calicokitty CommentsThis article focuses on the benefits of implementing IS and IT system in a health care facility. Including improvements in services and reducing the probability of delays. I found this article to be interesting but lengthy. Pseudonym: tokioprincess CommentsThe goal of the value chain is to create value that exceeds the cost of providing the product and/or service, which in turn generates a profit margin. It asl explains that it is vital in developing a competitve advantage. Pseudonym: SJ313 CommentsValue is added to an organization through Knowledege Management. Pseudonym: @irvriv CommentsThis short article talks about how it is important for organizations to stay up to date in order to stay competitive with other businesses and organizations Pseudonym: rosebud CommentsThe article provides a brief overview of information technology, as well as the different applications for different enterprises. It emphasizes that IS alone is not worth much, but if you treat it as a tool, you can reap several benefits. Pseudonym: Tiburon Commentsthis site explains a little more about Cisco Systems, Inc Pseudonym: Stx13b13 CommentsThis website describes Competitive Advantage, and how its good for a company. It also goes into cost advantage, differentiation advantage, and value creation. Pseudonym: Shogun CommentsConcepts and Planning Pseudonym: lesmom CommentsIts a theory on "The Path of Development of Strategic Information Systems Theory." Pseudonym: marieM Commentsthis article provides information on the application of information technology in the business environment Pseudonym: MrBull CommentsAn interesting insight to another virtual company, the liberal webblog MoveOn.org. It's all run as a virtual company! Pretty crazy... Pseudonym: phila_31 CommentsGood information but only has the intro and conclusion. I would have liked to read the rest. Pseudonym: @aorozco4 CommentsThis is a good site because it gives a point by point explanation of strategic information systems. It also goes over some of the frameworks of stratigic IS. Pseudonym: Two4sun CommentsThis article discusses the relationship between information system functions and corporate strategy and how much interest to Top Management of firms take in the strategic planning. Pseudonym: bpongchmpion CommentsVery insightful site, very relevant to Ch2. Nice layout with pictures Pseudonym: Austina CommentsThis website offers services to firms who want to improve their technology, or just simply meet technology needs. Pseudonym: eeyore Commentsthis is a good summary of the chapter from another text book. and it is a good study guide Pseudonym: Good Luck 1 CommentsThe site describes Cisco's approach to strategic alliances, and their many partners. Pseudonym: ccopperpot3 Commentswebsite provides an abundant amount of information about IT to include history, job availability in the career field, trends in the field. Links are also provided for you if any further questions can not be answered in this page. Pseudonym: pjwero CommentsIn the slides from chapter two, just a few slides were for the title of knowledge management, and in my personal opinion it is a very important and interesting topic. This URN or LINK is about a webpage that explains from the meaning up to how important it is for business and how to implement it, as well as how to categorize it. in summary it is a good reading and very informative. Pseudonym: maxcat CommentsI will use this website for future reference for my studies. It was to the point and easy format to scan. Pseudonym: murfman CommentsThese articles go into detail on just how powerful "E-mail, networks, and easy-to-access databases are enabling small businesses to play ball with the big boys." Pseudonym: charms21 CommentsIn trying to understand the meaning of cost leadership, I found the most basic, simple, understandable definition at this website. Companies with cost leadership are most successful. Pseudonym: FFSH CommentsThis site is excellent to show the history of how MAC's innovation of new products and service impacted the world. I think it is interesting because they give example of how ipods for example impacted a singal person and an entire company. Pseudonym: luchoMD CommentsGreat general information on Information systems, however in this specific article information systems are referred to as tools, an opposite reference to the notes in class. It does provide a starting block albeit superficial and short. Overall it is appropriate for a chapter 2 reference. Pseudonym: MissBurberry CommentsGood website to help you improve business operations Pseudonym: Luscious CommentsThe webpage is simple but provides very useful information about cost leadership. The article uses a chart and a list about cost leadership and it also provides examples. Pseudonym: ipraya CommentsHow Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation Pseudonym: playflea CommentsThis is how Office Depot locks their customers in. An efficient tactical move by office depot in order to make their customers come back again into the the store. Pseudonym: 1224 CommentsThis web site gives a really detailed explanation about the value chain. Pseudonym: mxm CommentsGood research paper on how to identify and use knowledge with in an organization to maintain a competive edge on your competitors. Pseudonym: Love_girl CommentsThis is a really cool site cause it talks about the history of Information Technology, the trends of IT and the kinds of jobs this field offers. This site also gives you all kinds of links related to Information Technology. Pseudonym: acs_moon Commentsthis is a great site to get more knowlegde on how the largest retailer works Pseudonym: Timany CommentsIT Toolbox provides a brief description of what is a strategic informations system. It goes on to list four main key features. Pseudonym: emmy21 CommentsIn order for businesses to have a chance at survival in such a competitive market they are acquiring customer relationship management analytics. This is data compiled of current and prospective clients that will help companies make decisions that will be profitable in the long run. Pseudonym: Monk CommentsThis website goes fully into detail as to Michael Porter's Five Competitive Forces such as threat of substitute products,threat of the entry of new competitors, bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, and rivalry. Great website highly recommend it if you didn't understand the lecture. Pseudonym: noclasstoday CommentsThis site is dedicated to competitive advantage as it pertains to marketing. Gives several references to marketing campaigns and the results of their campaigns. Pseudonym: recardenas2 CommentsThis is an article that talks about if strategic information systems have been able to keep up with the new technology of today that continues to change and be developed every week. Pseudonym: rayadita CommentsIt gives a good overview of common misunderstandings about IS and IT and how to overcome them. Pseudonym: 10311962 CommentsThis article talks about how information systems is very important in making the difference to gain competitive advantage in the business world. It also mentions how this is constantly changing therefore there is always something new to upgrade your business. Pseudonym: tigris1004 CommentsThe website provides detailed information regarding Global Value Chains and what they are. It also provides tools such as publications and discussion boards to stay informed about new products or ideas. Pseudonym: Mr.IneedanA CommentsOn this site you will be able to read about the advantages of information technology and how companies are using as a business weapon. Pseudonym: Rex CommentsTony Fadell is the father of the iPod. His intention was to build a better MP3, he was turned down by RealNetworks and Phillips, but Apple supported him with his project. It took him and his team to complete this project in eight months. Pseudonym: moddi CommentsThis term wasn't quite clear in class, and this website gives a broader understanding on this subject. very good website. Pseudonym: wulfra Commentsthis article was very interesting because i notice that The plan called for shortening the production cycle from 15 to five months, slashing manufacturing costs in half. The remarkable feat would be accomplished thanks to Lockheed Martin's own secret weapon: proprietary collaborative design technology, a blend of web-based tools that use enterprise data management software and simulation technology to reduce design cycles by an astounding 40% to 80%. Pseudonym: sunset38 CommentsHelp explaining what a computer is. Pseudonym: hilda1984 CommentsIt gives you info about how many businesses have succede by using Information systems technology as a source of improvement for efectiviness. Pseudonym: darij CommentsIt explains what invlolved in organization redesign Pseudonym: butzloffrost CommentsThis website described the competition and advantages MIS can bring to the table for many different companies. It describes the prices wars industries may undergo and the vital importance of using systems. The website also includes descriptions of end-user demands and management strategies. Pseudonym: Mgonzalez44 CommentsDefinition, explanation and relating links for Economies of Scale Pseudonym: despino CommentsGives a historical overview of comparative advanthe and how it came about Pseudonym: monster Commentsexplains their way of doing business. they noted that they know there is diversity in the world and they meet all these needs. Pseudonym: erickestrada Commentsthere is a basic review on the linux operation system by an everyday user Pseudonym: ajan05 Commentsthe site provides an article about information technology and how it can help to improve business, so I believe it is very complete Pseudonym: june29 CommentsThe writter of the article shows how comparitve advantage takes place with two food iteams and with the tables and graphs are used to get a understanding of whats going on. Pseudonym: arrenteria CommentsA competitive advantage is defined as the advantage gained over competitors by offering consumers better prices, services, products, value, and benefits. Some of the strategies used include differentiation and cost leadership. Both seek a competitive advantage in a broad range of market or industry, with the objective of growing as a company, but most important of increasing profits. This site divides differentiation and cost leadership into two more categories: differentiation focus and cost focus; these two are adopted in a narrow market insead than a broad one. Pseudonym: eclipsegst CommentsThis site has a good definition and good examples of virtual companies. Pseudonym: jenny18915 CommentsThis is a very detailed page about Strategic Information Systems. It gives a general overview, a definition, as well as information on Porter's Comparative Advantage and Wiseman's Strategic Perspective view. Pseudonym: yamel Commentsprovides good description of value chains Pseudonym: oleyva4 CommentsThey give the history and development of the subject. Pseudonym: zexar CommentsIs what makes a distiction between a business, firm, corporation, what makes you better than the competitors,the extra! Pseudonym: Woody CommentsTacit knowledge is the opposite of explict knowledge. This website explains how is that humans develop tacit knowledge by emotions, observations, experiences, etc. Pseudonym: Tania Deyanira CommentsThis article explains the definition of "Virtual Corporation" and the befenits of it. Also, it talks about the necessary elements to be succesful in a virtual corporation Pseudonym: chachy Commentsgives a detailed account of what Information Technology is Pseudonym: fernandoduarte CommentsThis link talks about the Information and Communication Systems in Virtual Corporations and what are their management implications. Pseudonym: tany89 Commentsthis site analyze how the value chain works into a firm and how a product can change its value along a period of time, giving to the company a competitive advantage. it also discuss how the value chain creates shareholder value. Pseudonym: nguerrero2 CommentsThis article focuses on the competition of information technologies. It was quite interesting because it discussed how different business people converse on how this technology permits them to compete with the big boys. So, it is good to see small businesses staying within the loop. Pseudonym: prijl1226 CommentsDifferent views on what competitive advantage means Pseudonym: psoto5 CommentsThe website gives information about Porter’s ideas about competitive advantage including information about the two books he wrote. Also the website explains Charles Wiseman’s strategic perspective view, which emphasizes the companies’ use of information systems to obtain significant competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Carita9 Commentscompetitive advantage of a firm is the ability for that firm to outer perform compared to other firms. Pseudonym: jatm CommentsThis is an interesting article about global competitive advantage.No matter how big or small a business is,its competition is global. Pseudonym: afdavila CommentsThis website provides different and interesting articles associated with the introduction and utilization of information systems as a strategic tool. Pseudonym: dog22 CommentsGood article that shows Wal-Mart's revenues and market shares. Very insightful. Pseudonym: nessa!13 Commentsi didn't know that companys like cisco were virtual until it was discussed in class. even though i had heard of the company, so this websites explains more what a virtual company is and its advantages. Pseudonym: Ximmy CommentsThis website talks about the factors influencing competitive forces just like the ones mentioned in class today. The point of view the webpage is giving is more economic oriented, but still is the same procedure it takes for Competing with Information Technology. The website mentions the five steps and key points just like our powerpoint slides. This helped me understand more the topic for class. Pseudonym: zizu Commentssince Information technology is now so affordable than ever, it is easier to compete with big business. Pseudonym: emduarte CommentsThis website describes what is competitive advantage. Pseudonym: mmoreno17 CommentsJust from the introduction, we can see the real world implications of what we are learning in class. The growing importance of information techonology is targeted clearly and combining it with a strategic view on switching costs, the resulting paper is very interesting. Pseudonym: thedude89 CommentsDescribes innovation and how it is important in business and technology. Pseudonym: endosmag Commentsvery good book, the autor describes very well what IT is. Pseudonym: mariqis CommentsI did not like this website because it explains the difference between "Knowing that" and "Knowing how" in a very general way, it lacks of relevat details. They show about 2 exaples about each one but I really thing they are exaggerating in their conclusions. Pseudonym: es ar tee pt CommentsI looked this up because I wanted to find out a little bit more about the IBM merger with Windows. Pseudonym: mayb Commentsthis site describes very briefly the way how the cost leadership works. Pseudonym: evaldepenas CommentsThis article talks about the competitive strategies that are often used, and there are some good examples from each one. Pseudonym: Bigrod CommentsGreat snapshot definition about IT. Pseudonym: fjteran Commentsthe site focus on strategic management. it describes value chains; how they are conformed the site also anylises and describes the value system Pseudonym: peter CommentsGives a detailed defenition of cost leadership and how it could be used to get an advantage. Pseudonym: Robocop CommentsPros and cons of a virtual company Pseudonym: Elsa Commentsthis is an interview of the Computer Editor Peter Burrows that talks about the innovation of Apple that they grew so fast making technology. Pseudonym: utrebor CommentsBrian Waves describes IT and competitive advantage. Pseudonym: ssotelo2 CommentsSweet and simple aticle on the development of mass customization, the production process, the production process, the customer, and the company. Pseudonym: jess_rocha24 CommentsThis article explains what strategic information is through the Porter's Strategic Theory which is a competitve strategy used by the corporations to achieve its organisation's overall objectives. Pseudonym: anolivas2 CommentsIt shows that the strateic plan needs a change because it needs to support new roles in information system and technology. Pseudonym: cpavilar CommentsCompanies are always trying to find ways to differentiate themselves from their competitors. In this article, this analyst provides reasons for why Apple's competitive advantage has become "recession proof" throughout the last two years. Apple's innovative ways of doing business comes from them having one of the largest online retail stores to having some of the best hardware. Their innovations with the iphone, ipod, ipad, have become huge successes. These are just a few ways that Apple has differentiated themselves from some of their strongest competitors. Pseudonym: celecampos CommentsI would recommend this website because it contains plenty of useful information. It gives the format indicated in chapter 2. Pseudonym: rmartinez2007 CommentsThis site was helpful becasue it helps organizations effectively use Knowledge Management to further impact business results. Pseudonym: superman CommentsThe website is very interesting because it describes new innovative products that have emerged and analyzes those products to see if they are worth the time and effort. Pseudonym: zephyrus CommentsCompetitive advantage is when competitors gain an advantage by offering greater value to consumers. Michael Porter suggested four strategies to gain competitive advantage. The four strategies are differentiation, cost leadership, differentiation focus, cost focus. Businesses can use these strategies if they want to seek competitive advantage either in a broad range of markets or differentiate their products. Pseudonym: lizita CommentsI like the way they do the definitions because they give you an example of the word. Pseudonym: Florencia CommentsThis is an in-depth analysis of what consitutes the cost-leadership strategy. It entails cost-reduction strategies and value-creating activities. It is straight to the point, so it is a great link. Pseudonym: chuyo CommentsOn this page you can see that an expert discribes what strategic information system is; Also on this website the author is wrating how strategic information works in a company which I think it is important in real life Pseudonym: nikki3742 CommentsThis site thoroughly explains every form of challenge pertaining to IT. In every form (ethical, societal, etc), this site seperates every challenge and lists pros and cons that surround it. Topics dicussed are effects of IT on health, business ethics, copyright laws and intellectual theft, etc. It also goes over the consequences of breaching these laws and rights which to a certain extent are the defenses of IT. Pseudonym: Louis Vuitton CommentsThis is a very good article which talks about business alliances and gives brief descriptions of them. Pseudonym: mdruiz_airam Commentsnot very complete Pseudonym: Deseo41 CommentsI chose this website because it is very helpful. I like how the website provided a self-Assessment to see if your company is ready for a change. Pseudonym: Peque467 CommentsThis document begins by defining what an industry is and explaining that Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model , or what we simply know as the Factors Influencing Competitive Forces, is used to asses the competition in an industry. The five forces impacting the profitability are named and described as shown in the class lecture followed by the competitive strategies; these are explained using examples. I liked the website because it was very similar to the powerpoint slides and it was easy to comprehend. Pseudonym: Ida CommentsI really like this website because it tells you what do you need to do and what tools to use to be a virtual company. It is a powerpoint presentation. Pseudonym: binnie333 CommentsThis is a report that was done to study the factor that influence suppliers in a specific market. It's tedious Pseudonym: devilray CommentsThis site explains the concept of strategic information systems. It identified the key features Pseudonym: ewheelz08 CommentsI like how this article really does a great job at identifying Value Chains also providing a little bit of history. I usually never like to pick wikipedia documents because they are said that they are not reliable but I believe that out of all the documents regarding value chains this was one of the best in explaining it. Pseudonym: Guess CommentsThis website gives arelly good detail definition of competitive advantage. Pseudonym: raulalexjoey CommentsAs one navigates through this site, one will notice that it is loaded with information on various business tips. These tips include strategies a company should implement if they are to be successful! The link attached, in particular, lists the "10 commandments of innovation"! These 10 commandments are powerful as it's something to keep in mind with what ever may come one's way! Pseudonym: aguillen4 Commentsit shows first the background of IS its starts describing it with a small introduction that is very goood to understand and easy it explains how it develope and continues with the stratetic theories it shows diagras and very good content to make it easy for us to understand.. Pseudonym: aamarr CommentsThis is an article that is a detailed guide on how to create a strategic information system for an organization. It describes the key objectives, characteristics, risks and benefits to each methodology of SIS. Pseudonym: Pnjr CommentsHere we see innovation and differentiation with this product. Sprint introduces the first 4G smart phone (in north america). The reviews are coming in and they are " loving it". Pseudonym: thebluecar CommentsAn insight to what competitive strategy is Pseudonym: mespi CommentsThe new inventions made us to innovation our life. i think is is good but not at all because we did't know the consecuences Pseudonym: ra7opez Commentsthis is an attempt of competitive strategy from target to compete with walmart. This will see a bigger layout for the electronics of the store hoping to bring more people in. Pseudonym: ancy CommentsThis web page only provides a brief explanation about competitive advantages. Basically it states that a company that has competitive advanages is one that its profits exceeds from other industries using the best resources they have to achive this. Pseudonym: ai1102 CommentsThis article is very informative it tells us some tips and advise to become a virtual company. Pseudonym: Hollywood CommentsGood short, brief, and to the the point article that co-insides well with the class lecture slides for Chapter 2. Pseudonym: bettyb00p CommentsVery clear website with very clear steps of supply chain management Pseudonym: won CommentsVery good and clear to understand. Pseudonym: Changoleon Commentsgood website Pseudonym: mglh CommentsThis article shows the virtual company today. Pseudonym: egmzlh CommentsThis website summarizes competitive advantage. One example is cost leadership, which produces the lowest cost products. A specific example of cost leadership is Dell Computers. Pseudonym: Shina CommentsThis article explains some of the competitive strategies a company can take according with which competitive advantage and scope the company take. Pseudonym: juarg921 CommentsGives kind of like a Q & A on how to make your company a good one, by basically summarizing what we looked at in chapter 3 Pseudonym: apeguo CommentsThis site provides an article that its mainly concerned with the utilisations of information technology as a source ofcompetitive advantage. Pseudonym: Student4 CommentsDescribes all of the possible strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Pseudonym: lifeisgood CommentsWith a virtual company you can work in your pijamas. Pseudonym: jrodr655 Commentsinteresting reading and also, gives example of great corporations related to the topic Pseudonym: basketball CommentsThis website gave me a better understanding of the value chain analysis. Pseudonym: Jollyngo CommentsWell, this page has an overview about strategic information systems as well as a general defition. Also, it explains something abour Porter's Comperitive Advantage and Wiseman's Strategic Perspective View. Good Page! Pseudonym: Purple05 CommentsThis website it is really good. It starts by explaining, what a value chain is, then later goes further in describing the activities, cost advantage,differentiation and many more. Pseudonym: El Matador CommentsThe website itself does provide detail information regarding IS from where it's history down to the present day today... Pseudonym: kite22 Commentsfirm is able to deliver same benefits but at a lower cost Pseudonym: ceapod1015 Commentsits a good website, with lots of examples and tons of detail Pseudonym: fox12rider CommentsChapter 2 is partly about companies having a competitive, strategic advantages. Innovative Interfaces library company explains how they use many information system partnerships to have the ultimate information system. They want to have the reliable productivity tools available. Pseudonym: alix7 CommentsThis site gives an important insight in the concept of value chain, concept that represents a competitive advantage for a firm and that adds a great value to it. Pseudonym: haaa CommentsIt gives people idea what is information technology and also talks about jobs in IT, and some popular Information Technology skills. This website gives people a good idea what is IT. Pseudonym: liltweetaf CommentsThis site was very interesting to explore since it mostly talks about the future and what business organizations can expect. The professor talks about "data fluidity value" and other concepts that talk about how all the information being stored is useless if it doesn't get to the right person at the right time. Either way, this site was quite interesting regarding competitive necessity that will be needed in the future. Pseudonym: hello kitty CommentsIt shows the idea in theory and in practice Pseudonym: Buttons CommentsThis reference covers what we discussed in class regarding the cost leadership that Wal-Mart has. The article covers the six strategies in detail which are 1. an innovative warehousing system, 2. an emphasis on everyday low prices, 3. basing store design on consumer studies, 4. effective use of superstores, 5. using size to negotiate for the best price on brand-name items, and 6. an industry leading inventory control system. It explains how effective these 6 strategies have been and the success it has brought to the company. Pseudonym: Sunshine444 CommentsA five step method and different aspects of business process reengineering Pseudonym: ilivac Commentsbrief information about comparative advantage and information technology Pseudonym: batrueba CommentsUnderstand the amount being spent on development and modernization of IT versus the amount being spent on operating and maintaining the status quo for IT Pseudonym: radioactive Commentsit gives a brief description of what are strategic information systems and its purposes Pseudonym: nanis CommentsThis website includes like a powerpoint presentation about the five competitive strategies and its advantages. It shows information about the definition and objective of each one of the strategies. Pseudonym: poseidon316 CommentsThis particular site defines Information Technology (IT) and the various aspects that cover IT. Pseudonym: muchThanMore CommentsInteresting article giving information on oDeck, a virtual company selling management computer software, and on how employees still value their institutions rather than working from home. Pseudonym: omgcisroxors CommentsBrief article explaining the difference between CIS, MIS, and IT. Pseudonym: hamburger CommentsOur primary focus has been to develop economies of scale in the information technology arena. By utilizing shared hardware, software, licenses, and support staff, our customers avoid most costs associated with locally owned and operated IT support functions. Pseudonym: cosmic Commentsthis site gives you alot of info about binary codes Pseudonym: cosmic Commentsvery good info about binary codes Pseudonym: pipo Commentsnot bad , but it could be better . Pseudonym: pipo Commentsthey , talk about how develop, a new company with this specifications. Pseudonym: Blanka CommentsIt is imperative for organizations to consist of perennial changes in order to stay afloat in the market. Pseudonym: Damar CommentsThis website is really useful because you can find a very nice an concise abstract about what information technology means, and how is becoming a very important tool for business nowadays. Also the webpages provides more links related to the main topic. Pseudonym: erjem89 CommentsA useful resource, even has a model to show how the advantage of competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Milan CommentsThis site explains things easier for me in a way i can understand the differences. Pseudonym: Tom Brady Commentsgood details, and explains well Pseudonym: pichu Commentseasy to read, short and gets the point through. Pseudonym: ange CommentsLearned that the most extreme virtual company is the one with virtual employees. Pseudonym: calle8 CommentsThe homepage describes the value chain, its components' definitions and it shows a simple chart of it. Pseudonym: Mickey Mouse CommentsThe article explains what Competitive Advantage is and how to achieve it. Pseudonym: fceleste11 CommentsTo keep a high competitive advantage IT technology as a product and service is necessary. Pseudonym: holydio58 Commentsit contains a basic information of the topic with a series of links in case the user needs more about this subject Pseudonym: psych CommentsI really like this article in this web site. It give you a good ideas on how to become a virtual company or if you want to start out as a virtual company. Pseudonym: Air Jordan CommentsI thought article was very interesting in describing tacit and explicit knowledge. Pseudonym: Carina CommentsVery good reference about Strategic Information Systems in my opinion. Describes very well the five basic competitive forces, very helpful. Pseudonym: Betty Boop CommentsThis case examines in-depth the key elements of the cost leadership strategy followed by Wal-Mart. Pseudonym: Ricardo CommentsThis is a good article that provides the advantages and disadvantages of creating a virtual company. Pseudonym: TooTall CommentsEasy to read and understand to get a better idea on what competitive advantage is all about. Pseudonym: Shelly CommentsGives alot of information on cost leadership not just a definition. good for reaserch. Pseudonym: Betty CommentsStrategic planning is very important for the organization, is the ideal way by which the organization have realized goals at all types of industries and the most used by many managers in their workplace. Pseudonym: evylia CommentsI choose this publication, because is very wide in the explanation of strategic information systems. This publication gives an overview and a general definition of strategic information systems where it explains the factors influencing competitive forces and the competitive strategies that are available. Pseudonym: sfbaker CommentsGood article. It just explains some of the chapters topics a little more, for those who need. Pseudonym: blah74 CommentsThis website provides an in depth explanation of the five competitive forces that business strategies are developed to employ or avoid. This is a great website because it gives examples of each force and how they relate to topics every business deals with. Pseudonym: RINCON CommentsEven with a known high failure rate, the pressures of global economic competition seem to be the catalyst for companies to undergo the risky task of reengineering its business processes. Whether a business’s attempt at reengineering is successful or not can be attributed to how talented and involved the top management team is from beginning to end. This venture requires a vast investment of time and resources; but if successful reengineering is attained, the company can be looking at 10-20% overall gains in performance. Pseudonym: firebrand5 CommentsThis article features 7 virtual management companies. The article answers the following questions about each company: 1) The company name 2) Where/how the company got its name 3) The company's headquarters location 4) The date the company was founded 5) What the company offers/does 6) Where the company gets its funding, and 7) Why the company is worth watching It is an interesting article about different virtual companies and what their purpose is. It had great research on the each company's purpose for existance, funding and what exactly it does. Pseudonym: DBMS21 CommentsKinda self-explanatory, Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Pseudonym: ram9849 CommentsThis show how small companies can compete with big companies. Pseudonym: paris123 CommentsGood Information. Pseudonym: jcfan CommentsThis site is interesting but not sure if really has to do with IT much. Pseudonym: Pearl321 CommentsA well written paper on Strategic Information Systems along with an extensive reference list as well as exposing the weaknesses of his own theory. Pseudonym: xpicti77 CommentsWikipedia gives a great overview of strategic information systems. It also talks about Dr. Micahael E. Porter's competitive advantage. Pseudonym: zhiio.26 CommentsThis website is good in describing what strategic information systems are. It gives a very brief and understandable definition. I like it because it includes the description of the writers Michael Porter with competitive advantage and the value chain, Charles Wiseman with strategic perspective view and the strategic planning process among others. Pseudonym: BereM89 CommentsThe article named Strategic Information System explain how the SIS works for the company. It is useful to resolve and find the compnay's needs and goals. Pseudonym: K. C. Browndog CommentsThe Journal of Strategic Information Systems focuses on the management, business and organizational issues associated with the introduction and utilization of information systems as a strategic tool, and considers these issues in a global context Pseudonym: mila CommentsVery good powerpoint presentation. The concept is very well summarized and easy to read. It also covered everything we discussed in class. Pseudonym: D&J Commentsit's an activities model that helps by providing the value of a product or service Pseudonym: J&M Commentsmany specific informacion Pseudonym: vjbarron CommentsGreat way to get a new start-up going!! Pseudonym: 1lpcanales Commentsthis website tell us about the importance of information system, its really important to work in order Pseudonym: taxxygirl CommentsThought this site was really cool. There is a journal specifically written about strategic information systems. This site lets you see the abstract descriptions of articles, gives top ten articles, but to see full text you have to purchase the journal or the articles individually. I just thought it was interesting that this competitive strategy had it's own culture. Pseudonym: duccis CommentsThis website provides "Four Types of Successful Customer Loyalty Programs and an Example for Each" allowing you to expand your knowledge about how these customer loyalty programs work and also get some ideas on how to apply them. Pseudonym: arizona CommentsThis journal provides besides the concet a more wide outlook on how Information System have become such a necessary tool for all busineess in our modern days. I read it, and got a real life concept of how important and neccesary for busineess technoligy is now days and the easier, and faster it made our busineess on this global market. Pseudonym: PoxFlaza Commentswebpages offers a brief description of competing with Information Systems. Pseudonym: dgarci07 CommentsIt is very interesting to see all the brands that are competing with each other and how they all are developing products at a fast pace. Pseudonym: Dance21 CommentsIf you plan on becoming an entrepreneur, then this is the article to read! Pseudonym: Majik8fx CommentsWell rounded with information to ask yourself along with information for succeeding. Site also offers slide shows done by professionals (at a cost) under topics ranging from mainting advantage, rivalries, and causing disruption for other companies. Pseudonym: cade136 CommentsInteresting material Pseudonym: Shadowmyst CommentsGives a comparision of the different strategies of cost leadership and differentiation. It also talks about 2 other forms which are related to cost leadership and differentiation. Pseudonym: orange_shoes Commentsthis a good example of how IT helps and save money to companies Pseudonym: Greek Goddess CommentsIt helps us to understand that consumer needs are not only what the say, we have to learn how to identify their needs eventough consumers are not aware of them. Pseudonym: dms♥ Commentsthe website gives a complete definition of tacit knowledge. I think that it is a useful source to better understand this definition. It also includes were the tacit knowledge word was from or was introduce from giving us a little bit of background of the word. Pseudonym: 60cougars Commentsit basically provides a summary and timeline of the first compueters that were invented and by they were invented Pseudonym: AirenRenal CommentsPretty general with the information not so detailed Pseudonym: viggo010 Commentsprovides definition, history, departments, skills, certifications and jobs on Information Technology Pseudonym: malasinfonia Commentsits a short webasite that talks about three things, decision support,Primarly enterprise, and database system Pseudonym: The Fox CommentsA good thorough description of competitive strategies Pseudonym: BayernMünchen CommentsIn today's lightening quick markets. Computers play an integral role in gaining edge on competition when it comes to high frequency trading. They can also prove to be the detriment to the markets as well. Pseudonym: Esco_sw7 CommentsThe best japanese companies offer a guide to the organizational roles, structures, and practices that produce continuous innovation. Pseudonym: Chubaka CommentsThe website explains what knowledge management is and how it can be used. It also explains how members of an organization can effectively use their knowledge in situations today,for a better future. Pseudonym: El Matador CommentsThe site itself does provide wih alot of information regarding the usage of IT in the modern world...do is boring due that is all slides.... Pseudonym: Tyson CommentsI knew that internet business's like Ebay and Amazon were extremely sucessfull, but after reading this article, I started to wonder if I could create an online business. This article describes virtual companies like "the fassion industry". It is becoming ever more popular. Online banking has increased over the years, and you can purchase nearly anything ever imagined over the internet. Pseudonym: olak2934 CommentsContains great articles about how companies use strategic information systems. Pseudonym: jrn1382 Commentsgood site gives you a good definition of what a virtual corporation is. Pseudonym: NOLIMIT Commentsvery interesting it goes into describing of one of the most talked about subjects which is knowledge in management and how can it help you be much more productive. Pseudonym: swimming89 CommentsThis site explains that power and strength of an industry falls under two headings, cost advantage and product differentiation. Pseudonym: churchill Commentsartical on the rise of the virtual computer. exciting stuff. Pseudonym: arabian CommentsPerhaps this site can work a little bit more on it's appearance on the website. However, The information is well communicated on their website. Pseudonym: Eris CommentsGives a short but sweet pros and cons list dealing with Information Technologies, detailing it's usefulness. Pseudonym: JesseJames CommentsThis gives the reader a good basis to start asking the right questions involved with becoming a more agile company. Pseudonym: Aria CommentsA competitive advantage exists when the firm is able to deliver the same benefits as competitors but at a lower cost, or deliever that exceed those of competing products. Pseudonym: Coe CommentsBasic Key Features of Strategic Information Systems. Pseudonym: dejavu_08 CommentsCompetitive advantage is when a firm is capable of sustaining profits that are considered to be above average for its specific industry. Throughout time, this should remain to be the firm’s main goal, and should strive towards accomplishing it. This website was helpful because it certainly went in-depth and gave numerous examples. Pseudonym: dcbfan04 CommentsThe author of this article, dating back to 1995, gives the reader tips on how to begin a virtual company. I'm sure that since 1995, virtual companies have evolved in means of communication within the company. Pseudonym: Clara4 CommentsThis website gives a brief description on knowledge management. It mentions how an important of Knowledge management is the customer relationship management system (CRM). Also the goal for knowledge management is to create end user self- service; ensuring answers to be found without the need to speak to an individual in person. Pseudonym: Pacman CommentsThe site simplifies the meaning of competitive advantage. It breaks it up into sections first explaining what it is and then going more detail into it. The site has a small little chart to help better explain things and it also has recommended books to read to better understand the topic. Pseudonym: sherrera3 CommentsThe article gives examples with entrepreneurs and how they used the 5 factors to their advantage. Pseudonym: Lady Jane CommentsAfter all, this is a very good web site to define business terms because they explain the word Competitive forces clear,concise and comprensive at this website. Pseudonym: timbo slice CommentsSidera Networks formed together with the Northalsted Business Alliance to provide wireless broadband access to businesses and residents in Chicago's Northalsted community. This new wireless internet project shows how an alliance between two seperate parties can benefit both parties and help them grow. Now the Northalsted community has wireless internet access, and the Sidera Network is expanding to new clientele to help their business expand and increase their revenues. Pseudonym: Lulu! CommentsIn this specific reference, the steps of "organizational design" are broken down. The phases include: definition, behavior, function, product of category, customer of market, geography, and matrix. All of the following promote a clearer take on the redesign rather than a misconception of real change. Pseudonym: cosmo CommentsThe following website has a lecture about chapter two: Competing with information technology. It contains clear definitions about the terms we just go over in class. It is good and complete . Pseudonym: sal Commentsvalue chain analysis will help you to understand the whole concept Pseudonym: Azeliz CommentsThis website explains why mass production is not effective in today's world anymore. Instead, mass customization is the quality of an agile company that can adapt quickly to changing circumstances. Pseudonym: RED CommentsFed Ex Office allows people to send/receive faxes, email, video conferencing, publications, etc.. Pseudonym: dism CommentsThis website explain the strategic information system and the 3 primary keys as 1) Decision support systems that enable to develop a strategic approach to align Information Systems (IS) or Information Technologies 2) Primarily Enterprise resource planning solutions that integrate/link the business processes to meet the enterprise objectives for the optimization of the enterprise resources and 3) Database systems with the "data mining" capabilities to make the best use of available corporate information for marketing, production, promotion and innovation. The SIS systems also facilitate identification of the data collection strategies to help optimize database marketing opportunities. Pseudonym: Kalia CommentsThe article goes further in depth about value chains and helps you understand how to achieve adding value to your product or service. Pseudonym: Tarantino CommentsGives an overall view of how Knowledge Management system works. From giving the background, how it works to maintaining it. It explains how it gathers knowledge that is already available and stores it. It a detailed article in Knowledge management systems. Pseudonym: MikeyAM CommentsAbout Strategic Information Systems and Gloablization Pseudonym: GaGaGalore Commentsinteresting to know about organizations that exist but only in their actions and not at a specific plant or location. Pseudonym: yaibon CommentsVery easy way to explain what a strategic information system is Pseudonym: ketchup452 CommentsMy comment on this website is I liked the how it goes into deep specific details. Pseudonym: NICHOLIN CommentsI liked it, it was very interesting. Pseudonym: ilianealexi CommentsA description on how using a website can give a firm competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Goku CommentsThis research paper is very informational. Pseudonym: 100percent CommentsHere is a closer look at the concept of value chain and its importance for business to achieve a competitive advantage. Pseudonym: gcastrellon CommentsI read what the site has to say, even though that it is wikipedia and that it is supposed to be not very reliable, i was able to understand what an IT is and does, and also a little about where it first started Pseudonym: black&pink CommentsThis article divides competitive strategies into four categoriers:First Cost leadership which is where a company out-prices its comopetitors by reducing cost, second Differentiation where a company pushes a key product to beat its competitors, third Focus where a company targets a specific group. It was an informative easy to read article. Pseudonym: USMC 1/4 CommentsGreat article of how this company planned redesign of their strategic information systems in one month, which takes 6 months to do. Pseudonym: TAC-04 CommentsThe webpge includes a diagram that describes porter's model. It has a detailed explanation of each one of the five forces Pseudonym: da_real_deal CommentsBusinessweek has always been one of my favorite sites, and after reading this article, it still is a favorite. It explains how Apple has managed to remain as an influential product in years. Steve Jobs' idea of combining "technical knowhow with a new concept for how to sell music online" is amazing and will continue to amaze people around the business world. Pseudonym: 1234 CommentsI really liked this chapter as it shows competitiveness within companies and the different terms used to describe it. Now a days this is a very common thing as every company is fighting to be top of mind number one within their market. Pseudonym: prodas01 CommentsThis website gives you an example of what is it that virtual company strategies use. an example given in the lecture was cisco, the world’s largest supplier of telecom-munications product. Pseudonym: celticfan1 CommentsVery good website. Can learn a lot from it. Pseudonym: julian20 CommentsThe article was very informative about how the cost leadership strategy works. It explains how competitors must either sell there products at the average price to gain a profit in the market or sell at a lower price to gain a market share. The industry that can obtain the lower cost materials can remain profitable for a longer amount of time and maintains a stable competitive advantage in the market. Pseudonym: Prog Shredder Commentsarticle with various CEO's stating how IT has helped them Pseudonym: the_situation CommentsThis article truly shows Apple's commitment to information technology and its study of it to move ahead of the competion. Pseudonym: It_G.O.D Commentsthis is a ood site for ref. Pseudonym: bambino CommentsThe website provide reasons why entrepreneurs have been going virtual Pseudonym: amadeus CommentsVarious business people discuss how technology allows them to compete with the "big boys." Pseudonym: 007cupcake CommentsI really liked this article, because it explained how important it is to satisfy the needs of your customers in any business. You must base your business on your customers and not your business,and building a realtionship with your customers really enhances your chances they will be loyal to your business. Pseudonym: superman1124 Commentsthe iphone is a very unique product that other companies try to compete with but can't match up, which makes this a perfect example of compatitive strategy: inovation. this article talks about the possibilities of the new iphone and what features can be new with the release of the new iphone. i like this article because i'm interested in new unique technologies that are availabe for me. Pseudonym: tesla CommentsUses different links of different websites that can direct you to as many information regarding the process of reengineeing and business innovation Pseudonym: smestrada3 CommentsThis webstie helped me identify several strategic uses of information technologies for electronic business and commerce, as well as showing me examples of how they give competitive advantages to a business. Pseudonym: fashion CommentsThe site above help me have a better understanding of how innovation develops in Bussiness. Which is a development of unique products. Pseudonym: babas16 Commentsinnovettion is something that is introduced to public when a invetion is completed and proven it works. Pseudonym: yisuarez CommentsThe website provides about knowledge management and why is it so important to each and every one of us. Knowledge-creating companies or learning organizations consistently create new business knowledge, disseminate knowledge widely throughout the company and quickly build new knowledge into products and services. Pseudonym: alesi624 CommentsWith use of Information Technology, our world is much more complex, to the production and management of big businesses that have competed to use forms of technologies to better improve our societies and how information technology is effective in almost every means. Pseudonym: me1414 CommentsThis site discusses how reeingineering became a buzz word in the 1990s. It talks about how the word redesigned business processes. Pseudonym: Bittersweet CommentsI found this website very interesting and helpful Pseudonym: erikemt CommentsI found this website very interesting, Creativity Hacks is an E-Book of creativity tools and strategies to generate profitable ideas. Today business needs people who can see things differently and who has creative solutions to problems. Pseudonym: Eli CommentsIn this website, talks about how the new businesses are taking changes in their companies to keep up or improve their business for the better. Pseudonym: TheCoolest CommentsThis website helped me better understand the term 'Leverage investment in IT'. Pseudonym: la peque Commentscompetitive analysis is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the competitors within your market, however, there are some strategies that will provide a distinct advantage, the barriers that can be developed in order to prevent competition from entering your market, and any weaknesses that can be exploited within the product development cycle. A competitor analysis is to identify the current and potential competition. I think is really interesting this webpages talks about different business strategies and steps in competitor analysis. Pseudonym: TAGH05 CommentsThe site has six different sections that go more in deep about the concept of KMS (knowledge management systems). It uses the example of a banks savings account and it goes on to extend the concept. Pseudonym: peace CommentsIt talks about the importance of technology in our lives. Pseudonym: novpiece24 Commentslots of useful information Pseudonym: jdrummer23 CommentsA Great look at the Value Chain Pseudonym: fvazquez CommentsThis website explains how Wal-Mart has grown since its started. And it about page 5 of the article it starts explaining of its competitive strategies that has used. Pseudonym: papayon CommentsIt talks about the buyer-supplier importance in the IT Pseudonym: sdominguez9 Commentsthis page provides some characterictics of each force Pseudonym: BellA CommentsThis site is talking about how you can be sucessfull using Open Source Software. Every once in a while, somebody on the Business of Software forums asks whether there is any point to trying to compete with open source software (OSS — essentially, software anyone can use and modify without needing to pay money or receive permission). Pseudonym: idoneus CommentsThe article goes into detail as how KMS functions as well as what is needed to have a KMS. Pseudonym: soldaditodpomo CommentsIt is good that industries start going green, because not only helps environment but also lowers cost Pseudonym: zeus50 CommentsPresents a relevant position into the competion between social media outlets Pseudonym: Doddo CommentsIn this book written by Michael E. Porter explains and reinstate the factors that determine Competitive Advantage for companies. According to Porter competitive advantage is the most important thing for companies within competitive market. He explains that it determines de growth and diversification of a company. Also, he points out how companies nowadays are expanding their products to all places in the world and how they became as global competitors (Preface 1). He mentioned that competitive is not about if a company is good or bad, there are some aspects that are used to determine the effectiveness of competition. For example, a company that has good competitive strategies, but it is not within a very well profitably industry; it has the risk of losing money. In the other hand, a company that has not a very well competitive advantage, but it makes its products necessary to the costumers the company will have more chances to success. Also, he mentioned that a company most of the cases must to convert its costumers to its products; this means that costumers adopt the trends of the company (Porter 2). Finally, competitive advantage can be determined in company efficiency in producing goods. For instance, a firm became more competitive if it produces more good at lower cost per unit with good quality. Also, if it produces something that has high demand within the market, for example, El Paso Electric Company has control over the market because it is the only one that has the infrastructure to provide electricity and everybody needs electricity. Pseudonym: DCar CommentsI now see why in a world with so many similar products, how product differentiation can really make one product stand out over another. Pseudonym: candycandy Commentsthis is another explanation of competative srategy that goes more in examples of that each strategy works. Pseudonym: static69 CommentsGreat article describing competitive advantage vs. competitive necessity. Pseudonym: BettyLove CommentsIt provides background information about innovation and explains the Value Reference Model very well. Pseudonym: cocktail Commentsvery important to know the difference between these two types of knowledge. one is based on personal experience (tacit) and the explicit is based on written documents. Pseudonym: pavito CommentsA five page article on how many companies have decided to leave the office environment to start a virtual company. Good Pseudonym: hericosi Commentsit is very interesting Pseudonym: psg Commentsthis site helped me understanding the basic theory of knowledge creation and it also gives you a lot of others websites to get a better understanding Pseudonym: Kiki CommentsThis truly invisions what apple is really good at. It is interesting how they manage to always have the advantage of coming up with innovative products im the technology indusdtry. Pseudonym: blue CommentsProducts pass through all activities of the chain in order, and at each activity the product gains some value. The chain of activities gives the products more added value than the sum of the independent activity's value. It is important not to mix the concept of the value chain with the costs occurring Pseudonym: malm_2002 CommentsWise Geek website is a webpage that explains you, what is information technology , on a simple and complex form, it gives you links to related articles. Nice website to surf on. Pseudonym: Lolita CommentsThis is a very interesting article that provides examples from small-business CEOs on how they take advantage of Information Systems to make their businesses more profitable. Pseudonym: alesi24 CommentsWith use of Information Technology, our world is much more complex, to the production and management of big businesses that have competed to use forms of technologies to better improve our societies and how information technology is effective in almost every means. Pseudonym: Chikis17 CommentsThe Path of Development of Strategic Information Systems Theory Pseudonym: sdavid Commentsexplain what is a good decition to make a ggood strategic Pseudonym: Afrodita CommentsAn IT services based economy is very important for consumers and industry. It helps to keep the prices as low as possible and it contributes to more competition. Service oriented architecture SOA and cloud computing are types of IT technology innovation and will help develop IT service based economy. IT services-based economy has some significant deterrents in business; the most critical being adherence to service level agreements (SLA) and security. SOA is the model for delivery of everything as a service: software, hardware, telecommunications, call center, marketing, etc. If something can be compartmentalized with a formalized input and result, and can be measured, then it can be delivered as a service. Services working together to provide a more comprehensive offering is SOA. Cloud computing is the extension of this archetype for delivery of computing services, typically over the public Internet. The expectation of SLA are sometimes out of place. Not always is convenient for a business to have it. On the contrary, for service providers it is always the best option. SLA is a legally binding contract that specifies the relationships between service provider and consumer. However, in most of the cases the company is favored not the user. In business it is important that the service provider offer a minimum of level of service. Most of the time, they have to negotiate. In case that there is no demand then business should not consider SLA The low cost and high speed interned helps to rise the IT services based economy. In most of the cases the companies install software and hardware that is managed locally by them. Most of the time it is backed up by outside contractors. When the need for more advance high speed band, mobile and wireless is appropriate when they have higher demand and off course they can buy more sophisticated equipment that allows tape based data, transfers and transaction fees. In all, it is important to take advantage of the IT service for the business but we need to be careful if it is proper for each type of busines. Pseudonym: linux07ster Commentsprice of differentiated product must exceed cost of differntiating Pseudonym: mid[MAN]dle'87 CommentsI had to download a powerpoint to get information Pseudonym: Batman CommentsThis page explains the importance of computer and network security within a corporation and the possible extent of electives with in. Pseudonym: cachuchin Commentsexplains in deept the study of strategic information systems Pseudonym: BellA CommentsTechnology is no longer an afterthought in business strategy, but the cause and driver can change the way businesses compete. A strategic information system is any information system that uses IT to help an organization… Gain a competitive advantage Reduce a competitive disadvantage Or meet other strategic enterprise objectives Pseudonym: julian20 CommentsThis wikipedia website gives a great description on the value chains, how they work and what is required of them. It gives you some history on where the value chain orginiated, and the person who popularized it. Pseudonym: TxBond72 CommentsPDF link of how strategic planning methods are introduced into the business environment Pseudonym: brucewayne Commentsthis page shows a handbook for BOLS Pseudonym: Batman CommentsTalks about career opportunities in computer and network security Pseudonym: Batman CommentsThis shows the functions and reasoning for computer in simple terms. Pseudonym: jazz Commentsthis article have a little more information. Pseudonym: dianita Commentsthis is also slide shows that give more information which it can help Pseudonym: Apod28 CommentsI thought this website was very brief in describing what a SIS, but it had good information. Pseudonym: aapoda56 CommentsDefines strategic information systems and mentions some of the competitive advantages within the business world. Pseudonym: Carlos CommentsAgain i used a lecture overview to understand more on Chapter 2, the lecture helped me going through concepts such as the Competitive Strategy concepts. The lecture however is very long and in some cases differ from the information on the slides so i didnt rely so much on this, so i used it only to understand more on on competitive strategy concepts. Pseudonym: Teddy CommentsThis site shows the importance of business creating a competitive advantage in this case through loyalty programs. This strategy is used to lock in customers by delivering an extra benefit. Pseudonym: Jessiesgirl Commentsnot that good. Pseudonym: juice CommentsThis website was more of a how to keep your customers with you and the ways to keep them. It goes into detail of how to keep them also while also explaining what we learned in class. Pseudonym: Pookie CommentsThis is a nice article that would be great for a company thinking of switching has breif descriptions of how to become an agile company and a series of questions that the company should consider when switching. Pseudonym: Kayyy9 CommentsThis website expain how companies in today's business world are forced to adapt to the ongoing changes within society in order to stay competitive. It also gives steps in how to do so. Pseudonym: oza Commentsexplains well the five competitive strategies Pseudonym: vj2366 CommentsGives a better understanding of how to start one off and shows how a virtual company works. Pseudonym: Ayva CommentsThe resulting diamond of strategic information management consists of the following components: • business strategy • organizational strategy • information systems strategy • information management strategy Pseudonym: Ulloa CommentsIt explains the use of agile tools Pseudonym: mafalda CommentsI like the diagram the article has at the beginning, it is easier to understand when visualizing it like this. This articles gives a detailed explanation of each of the five competitive forces. Pseudonym: Dance2989 CommentsThis website gives you some of the keyfeatures of Strategic Information Systems. Pseudonym: pollo CommentsThis decribes the definition of Competitive Advantage. It gives a good explanation on this subject Pseudonym: josjim007 CommentsThe site provides detailed information of how the KM approach inables institutions to gain a comprehensive, integrative, and reflexive view of the impact of information technologies. Pseudonym: BP34 CommentsThis website gives a good definition about what is Strategic IS. Pseudonym: 12mrk CommentsBy going virtual, companies are able to find the capital and labor to fund and give them access to more research and/or assets to find a cure for skin cancer, etc. Pseudonym: peche Commentsit gives you and example of how you can form a virtual company and how successful it can become, this site also explains you what virtual strategy is about.. according with this site In a virtual company, you join with others — also often sole proprietors — to bring your individual strengths, expertise and capabilities together. This enables you to more successfully market to and serve clients, and land bigger jobs. Pseudonym: ypier CommentsThis site was informative and linked value chain analysis to competitive advantages. Pseudonym: orrj CommentsInteresting article on how to create a virtual business, stated benefits of this type of business. Pseudonym: Leah CommentsI've read articles before on this website. I was surprised to learn that IT is not that important in Chinese businesses. Pseudonym: Gael CommentsThis website belongs to a company who provides data services for other companies. Their purpose is to enable better decision-making. Their main strategies include implementing low cost, high performance, and meaningful business applications that enable their clients to visualize what is real and respond with more profitable decisions. Pseudonym: Ale CommentsThis website shows a timeline of how Apple innovated in the past 30 years, it is very interesting how they transformed tecnhology and become in the company they are Pseudonym: 1_CDubbs CommentsThis website went ahead and explained strategic advantages for IT in a business/organization: (1) How to architect your organization around IT. (2) Frameworks for fitting IT into your business strategy. (3) Strategies to improve customer intimacy using the Internet. (4) Business models for strategic use of computing and e-commerce. Good source Pseudonym: lMarieO CommentsIn this site more examples and discussion are provided about the factors that influence competitive forces. Pseudonym: lMarieO CommentsIn this site more examples and discussions are provided about the factors that influence competitive forces. Pseudonym: fox Commentsit was not a very good artical it was to short and gave very little in dept detail of the system( it was just a overveiw) Pseudonym: fiquinones Commentsthis website give us the Foundations of Information in Business and help us understand more this chapter Pseudonym: Alicia CommentsI really like this topic because I would like to get as much information as possible in how to be successful in a small business. Competitive Advantage it very important because it teach us the nature of the degree of competition in the industry. Pseudonym: dillon0622 CommentsThe website provides detail information of how firms have enforced a top down system (strategic panning) in order to maintain a well established firm. It discusses the mission of the system, the objectives of how its been so successful, the situation analysis, strategy formulation, implementation,control and the drawbacks the system has. Pseudonym: trublu212 CommentsThis website goes more in depth on the five competitive forces that shape the structure of competition. It even has links to other areas included in chapter 2, like competitive advantage and competitive strategies. Very informative. Pseudonym: eliza CommentsIn this article it is renforcing what we have been looking at in chapter 2. The most inportant thing that I found in this article to be most interesting is that, Michael Porter suggested four "generic" business strategies that could be adopted in order to gain competitive advantage. The four strategies relate to the extent to which the scope of a businesses' activities are narrow versus broad and the extent to which a business seeks to differentiate its products. This is very true because like in my case as a consumer, I somoetimes buy which ever product available because I think that they are all the same. Pseudonym: HHxT8 CommentsExplains in detail all of the forces that shape strategy and how to correctly apply these strategies in business. Pseudonym: VW CommentsGives information on the different ways of competing and the competitive strategies businesses can use to improve profitability. Pseudonym: Lady CommentsThis page provides detailed explanation of explicit vs tacit knowledge. Other pages go over various topics in knowledge management. Pseudonym: Katanas CommentsI am really surprised that Microsoft has not sued. I would think they would. Pseudonym: libragirl72 CommentsIt was very interesting however I am not sure how helpful it was on this subject. Pseudonym: zoenatalia CommentsThis website give us a detailed information to understand better what is Knowledge Management System.It explained the porpuses, the consequence, functional componenent with full information. Pseudonym: joanalma5 CommentsAfter hearing a bit about it in class and seeing it the PowerPoint slide, I wanted to visit the website to learn more about this virtual company. There was a lot of information on their website. Pseudonym: CVN-71 CommentsThis website breaksdown the steps about competitive strategy. Pseudonym: Legend CommentsThe ranking is a little old, but it shows how each business demonstrates agile qualities. Pseudonym: ReggieRocket CommentsSomewhat helpful, mainly just had different articles related to strategic informaton systems. Pseudonym: mavaldillez CommentsThis website showcases the theories on Information system (IS) and gives details as far as graphs and discussing different theories on IS. Pseudonym: lerivera2 CommentsThis article talks about the oil wells support company that GE is buying. A company called John Well Group and GE will pay2.8 billion cash. What was most interesting to me is that one of the executives referred to the purchase as having "Great growth potential". THis is what we have been discussing in chapter what I am most interested is how will they apply IT if any to this new company and their processes. Most surely they will have to. Pseudonym: Pagrus CommentsA summary that is fairly informative of different business strategies from a college of management and technology Pseudonym: m&m24 CommentsThis website has good information on the key features of system information system that I found interesting. Pseudonym: dena17 CommentsWhen I was studying the powerpoints i saw the term product differentiation but i wasnt too sure of what it meant. This website gave me a clear vision and understanding of product differentiation and what it means. Pseudonym: maryta Commentsas time passes technology will increase significantly more and more Pseudonym: Kapustul CommentsI was exploring Ciscos's website to find out more about how IT can help improve business. This is their bussines services website which encloses what the company has to offer to other companies who wish to gain competitive advantage with the use of tecnology. As future employees or business owners I think it is imperative to stay informed about the options out there to improve our services/products. Pseudonym: *a*a* Commentsit creates an advantage over other companies and pays off Pseudonym: amart819 CommentsThis website provides basic information on how a virtual company operates. Pseudonym: ravazquez Commentsthe page shows a power point presentation in which are all of the points we have cover in class Pseudonym: nenonena CommentsGood article example of strategy and business using differentiation Pseudonym: christian.arrio CommentsThe website is a very reliable source on extra information for chapter two: Competing with IT Pseudonym: mgarc876 CommentsGives an outline as to how to keep your company in an Agile state. Pseudonym: bigeyes CommentsThe article provides insight from businesses who now use technology as a way to compete in todays market and how it has helped their sales and revenues. It also shares how much easier it is for corporations to afford technology. Pseudonym: bravodelta CommentsDiscusses Porter’s Strategic Theory and competitive strategy is an enterprise's plan for achieving sustainable competitive advantage over, or reducing the edge of, its adversaries. Research in Strategic Information Systems Pseudonym: GDF1214 CommentsThis website provided me with a better understanding of how the value chain originated from. It shows what activities occur and how the customers level out sources the cost activities therefore creating a profit. Pseudonym: Waldo Commentseconomies of scale Pseudonym: Jax89 CommentsThis article shows how competitive advantage benefits companies and how it can make them "fight" over the rights to sell a popular phone. Pseudonym: MAPLE CommentsThis is talking about value chain, including its history, models, and so on. Pseudonym: darthgto CommentsThis website is great for the description of Strategic information systems being used in business and it also has links to other helpful info. Pseudonym: Repsol07 CommentsDifferentiating your product is a key element in a system and for your business to succeed. Ducati's motorcycles are one of a kind and are man made and unique, making them one of the best motorcycles in the world. Pseudonym: Alecnoah1981 Commentsgoes into depth on the history and what makes it a success Pseudonym: saida04 Commentsthis article is about how the term inovation and competitive advantages are related and how this change over time. In fact inovation is one of the most important factors a business has to face in the market in order to be recognized and mantain high rates in sales. Pseudonym: CX9 CommentsIt gives us a real life example utilizing well known companies. Pseudonym: Jackson CommentsThis is a link to an article that explores Knowledge Management Systems in more depth. Pseudonym: Batmannnn CommentsThis site goes into great detail on how everything regarding business starts and ends with competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Chuck Bass CommentsI think its a very good site that walks you thru how true business people think in everyday life. Furthermore it allows you to see what stragegies you can personally use for your own business. Pseudonym: Cristy CommentsArticle explains where enterprise systems is and what direction the system is going. Pseudonym: cerezita Commentsgood info. and also has some links related to this topic Pseudonym: cerezita Commentsgood information and has other links related to this topic Pseudonym: Rita<3 CommentsIt site from Harvard University explaining what competitive advantage is, although it lays more towards the marketing side it is great for understanding the concept of competitiveness.After reading it and comprehending it you can understand how you can use it toward CIS. Pseudonym: abcdefg CommentsBusiness agility leaders focus on 3 core practices: 1. Strategic Experiments 2. Adaptive Business Architectures 3. Radical Renewal Pseudonym: tomas12 CommentsThis web site has very detailed information, it has all the different topics that explain better the importance of having as a company a competitive advantage Pseudonym: jjc007 CommentsIts all for your self or your best interest in the business world. It just goes to show its not essy to become successful and stay that way. Pseudonym: 33love04 CommentsThis is a very comprehensive article regarding a case study that presents the strategic benefits of Information Systems. Pseudonym: Elizabeth CommentsVery interesting, talks about how companies should create knowledge and why this culture makes them successful, talks a lot about how the Japanese use this concept in their companies. Pseudonym: coltRDZ CommentsPorters Generic Strategies are all set up in a model that specifies advantages as well as cost leadership strategies, Differentiation strategies, and focus strategies, etc. This model makes it much easier to visualize. Great reference. Pseudonym: tessers14 CommentsThis website goes a little more in depth in the ways IS can be used to gain competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Law CommentsA Strategic Information System (SIS) is a system that helps companies change or otherwise alter their business strategy and/or structure. It is typically utilized to streamline and quicken the reaction time to environmental changes and aid it in achieving a competitive advantage. Pseudonym: zona CommentsAnalizes the specific activities through which companies can create a competitive advantage Pseudonym: INA CommentsIn this page, What is Information technology is explained and it also taks about of who works and what kind of skills a person needs to work in the field of information technology Pseudonym: B-Diesel3102 CommentsVery informative, gives information on the impact of BPR, How to implement BPR, and the various tools required to ensure a successful BPR to try and prevent your organization from falling apart due to the drastic changes. Pseudonym: peke01 CommentsIt comes with the definition and history of what information technology is. Pseudonym: DeuceMan CommentsTop 5 new softwares in the market. Pseudonym: rmaese CommentsThe article explains how universities in Malaysia haven't adopted strtegic information systems. This is hard to believe since technology is moving fast and therefore such technology is useful and at times even absolutely necessary for students. Pseudonym: R00789 CommentsThe author describes about but hotels' comforts but none offer sustainable differentiation. they can offer tactical advantages for a period of time, but like any successful innovations they will be duplicated. Pseudonym: JAM6119 CommentsI like how it talks how technolgy and grown and is a big part to childen now. Pseudonym: luvbug01 CommentsThis page is very informative, although I know not to confide in Wikipedia so much because you never know if the information is going to be legit or not. Pseudonym: Matt CommentsThe web site give an example but doesn't give you a set format to follow Pseudonym: kcadena1 CommentsThe website has visual of the model and a detailed explanation of the value chain. Pseudonym: Bugito CommentsHow to make your company a "wired" company or virtual company. Pseudonym: Paco CommentsInteresting article on how some companies have incorporated inforamation systems for a competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Dgarcia CommentsThis is a very interesting website that will allow you to have a clear understanding of the terms defines in Chapter1 Pseudonym: boostzilla Commentsa very descriptive slide show about competitive advantages a company can do to gain the cutting edge Pseudonym: germangirl Commentseasy to understand and very informative Pseudonym: MAVC Commentsit gives some good point on what makes it important in these technology bound markets Pseudonym: schweiger CommentsI wanted to read more about this topic since it was mentioned in the powerpoints. This webpage just goes into a little more detail into specifying different types of alliances that can be formed. Pseudonym: laika* CommentsThis article explains how information technology can be used as a resource for attaining sustainable competitive advantage in business. Pseudonym: Africa CommentsThere is great information and good articles about strategics and competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Junior915 CommentsReal world comparison and analysis of the what is needed to gain a competitive advantage with information systems. Elaborates on he effects new entrants, competitors, etc. would have within the market. Pseudonym: S.W. Erdnase CommentsThe article talks about Target's competitive advantage to Walmart. Pseudonym: Alman R. CommentsThis paper explains two fundamental approaches to knowledge management and is helpful in clarifying the differences and its uses. Pseudonym: Alman R. CommentsI had some doubts about what investment leveraging was, but this article from Manulife bank helped clarify its meaning to me . Pseudonym: Superman CommentsThis cite is a great source of how people have competed using softwares in their businesses. Many individuals describe how they used software to get ahead of their competition. Pseudonym: sas CommentsThis article is about how small businesses can get easy acess to databases Pseudonym: tequila01 CommentsIn this page it gives the definition of value chain, and how it is divided. Pseudonym: Godfather CommentsThe article describes how one would create or become a customer focused business Pseudonym: herman CommentsDuke establishes an articles that illustrates value chains on a global scale and the correlation between global economies. Pseudonym: santo Commentsthe article talks about the industries that conglomerate in order to expand their markets. Pseudonym: mini CommentsThis web site gives more information on the value chains. It have a different way to explain the term and charts . Pseudonym: lizzy CommentsThis small article helped me understanding more clearly the defintion of these two words. Pseudonym: Woody CommentsIn this page you can understand better what instructions per seconds are. Pseudonym: Lilac CommentsA Brief explanation on the three elements that are part of product differentiation. Pseudonym: mgi852 CommentsDescribes the five competitive forces. Pseudonym: Harley Quinn CommentsThis was a good look into a virtual company called Monorail. Pseudonym: Great Dane CommentsThis site summarizes the benefits of knowledge information systems and how it's utilization can improve productivity and accuracy in your business. Pseudonym: streetrock27 CommentsBasic overview of Porter's Five Forces Model. Pseudonym: Cancun95 CommentsIf you need direction on creating a social intranet for your employees, insight on how to drive engagement with measurable results, or guidance on crafting social media policies or strategies this website is a great source of information. Pseudonym: styba CommentsThis web page emphasizes on the importance of innovation in today's society. It begins by describing what innovation is and how organizations have been truly impacted by it. As a result, businesses today are in great demand and need for innovators than ever before in time history. Pseudonym: gabemxde CommentsIBM and BTM corporation have come up with an "agility index" which they call maturity level, now theres a really easy way of grouping and studying companies/businesses according to their "maturity level" Pseudonym: jbanosgomar CommentsThe Website focuses on Cost Leadership strategies. It provides a definition of this concept and what organizations pursue when using it. It defines when is best for companies to use this strategy in order to achieve competitive advantage. One of the cost leadership strategies that the website talks about is economies of scale and technological advantages independent of scale. It also mentions the scenarios in which this strategy is valuable and in which is sustainable. It is a good reference with cited sources and other related subjects. Pseudonym: zooly15 CommentsGives and overview of the lecture and describes a little bit more on the 128 character key used in early computers. Pseudonym: Heisenberg CommentsStates the difference between Explicit and Tacit Knowledge Pseudonym: KidA CommentsArticle discusses security challenges faced by enterprises and how information systems take part in fixing that. Pseudonym: Vicenza CommentsThis website talks about companies who have intense rivalries with other companies and the history of how it began. Pseudonym: del sol CommentsInteresting point of view for those who believe IT most of the times offers competitive advantage Pseudonym: Reckoner77 CommentsThis is a very good article on Virtual companies. Pseudonym: enileucaj CommentsThe website provides with the steps required for redesigning an Organization. Pseudonym: aml07 CommentsA good explanation on how to plan a good information system and strategies to be a successful firm. Pseudonym: Vader24 CommentsThis article gives a descent amount of information on Cost leadership, however the figures presented were a little confusing. Pseudonym: Great Dane CommentsThis site summarizes the benefits of knowledge information systems and how its utilization can improve productivity and accuracy in your business. Pseudonym: Handbanana CommentsGives you several agile companies,includes a brief description of the company.Also has their VP, CIO, Chairman, Ceo, President, revenue and number of employees. Pseudonym: rolmedow Commentsthis site explains very well the system value chains Pseudonym: chavez CommentsDescribes the different types of competitive stategies in further detail to help a company, enjoy!!! Pseudonym: vega CommentsDescribes how to make your company successful by keeping competitive advantage in mind. Pseudonym: Enna CommentsThis is a Harvard archive that describes in a very specific and clearly manner the importance of the Information Technology in the Competitive Advantage in Business. Pseudonym: AlphaE CommentsGood website on theory and organization of Strategic IS Pseudonym: rasta Commentsit provides the background and the Perspective of Strategic Information Systems Planning Pseudonym: jessica6071 CommentsIt is a Harvard blog that wrote about the a knowledge company Pseudonym: dgarci07 CommentsIts amazing how a little idea with the help of technology and the necessity of people can come to be a top company these days. Pseudonym: waffles CommentsThis website is describing the chapter and is what we talked and discuss in class. It helped me to go over other notes and undersand the chapter better. Pseudonym: Mr. Magpie CommentsGives a detailed report on understanding information technology usage by comparing different models. Pseudonym: ygarcia12 CommentsArticle talks about how information technology is not so expensive and can allow small businesses to compete with larger businesses. Pseudonym: james Commentsthis web page describe the biggest innovation about mac, which is the IPAD. this device is better than a phone (iphone) than ipod and it has all the advantages that a computer has. also it include GPS and is multitouch screen. this is a clear example of the potential that human has to bring innovations to this world. Pseudonym: jaluna416 CommentsMichael E. Porter a specialist in business strategy from Harvard Business School presents in depth descriptions of the contending forces that determine the profitability of an industry. Pseudonym: MCB CommentsThe following is a 23 page review of Strategic Information Systems Planning. It emphasizes the need of a new approach. Pseudonym: THE ONE Commentsjust goes to show how walmart stays on top of its competition. Pseudonym: gn293662 CommentsI felt that the idea of breaking down the organization to things that add value was interesting. Difference between primary and secondary activities as well. Pseudonym: 321aed CommentsIt explaina the subject really good. Pseudonym: Coheed29 CommentsGood Site. Pseudonym: @tasha09 CommentsIS is known now to be a strategy and is very important in maintaining effectiveness in corporations Pseudonym: somj3 CommentsThis article talks about the benefits of mass customization to the general public. Pseudonym: somj3 CommentsThis article talks about the benefits of mass customization for the public. Pseudonym: somj3 CommentsIt talks about how mass customization should be seen today. Pseudonym: serg1386 CommentsThis website will give a description but also show related type information about strategic IS Pseudonym: clau0379 CommentsOn this web site, we can find useful information of strategies on a firm when it comes to know the difference between firm size measured in terms of volume of production and costs measured in terms of average cost per unit of production. Pseudonym: eli2007 CommentsThis is an article from 1994 explaining how financial institutions were only using information technology for management and operation decisions but needed to use it for strategic utilization as well. Pseudonym: elitedemokid CommentsCovers global and cross-cultural issues. Pseudonym: lacruzt CommentsA brief and concise definition of what a Strategic Information Systems is. Pseudonym: coco2212 CommentsCompanies that lacked the skills to manage information technology effectively suffered compared with competitors that had mastered those skills. Pseudonym: coco22 CommentsCompanies that lacked the skills to manage information technology effectively suffered compared with competitors that had mastered those skills Pseudonym: jeta1 Commentsthese site teaches you more on what it takes and mean to create a virtual company. Pseudonym: Lauriss4 Commentsunderstand the structure of its industry and stake out a position that is more profitable and less vulnerable to attack. Pseudonym: NYSE CommentsInformation regarding the structure, function and implementaion techniques of successful strategic IS's. Pseudonym: NYSE CommentsStrategi IS planning theories on the rise today. Their objective, targets and metrics. Pseudonym: SweetNess CommentsInteresting how technology can continue to gorw and have to compete with one another. Ever evoloving. Pseudonym: utdakid CommentsMichael porters value chain Pseudonym: pepe10 CommentsGives the history of how John W. Mauchly helped create the eniac it gives the story through his eyes Pseudonym: johnny23 Commentsit talks about how a business with good I.T. department can now compete with big retailers now matter the size of the company. with the web they could reach clients they could not reach before all for an affordable price. Pseudonym: gbrnboo CommentsThis magazine article provides insight on how the information systems are now not competing with IT but collaborating to make it into the business world. Pseudonym: 5589 CommentsTechology has made shopping and paying so much easier through sophisticated IT and online banking. Pseudonym: Azu CommentsIt explains the benefits of virtual corporations. Pseudonym: yellow4385 CommentsI like that smaller companies now have easier access to IT systems. Being able to advertise your business on the WWW all around the world is a definite advantage for small businesses. Having IT gives a company more advertising power. Pseudonym: javihh CommentsThis website talks about how ecommerce has helped to exchange goods with no barriers of any type. Pseudonym: javihh CommentsThis website gives us a definition of what ecommerce is and how it has helped to vanish trade barriers. Pseudonym: leny CommentsThis site mentions that knowledge management systems refer to any kind of information technology that stores and retrieves knowledge, improves collaboration, helps knowledge workers create, organize and make available important knowledge. Pseudonym: pearl CommentsIt gave general information. I felt it could of been more specific and given more scenarios or examples. Pseudonym: yesterworld Commentsa good summary of basic competitive strategies using information technology Pseudonym: Charbo CommentsThe website defines Strategic Informations Systems and gives examples. Pseudonym: segtz Commentsin my opinion this lecture explain at detail the advantage of the information technology. Pseudonym: sallywally Commentsthis website goes more into detail about knowledge management systems and how they work. Pseudonym: Twiggy CommentsThis site is great for visualizing just how a value chain works, and all the parts that make a value chain run smoothly, thus creating a competitive advantage. This web site also has other great tips and information on business matters. Pseudonym: JuneBug4 CommentsThis website gives you some steps companies take to become a virtual company. It gives a certain path a virtual company takes. Pseudonym: Pyro22 CommentsThis article presents a check list of 8 items a business needs to have to differentiate from other businesses and to have the ability to compete against the Wal-Mart world and other competitors. Pseudonym: lkiri CommentsThis website explains the five factors influencing competitive forces in more detail. Pseudonym: bolas CommentsCompetitive strategy refers to how a company competes in a particular business.Competitive strategy is concerned with how a company can gain a competitive advantage through a distinctive way of competing. Pseudonym: Beezy CommentsDefines competitive advantage and how companies use it. Pseudonym: ELOJ CommentsCouple of paragraphs and images dedicated to value chain Pseudonym: 12deoctubre Commentsi red little bet is a part of book good information for this class Pseudonym: 1attosecond CommentsThe article I have reviewed was called, “Examples of cost leadership.” In this article, I read about McDonald’s and Ikea and how these companies find the lowest cost possible to produce their product and offer basic services. McDonald’s essentially offers meals at extraordinary low prices and trains their employees in a knowledge matter. Ikea sells furniture at a very low price and offers their customers a variety of styles to choose. Ikea produces their product in low-wage countries and provide an average level of customer service. Ikea attracts their customers to their company by low prices and having there customers assemble the product at their home. Both companies have the essential elements and are examples of cost leadership. Pseudonym: Laney CommentsI liked it because it spoke about tacit knowledge Pseudonym: quiroz Commentsthis website was talking about a graduate program for a university in new york and how it offers a lot of job opportunities for graduates Pseudonym: Possal CommentsThis site talks about Cost Leadership Strategy and in order to achieve it a company must have the lowest cost producer in the industry and it should be the lowest cost no matter what industry the company is in. By doing this the company will reduce the cost of capital that must be invested and the profit will be higher than the cost of doing business Pseudonym: Dom Santiago CommentsThis article is about how Companies have changed their opinion about Information Technology and how the correct use of IT can give out at least 5 competitive strategic advantages to a corporation. Pseudonym: BARNIE CommentsThis article really helped me visualize exactly how bits and bytes work. I have a more clear understanding of this concept. very useful. i feel i can explain it to someone else now! Pseudonym: pandora CommentsGreat article list all the requirements and guidelines to be a customer focused business. Pseudonym: homealone Commentsbusiness dictionary where explains the concept and can be usefull for other terms in the reading Pseudonym: cool CommentsIt is interestting what the benefits are in a virtual corporation. Pseudonym: Low Bond 81 CommentsThe article states how to be above your competitors,and the best way is to have a differentiation between products. How using differentiation in your companies field will produce a better profit than your competitor. The article also states the "four "generic" business strategies" that Michael Porter came up with to help managers better their company. Pseudonym: PDT84 Commentsgives examples of different companies and how they use cost leadership and strategy marketing to sell their product or service to the public Pseudonym: menitomex CommentsAbout.com talks about the history of IT and the different names companies have for it, the transformation of the IT world from its beginnings to its current state. Pseudonym: POkbrhalNtaPoQwEwr CommentsThat's an expert aesnwr to an interesting question Pseudonym: BlackMamba CommentsThis is a posting by Professor Anatoly Sachenko, who uses diagrams in his presentation to describe the topics of competitive forces and strategies, and the value chain and strategic IS Pseudonym: ag1508 CommentsIt is important to know what is strategic Information to help companies to build a good business structure. Pseudonym: Alrak.1 CommentsThis article explains competitive forces that shape strategy. Pseudonym: love3 CommentsIt helped me to understand the meaning of virtual. It gives some examples of virtual business and how they have change with the time. Pseudonym: faith CommentsThis website provides a shorter better understanding to what knowledge would mean to a company, and they give us direct descriptions for a better perceptive. Pseudonym: ch120308 CommentsThis website explains everything about the value chains. It gives a Porter's Generic Value Chain graphic, explains the primary activities of the value chain. Explains the Cost Advantage and the value chain, differentiation and the value chain, technology and the value chain and outsourcing value chain activities. Pseudonym: squirt CommentsI happen to find this website very helpfull, it contains some pictures that we cover in the powerpoint slides during class, but what helped me the most was the key terms and concepts. Pseudonym: passion rose CommentsThis website was very organized and helpful. It provided detailed information to see if you had bad hardware. Reading the guide will give you a complete diagnosis and will help your computer be better equipped in case something bad happens to it. Pseudonym: eetc CommentsInformational system is a helpful tool for local national organizations to adopt strategies, growth potentialy, and get a competitive strategies at worldwide marketing teams. Pseudonym: amelie CommentsIn this article by Inc. magazine from New York City talks about how the magazine decided to go virtual just to test this new concept in the business industry, it then goes on to explaining the experience by an employee of Inc. It gives the advantages of having a Virtual Company as explained in class. Saving money was the main one, the free tech, settling in, mastering an easier way of communication, and other. Overall the article gave good examples of the virtual company process and how it will evolve in the next couple of years. Pseudonym: nottingham CommentsThis webpage provides information on the advantages of creating a virtual company. It also gives some examples of some entrepeneurs have prospered working with people around the world through a virtual company. Pseudonym: 3466 CommentsAn article detailing suggestions to make the IT industry more productive and functional. Pseudonym: siddaap18 Commentsgood information Pseudonym: jktubby CommentsAt first I was really uncertain about this topic. After reading this whole article, I am more informed on how a virtual company is made. This article really goes into detail and gives me a brief understanding on how to build such a virtual company. Pseudonym: Lady2Luv CommentsI like they way they talk about what we discussed in class about tacit and explict Pseudonym: da_bowz CommentsThis website give examples of cost leadership in several industries that are different from each other. The best part is that they use examples from actual markets that we use everyday. Pseudonym: vd3725 CommentsThis article helped me understand better the concept of why there has to be competition among industries and why innovation is the key for success for any business. Pseudonym: kike CommentsIt gave a underlining explanation of the various defenitions of barriers of entry and how the differ form one another. It help explain the concept of barriers of entry in a more simple way Pseudonym: 24oas CommentsThis is article defines strategic information systems planning and it also explains how organizations use information systems to significantly impact their strategies Pseudonym: caj21 CommentsVery detailed but clear explanation of competitive advantage by The European Business Review. Has illustrations that make it easier to understand. Pseudonym: Good lookin' Commentsstraight to the point gives what the instructor wants from each chapter. Pseudonym: Ducati Commentsthis web helps you a lot to study the chapter Pseudonym: Neto CommentsIn this site shows how the Toyota Company has reposition within the last couple of years. They put a lot of emphasis in working on a world class safety for its product, and also by implementing new technologies they have recover and reposition themselves as one on the top car companies in the market. Pseudonym: 1219 CommentsDisseminating insights and know-how across any organization is critical to improving performance, but nonprofits struggle to implement organizational learning and make it a priority. A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them. Pseudonym: emende01 CommentsThe business advantages and prosperity that comes along with it. Pseudonym: emmendez2 CommentsThe business advantages and prosperity that comes along with it. Pseudonym: VEGASROO CommentsI think the website was really good because it defined the subject(business process reegineering), offered related topics, named common uses and gave the methodology of it. The site was clear-cut and informative and easy to follow. Pseudonym: G.A.P. CommentsGive information and how The University of Phoenix was founded by John Sperling, who felt that "working adult students were often invisible on traditional campuses nd treated as second-class citizens."[8] Started in 1976 in the Phoenix metropolitan area,[8] the first class consisted of eight students.[9] In 1980, the school expanded to San Jose, California, and in 1989, the university launched its online program. Pseudonym: 6663yeni Commentsthis web site is good example of competitive strategic advantage giving an example by apple company. Pseudonym: ChevyCorvette CommentsIt explains exactly the difference between a strategy and a tactic. It is simple and to the point. Pseudonym: Phenom CommentsAlbeit that Netflix was not the innovator of the online entertainment streaming industry, it had easily become the largest provider of movies and T.V. shows on the internet. However, with other gargantuan online companies, such as Amazon, catching up, Netflix is losing it's competitive advantage on the market. While names like Hulu started it all with regards to internet steaming, Netflix quickly monopolized the market, essentially, by locking up contracts with service providers, one of them being Starz, that would allow them to offer a wide array of content for their subscribers. With those contracts quickly approaching their end, companies like Verizon Communications and Amazon, after having witnessed the lucrative undertaking that Netflix had experienced in the recent past, have become serious bidders for content contracts with the Service provider giants CBS, Time Warner Cable, and Redbox. Other companies, namely Dish and Comcast, are also offering streaming services that rival those offered by Netflix. With the market slowly saturating with competition, the exclusivity of content that so strongly allowed Netflix to front-run in the streaming industry has quickly become endangered by firms with rivaling buying power now bidding on those same contracts. Pseudonym: OG21 CommentsA successful business is defined by how effective and efficient the company runs. KMS in my opinnion is a key component in providing that. Pseudonym: cmur3 CommentsThis website helps better understand virtual organizations, their characteristics, and their challenges. Pseudonym: 082411 CommentsI liked the detail in which this webpage refers to the importance of a virtual company, it explains very detailed the steps and the advantages why a lot of companies are deciding to use this important tool. Pseudonym: Roselily CommentsI thought it was really informative and did a good job on making it relatable to business not just the technology. Pseudonym: Roxy CommentsThis article explain what an agile is and what it does and the benefits of be an agile company. It gives many great ezamples. Pseudonym: melow CommentsThis article explains in detail what you need to take into account when choosing your competitive strategy..first you have to define what is the mission of your business and at what point of your business you are. Pseudonym: melow Commentsthis article explains exactly what an agile company is..if you want to be agile you need to respond adequately to changes. Pseudonym: grpink27 CommentsChapter 2 mentions how internet technologies integrate to agile companies.This website describes the components of an agile company and how IT plays a role in their development. Pseudonym: grpink27 CommentsChapter 2 mentions how internet technologies integrate to agile companies.This website describes the components of an agile company and how IT plays a role in their development. Pseudonym: luly CommentsLou Coutts, "The Growth Doctor," points out and explains the most common misconception on cost leadership. Pseudonym: pink1022 CommentsWhen you have business, you need to make sure to make you business stand out from the rest Pseudonym: Bob Loblaw CommentsCost advantage and Product differentiation are the keys for the power and strength of an industry. Pseudonym: charlieflowers CommentsIn learning about how walmart allows their suppliers access to their inventories I came across this article on how UPC Barcodes work. This is a great example of how technology has helped streamline business in order to save money and be more efficient and this is something that we see on a daily basis. Pseudonym: Jason Bourne CommentsThis article talks about how differentiation works for major companies and how to continue using this strategy effectively. Pseudonym: namtaB CommentsThis article provides information about virtual companies. It gives a little bit of background history regarding such companies and lists the pros and cons of working with a virtual based company. These days more and more of these companies are arising and this article gives good reasons as to why this is. Pseudonym: Palomar CommentsThe link show a short and brief video of what the 5 competitive forces are. Greetings Pseudonym: agent butters Commentstell the ten best strategic of CIO Pseudonym: agent butters Commentsgood website Pseudonym: #!$@babydreamy CommentsGood article. Discusses Decision supports systems,primary resource planning,& Database systems. Brief and point. Pseudonym: Sakura19 CommentsI have been having a hard time understanding the difference between competitive advantage and competitive necessity. I always manage to mix up the concepts after I go through the book and read how they are different. This web pages definition helped me by giving a more simplistic explanantion of the term. Pseudonym: 007 CommentsThis article shows how the Kwuangji Bank saw it necessary to update it's Strategic Information Systems to meet customer needs. It shows how big of a role information systems play in different companies and organizations. This is a real life example of how a Bank felt it necessary and organized a plan to update it's information systems in order to improve their services. Pseudonym: Huasausky CommentsThis a very helpful website because explains in general what is competitive strategy. Also, it gives information about business growth in a world, some strategies, and recommendations about what to do while opening a new business. Pseudonym: dragonfly CommentsValuable information about how to maximize information systems! Pseudonym: benji1224 CommentsThis website takes you to a few slides that explain competitiveness advantage that a business would have by using information technology. Pseudonym: Mr. Norris CommentsGives a brief description of some of the Competitive Strategies the Hilton Hotel chain utilizes. Pseudonym: Batman CommentsIn this website it is mentioned that information systems must be planned in a well integrated way to provide efficiency and not only that but agility as well. It is vital that a company is agile in what they do in order to remain competitive among the industry. This website gave a table of how the involvement of information systems evolves. Going from a mere stand alone computers whose purpose was to reduce cost, to now having a network of strategic information systems. Overall this was a great website and was very precise. Pseudonym: cera8 CommentsThis article is very interesting! Pseudonym: pya CommentsThis article was of how Philip Rosadale started his own virtual program in a company called LoveMachine where it was like tweeter but it was to send messages to thank other employees for the great work they had done. This raised the employees self-esteem creating a better environment. The way they fix the programs bugs is by people who bet on it so it is cheaper. Finding, creating, or just wanting to improve something can lead into a project that can change your life. Especially, nowadays that it is virtual. Pseudonym: dolcevita Commentsthe reasons why a company does to work efficiently with IT and competitive advantage this arcticle explain the reaons why. Pseudonym: fer040 CommentsThis is an article provided by the Harvard Business Review in which Michael E. Porter analyzes the two key features that a diversified company has. The two components include a competitive strategy and a corporate strategy. A competitive strategy must be able to adapt to change and provide constant innovations. On the other hand, a corporate strategy analyzes how a company divides its business unites. Porter studied 33 prestigious firms and developed the conclusion that “most of them had divested many more acquisitions than they had kept.” In other words, buying companies and later dividing them only created more problems. Although there is no set recipe on how a company will be able to survive, it is essential that a company constantly reviews and restructures its strategies in order to prevent failure. Pseudonym: MoMoBanks CommentsAn article giving a few examples of some companies and how they’ve made Cost Leadership work for their company and the products and services they offer. One major example is Wal-Mart along with the few others being McDonalds, IKEA and Southwest Airlines. It basically gives the examples of how these companies have become efficient in their work or establishing low-cost materials in order to pass the savings on to the customers. Pseudonym: laeinaudi CommentsThe study, design, development, application, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems. Pseudonym: Insanerasberry CommentsGood article on small business being able to be successful with IT Pseudonym: alrok CommentsThis website talks about how important virtual are becoming, it also shows examples of benefits and virtual business processes. Pseudonym: 05ConradHilton04 CommentsIt is really important to know about agile companies and how we should all have agile companies as our environment changes and they are made for this. If we have an agile company then we will meet with customer needs at all times and be prepared for everything Pseudonym: Bert Commentsdifferent competitive strategies Pseudonym: Aquiles Baesta CommentsThis website defines competitive advantage and provides related articles with examples on the topic. Pseudonym: pajarita Commentsglobal value chains concepts Pseudonym: Sisco Kid Commentsi think this research a lots of credibility and mention stuff that we cover in class Pseudonym: london.love CommentsThis article has an interesting way of describing or giving an example of Competitive Necessity that I really didn't saw before. It basically explains how todays social media is the most competitive necessity out there. It talks about how social media, when used carefully and intelligently, can make almost any business flourish. Also it mentions that the majority of businesses who have integrated some kind of social media in there business have done it with success. Pseudonym: pulpix CommentsWebsite gives an explanation on the benefits of KM, how well your company need to understand your data in order to transform it into information to applied it to benefit your company Pseudonym: google it CommentsIt is amazing how technology has exponentially increase over the years, now as we can see scanners are becoming smaller and having the same functions as the older versions that were ten times bigger and heavier. Pseudonym: Shaggy Comments"presents an overview of the five basic areas of information systems knowledge needed by business professionals, including the conceptual system components andmajor types of information system" Pseudonym: Jacob45 CommentsThis website gives good examples of companies now being able to use information technology in their business. And also how you can be at a disadvantage. Pseudonym: dgonzalez14 CommentsThe book then discusses how technological information is acquired by the R & D organization, shows how critical technical communication within the laboratory is for R & D performance, and originates the idea of the "gatekeeper," the person who links his or her organization to the world at large. This is all directly linked to what we learned in chapter 2 and the slides. Pseudonym: alphaxi1893 CommentsThis article describes the importance of being an agile business and what it really means for a business to be agile. It talks about how customers are the true 'reality check' to a business to let them know how they are doing. If not, a company must learn ways to become more innovative and agile. I thought it was really interesting that "only 74 of the original 500 companies in the S&P Index are still on the list 40 years later." Pseudonym: ZE826 CommentsThis website defines economies of scale, a key factor that discourages new competitors. Pseudonym: mirka Commentsit gave us a good brief about information technology and the way it changes and compete a company. Pseudonym: bceltics09 CommentsSwitching costs Pseudonym: teritap CommentsThis article explains the importance of the information system on the business world and how it helps to maximize competitive advantage Pseudonym: chiefitox CommentsThe article provides a definition of what cost leadership is and other types of marketing strategies. It does a good job by providing examples. One of which is Walmart, Walmart has everyday low prices which attract consumers. Pseudonym: Pale1 CommentsReminiscent of the days when technology was a brand new thing and everyone was just beginning to wrap their heads around using it to better themselves Pseudonym: miners CommentsA company will need technology in order to continue to keep up with competition and stay ahead of the game. Pseudonym: airJ CommentsI.T. has helped the world make a huge jump forward. The equivelent of the moon landing for mankind. Pseudonym: chimis CommentsThis page talks about the competitive strategy in dynamic markets and technology. Pseudonym: laprieto13 CommentsIn this article in the Harvard Business Review, it explains how Information Systems create new opportunities for businesses to compete in world. New technology an help a business gain more customers, and can help give you the upper hand against your business rivals. Pseudonym: hdstocks CommentsThe article basically talks about how Information Systems are not only a commodity in a business but how they can be counted as an asset to any business. It talks about how it enhances jobs, differentiation, and coordination of supply and distribution. Pseudonym: thelmss1 CommentsSlideshare is a very useful website. It contains a slideshow which contains lots of information regarding Chapter 2. It had many tables, graphs and many examples. Pseudonym: slizzy13 CommentsEasy to use, and contains great info Pseudonym: 1784angel Commentsit was a very informative site and it also explained all types and forms. Pseudonym: DesertStormVet CommentsStrategic Information System (SIS) is a system to manage information and assist in strategic decision making. A strategic information system has been defined as, “The information system to support or change enterprise’s strategy.” Simply says, a Strategic Information System is a type of Information System that is aligned with business strategy and structure. Pseudonym: Lakers08 CommentsWalmart is located all over the United States, with its low cost, and reasonable driving destinations, it has the competitive advantage over all local businesses. Pseudonym: 6sense CommentsThis was interesting because even though it was saying that information systems is really a way of doing business today that information systems does not give you a competitive advantage because it has become a common place for businesses. This is what the book called when a competitive advantage becomes a neccesity. Which i think its true if every business has information systems then their is no campetitive advantage. Pseudonym: Gurschke CommentsThis site explains how telecommunicatiions is used and how it's delivered Pseudonym: Gurschke CommentsThis site explains how telecommunicatiions is used and how it's delivered Pseudonym: eraguirre CommentsProf. Anatoly Sachenko demostrates how to use information technology for strategic advantages. Pseudonym: Dallas Cowboys CommentsAmazon is the best place to purchase cheap books and other items. Pseudonym: Praha CommentsThe value chain analysis describes the activities the organization performs and links them to the organizations competitive position. Pseudonym: cuauhtemoc CommentsThis site helped me a lot to understand the term Virtual Company. It tells you in a very simple way, the definition and how is used this term in Computer Information Systems. Pseudonym: lmgr000 CommentsThis website goes more in depth to explain what value chains are which helped me understand the topic a little better. Pseudonym: bolt987 CommentsJournal that goes in-depth to examine how great performance can be lead by competitive advantages. Allocation of organization's resources is top priority in order to obtain largest profit and to keep competitiveness at a higher level. This is an interesting article because one is able to better understand the culture of an organization what it consists of and is able to relate it to competitive advantage. Pseudonym: SingSing CommentsThis website breaks down the definition of Electronic Business Systems making it simple to understand. Pseudonym: Maeve12 CommentsThis website talks about the necessity for some companies to offshore. Because of minimum wage and laws that the government has implemented, some companies use the other countries’ labor to lower their manufacturing cost to have a larger profit. Many companies argue saying that offshoring is a necessity to stay in the market. Pseudonym: cepa Commentsvery informative, gives more information to understand what comptitive advantage is Pseudonym: fallenangel01 CommentsThe harvard business school website is useful in telling the meaning and explaining the parts that are consistant in the competitive strategy. It also includes some recommendation of some books from multiple nations in detailing and explainging it in thier own way. There are also tabs on top of the website that can lead to different types of competition in society, economic and firm. Pseudonym: Hank Moody CommentsI got to see what are some of the most agile companies in actual times. Pseudonym: chango CommentsIn this article I learn that while the cost leadership strategy can be good and successful, it can be difficult to apply because you need to have a good marketing strategy and you need to reduce costs of production in order to lower the costs to the consumer Pseudonym: nalmagui CommentsThis website provides an article about the 5 tips you might follow in order to build your own virtual company. Pseudonym: beiber CommentsThe website is very interesting because it uses real-life examples about companies rapidly changing like Tiffany's and several of the French luxury brand companies have done very well, indeed, during the depression in Western economics that set in at the end of 2008 Pseudonym: bboyfantasma CommentsThis website is really helpful as it goes into great detail about what a knowledge management system. I suggest this to anyone interested on the subject. Pseudonym: jay CommentsI am shocked and disgusted by the work ethics of such a huge company like Procter and Gamble. Pseudonym: water CommentsIt gives a few examples of the companies that exist as virtual companies. Pseudonym: Karla23 CommentsWhen I read this article I understand better everything. It was very helpful for me. Pseudonym: Kingj CommentsThis article on the Harvard Business Review talks about the five competitive forces that shape industry competition, which we were covering in class. Pseudonym: pivon059 CommentsThis site explains what is strategic infromation systems, its objectives, and how the study of this can change the way business competes. Pseudonym: telmarodiguez CommentsAccording to Michael Porter, there are three different way to sustain a competitive advantage. These three different strategies are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus Pseudonym: care22 CommentsThis site is very helpful. It tells you what each of the terms mean.It helps you to understand both of them. Pseudonym: TheAbbot CommentsThe page discusses some of the items we went over in chapter 2. It gives tips when a company wants to enter a product or service into the market. The items discussed covered in Chapter 2 include: competition, bargaining power of buyers & sellers, cost leadership, and differentiation. Pseudonym: kb24 CommentsGood article about how companies use virtual and value chain strategies to improve their business. Pseudonym: Chispa 80 CommentsEasier and simple to understand Pseudonym: borgetti_tronco CommentsThis website shows different examples of companies around the world use the Cost Leadership Strategy. It shows how Wal-Mart uses the strategy of always low prices to their advantadge and as a business strategy. Pseudonym: paulinap5 CommentsACDI/VOCA mission is to To promote economic opportunities for enterprises and communities through the innovative application of sound business practice. It also promotes positive economic and social change worldwide. the vision of this web page is to empower people to succeed in the global economy. I found an article about Value Chain, and it explains that ACDI/VOCA uses value chains, specifically value chain analysis, to understand private sector development in emerging economy settings to jumpstart economic growth and poverty reduction. The article also shows a Value chain diagram. ACDI/VOCA works with industry stakeholders to strengthen or restructure relationships and address resource constraints to increase the global competitiveness of the industry and the ability of small firms to contribute to and benefit from this competitiveness. Pseudonym: jennym11700 CommentsThis page gives a little more of an elaborate description of the factors that influence competitive forces. It provides examples and also has a chart very similar to the one we went over in class. Pseudonym: mandres22 CommentsTalks about what strategic IS is, how it helps a business, and how to implement it. very informative and detailed if you want to read it all. Pseudonym: Charlieboy16 CommentsI know you dont like us to use Wiki, professor, but I couldnt really find anything about Siemens that did not have a HUGE amount of marketing lingo. Anyways, I like this site because it tells the history of Siemens as well as the present of the future. Siemens itself is a massive German multinational company employing about 190 million employees across the globe, making 750 trillion euros in profit in the 2011 fiscal year. If anything, Siemens is the pinnacle of what a successful SIS (Strategic Information Systems) is capable of. I thought it would be a prime example about what SIS is all about. Pseudonym: makr6 CommentsSmall article with basic information and examples of cost leadership. Pseudonym: hooeycon62 CommentsInforms about the basic concepts and strategic management.Broken down into Cost leadership, differentiation, and price strategy. Pseudonym: nata10 CommentsThe webside gives a description of eBusiness strategies on competitive forces. It describes certain characteristics like Globalisation, Digitalisation, and Deregulation, which are part of eBusiness economy. Pseudonym: c5ek757o CommentsFair site I could not find as much information on agility that I wanted but this was good enough Pseudonym: dance09 CommentsThis website gives an article about how we are experiencing a "creativity crisis" and how it affects innovation. Pseudonym: Theoretical CommentsThe site is very well structured. It includes the Primary Value Chain Activities and a thorough description of each. In addition the site also includes a Support Activities Section and Value Analysis. The site is easy to read and very concise. In the end. the site sites a book to encourage readers to further study value chains. Pseudonym: athena CommentsThis website takes a deeper look at how the five forces that drive competition in an industry work together. Pseudonym: jade01 CommentsWebsite goes into detail of the importance and different between competitive advantage and competitive necessity. Provides examples and reasoning behind the two. Pseudonym: Sauce CommentsThis website describes how leadership is displayed in information technology services. Pseudonym: kyriepg23 CommentsBasic understanding of competitive advantage and how to achieve it. Pseudonym: agaribay32 Commentsthis article talks about how it is inportant to have good cometitive busness strategies in order to run a busness. it explains how it is inportant to keep a good cost to the produvt and to watch labor. Pseudonym: Mr. Bombastic CommentsThis is a PDF file that discusses the two types of knowledge: Tactical and explicit Pseudonym: Mr. Bombastic CommentsInvestigative essay on how switching costs affect market outcome Pseudonym: wamiller CommentsThis is a marketing consultancy's website that provides advice for Australian companies. They go into detail about the importance of marketing and competitive strategies. Pseudonym: Axel CommentsGood paper on Strategic Information System planning stressing the importance of having business, organizational and information systems complementing one another in today’s internet age by the Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE). Pseudonym: mocvz1818 CommentsThis webpage does an effecitve job explaining what a virtual company does, and it gives you good management tips for your company. Pseudonym: 0715Denisse CommentsThis webstite is easy to understand and it contains a lot of interesting information in regards to the value chainl. It also contains graphics which makes it easier to understand some topics. Pseudonym: dri dri Commentsthe webpage describes the definition of a virtual company, explaining that is an organization that uses a high degree of telecommunications. Pseudonym: Barron23 CommentsThis website gives informative insights of the value chain and strategic IS. It provides a step by step process on how to understand a company's value chain. The article explains that the value chain can help business's pin point costs and profits to better understand the sources of value for their organization. Pseudonym: Duke1duke CommentsVery useful and accurate on needing to find any certain information over a subject or item Pseudonym: scandigirl CommentsThree men in north wales, UK, have been arrested in relation to the horse meat scandal. The scandal is that meat plants have been passing off horse meat for beef. The horse meat has been found in various beef and lamb products all over the UK. Pseudonym: amartinez116 CommentsThe reason I chose this website is because of an interesting topic we discussed in chapter 2 about competing in todays markets, which is being innovative. One of the many ways that was mentioned that some products stay afloat in todays competing markets was by them being innovative amongst other key factors. This website has a list of some of the latest innovations that come out every year that can help them change the market or create a brand new one! I believe that by a brand being truly innovative in the products or services they offer they can be great. Pseudonym: carloz Commentsgreat site for business to get their custom software Pseudonym: rigotovar CommentsThis website gives a description of what is business processing reengineering. Goals from the past aren't valid today, so businesses need to rethink their strategies in order to improve quality, time management and costs. BPS involves using information technology in order to reorganize and redevelop the way a business functions. Pseudonym: Cupcake! CommentsI found that the site was self-explanatory, easy to use and simple to understand. I liked that the website takes and extra effort to talk about value chains in a context of how they function globally. Very insightful. Pseudonym: cody CommentsWalt-mart has enforced cost leadership, therefore have been a successful business and even now are still growing. I was surprised to learn by this article that McDonald also enforced cost leadership as well. It makes perfect sense, why IKEA and Southwest Airlines are also growing, due to also using this Cost Leadership. Every company that is using Cost Leadership has been successful. Pseudonym: AYJDSC CommentsThere are a few competitive strategies companies can assume to gain an edge in the market. This website talks about steps a company can take to initiate a cost-leadership strategy. Pseudonym: Juliazzo CommentsThis site provides an insight into how competitive advantage works outside of the academia. It depicts real world scenarios and the importance of maintaining a competitive advantage. More importantly, it outlines the very real circumstance that an company may lose its edge within its industry and the steps some companies have taken to rebuild and become stronger. Pseudonym: shagfeh:) Commentsthis website has a great information about KMS. It takes about it in details. Pseudonym: DanceStrike CommentsThis website describes in greater detail the value chain and how value is created within an organization. It explains the elements of the value chain, the support activities and the primary activities. From which the article gives a good step-by-step process of how to implement the chain into a business. Pseudonym: spidey CommentsIt has some good information on what Management Information Systems is about, it also gives a history of how it came about. There are also some good definitions to help one understand what these systems are structured from. Pseudonym: rizoc0 CommentsThis reference is interesting on how they explain how knowledge also know as human capital is used in the workplace. Pseudonym: ajewlerygrl CommentsInvestopedia is one of the largest sites devoted entirely to investing education. It is also a resource for personal finance, market analysis, and free trading simulators. Pseudonym: Waffles CommentsVery interesting article on how most companies are using e-commerce and about only 11% of the companies in the U.S. still haven't implemented e-commerce into their companies. Pseudonym: dali0525 CommentsThis website defines Competitive Advantage and breaks it down into words and examples that are better understood. It lists reason why businesses succeed, or don't, and it also tries to make sense of it all for its readers. Pseudonym: mav@aut12 CommentsAbstract of the article found in the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 6 Issue 2(2003) 65-74, regarding six generic types of strategies for IS evaluation: Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 6 Issue 2(2003) 65-74The aim of this paper is to contribute to the decision of how to perform evaluation depending on the evaluation context. Three general strategies of how to perform evaluation are identified: Goal-free evaluation, goal-based and criteria-based evaluation. Two general strategies of what to evaluate are identified: IT-system as such and IT-system in use. From the three “how-strategies” and the two “what-strategies” we derive a matrix consisting of six generic types of evaluation. Each one of the six types are categorised on a ideal typical level. For each type there is suggested evaluation process model. 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The briefly discuss the Apple’s Pyramid of Innovation and what they call building an innovation factory Pseudonym: Ms. Bubbles CommentsI thought this topic was interesting and decided to look for more information about it or at least to try and understand it more. I found this website and was very nice to read more about the topic. I liked what they discussed in there. Pseudonym: quickninja CommentsThis is merely just a random website with the definition of this chapter. Pseudonym: 10 CommentsGives you a detailed explanation on what competitive advantage is. Pseudonym: BENZ Commentslearned the difference between tacit vs Explicit advantages. Pseudonym: vdelga36 CommentsInnovation can either make or break a business. If you discourauge innovation you may be facing a downfall in sales and retention of customers as well. When you create products that are better than other companies you are more likely to have better sales and business strategies. Opening up the floor for employees with different backgroundsm experiences and what not can easily create innovative ideas that will help a company flourish. Pseudonym: vdelga36 CommentsInnovation can either make or break a business. If you discourauge innovation you may be facing a downfall in sales and retention of customers as well. When you create products that are better than other companies you are more likely to have better sales and business strategies. Opening up the floor for employees with different backgrounds experiences and what not can easily create innovative ideas that will help a company flourish.In going forth with innovation you may end up with a product that no one else has at the time and this in turn can make radical changes to the business world. Pseudonym: 93nanis CommentsThis is a good article about how to build an alliance. It goes over some important points from the beginning of the alliance to work together once it is formed. Pseudonym: ra1122 CommentsGreat examples of Cost Leadership Pseudonym: pabolo CommentsHow to recognize competitive advantages. It teaches you where to look and what to cover in order to find them. Pseudonym: iramirez13 Commentsthis website gives you an idea of how a bpm works. Pseudonym: JudeVixen CommentsIt seems like a reliable web page and it holds many interesting topics. Pseudonym: PinkStar CommentsI thought it was very interesting to see all the companies plus the number of employees they have and their revenue. Pseudonym: mariela Commentsit is really interesant all the blogs about tecnology specially hardware and sofwares Pseudonym: Elvis CommentsThis explains how the forces have an influence in the strategy of a business. This article is short, but very well explained. Pseudonym: Batmansyndrome CommentsThe Walmart Procter & Gamble alliance has evolved into not only merchandise but also made for TV movies for family entertainment Pseudonym: lumineers CommentsThis website explains the distinction between explicit and tacit knowledge and provides a basis for understanding the different roles of computer-systems and human-systems. Pseudonym: Aby Martinez CommentsIt helped me to better understand how business is tied in with the economy and how companies analyze cost. Pseudonym: pkvaldez CommentsThis website talks about how information systems aid in the different forms talked about in class. Such as cost leadership, innovation, differentiation, and others. For instance, it goes on by saying that cost leadrship and differentiation can be used by companies with a broad scope of products while cost focus and innovation can be used on those with a more narrow customer base. This website gives a good understanding of what market forces target on and the strategies companies use. Pseudonym: blackwidow13 CommentsA video explaining what direction this company is headed. The company Cisco has the power of the network to multiply the impact of there technologies across there customer base. Pseudonym: Lumbo CommentsGood description of what brand identity is Pseudonym: enron CommentsGives a great definition on strategic information systems. It breaks down the meaning into key features. Pseudonym: falconawesome CommentsVery well written article in depth about the competitiveness of the cost leadership approach along with six sigma. Pseudonym: Nephew31 CommentsReview on how Wal Mart checks its inventory and how they keep it managed Pseudonym: pinklia CommentsThis website provides graphs which allows readers to grasp the information better. Also, it is very well organized. Pseudonym: drod360 CommentsI found the information on this website to be very useful. The reason being that it shows you how information technology is being used in different companies and by different people. Pseudonym: Pao_Jaz1326 CommentsMichael Porter explained that a firm’s strengths fall either cost advantage or differentiation. In the article, the author, Mr. Porter mentions the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy. These strategies are cost leadership, differentiation and focus strategy. Mr. Porter strongly suggest that a company should adopt one strategy at a time in order to avoid getting stuck in the middle. However,m also mentions that there are some time in which it is convenient to adopt more than one strategy. Very good article. So explanatory. Pseudonym: dreamdrea7 CommentsThis blog entry was insightful as it exemplifies the actual thoughts of a business man and his views of competitve advantage for his small business. Pseudonym: GDLDC21 CommentsI chose this website because I wanted to know of more examples of what businesses would be using Cost Leadership as a strategy to win over competitors. I found that Walmart, Southwest Airlines, and McDonalds are some of the most known cost leaders there are. By using cost leadership, they attract more customers and even if sometimes their prices may not be the lowest their customers will continue to go there because they are so used to trusting they will have the lowest prices. Pseudonym: aaguilar12 CommentsThis site explains how (SIS) helps companies to change their strategic plans, and how to become a more efficient company with a new strategy. Pseudonym: utepjb1237 CommentsThe website has slides which show the alliance between Costco and Kirkland Signature brand. It also shows the value chain Costco has and how it has developed that and maintains it. Pseudonym: SemperFi CommentsGood informative document Pseudonym: a. Fonts CommentsManagement information systems refer to the practice of integrating computer systems, hardware and software used to meet an organization’s strategic goals. A MIS basically provides companies with four different types of information: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive. A MIS has become very important in the areas of strategic support, data processing and managing by objectives. Because a MIS provides enormous amounts of information many companies think they make great investments. This holds true only if the information gained from the MIS generates a change in a company’s harmful behavior. Pseudonym: at15 CommentsIn this page the author explains what value chain and strategic IS is and how it is divided and who developed it. Pseudonym: Hobbit CommentsIn this webpage the strategies of the company are explained, they also tell how they manage that virtual company Pseudonym: baloga CommentsIt provides a full concept of what a system information technologies is. It mentions the strategies an organization may encounter with some examples. Pseudonym: llujanch CommentsIt has a full definition of a strategic information system. It also includes some key features which are important with some strategies examples. Pseudonym: eonline CommentsThe website explain in debt the strategic part which was something that I didn't have clear, so it was helpful. Pseudonym: Karly CommentsThis article talks about the many available ways to create a competitive advantage for your product and/or service. Within the article it also describes how businesses with a good alliance or unique sources of supply are able to provide products or services that are unique to their market thus giving them a strong competitive advantage over the competition. Pseudonym: Dan man always tan CommentsMany business' in the modern environment are lacking the proper innovation strategies. Innovation needs not only be done by better organization but also systematically. Pseudonym: ragf22 CommentsI recommend that this website be used for business purposes a very knowledgeable website. Pseudonym: chapita CommentsI really liked how they give details in a competitive advantage and if they have a competitive advantage is able to deliver the same benefits as competitors but at a lower cost. Pseudonym: Ronald CommentsThis site gives a little more feedback into the History of SABRE and how it has evolved Pseudonym: nano1991 CommentsIn this website, strategic information systems is well defined and explained. It even shows you the key features of it. Pseudonym: peair07 Commentsthis websites talks about the many threats that business face Pseudonym: devil dog CommentsThe history of the generations of computers is neatly put together in just one article, which makes it really comprehensive Pseudonym: Syerra Davis CommentsInforms about how nonprofit organization use IT. Pseudonym: lchav201 CommentsStrategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important topic for managers and researchers alike. However, there is evidence of a gap between SISP research and practice. Taking this situation as a motivation, we conducted an in depth case study on SISP to investigate this gap. The study was carried out in a German financial services company (FSC) over a period of five months in summer 2003. During this time, the enterprise situation and the information system (IS) practices situation of FSC were studied with respect to the SISP approach in place Pseudonym: The1kch Commentsarticle showing defference and what each is used for Pseudonym: star23 Commentsa knowledge worker works with his or her head, not hands, and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. Pseudonym: Tavo Commentsit is important for economic actors, firms, workers and policy makers to better understand how GVCs function in specific case and to have some tools to help predict how they might change over time. Because GVCs are spatially extensive, often organizationally fragmented, and sometimes highly dynamic Pseudonym: the tood CommentsInformation on strategic information systems Pseudonym: wacho CommentsIn that page you can find exaclty the definition of tacit knowledge. Pseudonym: a2dasj86 CommentsOur world today is rapidly changing in technology. This website explains how companies would be able to keep it with the "Jones's," to where that their products will not vanish like for instance "Floppy Disks." Pseudonym: gelmon CommentsThis website gives you a very detailed description of what a virtual company/corporation is, also provides examples of its structural organizations among other things. Pseudonym: purpley CommentsThis site explains what strategic information system is and the key features of strategic information system. Pseudonym: satin&salt CommentsThe goal of value chain is to create value that is greater than the price of producing the item through a inbound logistics, operations, marketing and sales, and the services after the item is sold. Pseudonym: 01batman CommentsThis article explains into depth forth types of competitive advantage such as Broad-Target Strategy, Narrow-Target Strategy, Differentiation Strategy, and Differentiation Strategy. Pseudonym: Dorian32 Commentsi find this article interesting because it shows that you have to have the internal power and learning capability in your business before you can have a competitive advantage. Pseudonym: SubsonicJoint CommentsThis website describes and illustrates a Value Chain in an efficient manner. Pseudonym: Girl325 CommentsI really liked the layout of this website. It broke everything down and expalained the importance of each strategy to a business. Pseudonym: mariposa CommentsThis reference page explains how Strategic Information Systems Planning has an maximum relevance and is important to managers and researchers. It explains the background of IT and the effects. Pseudonym: gia1 CommentsThis website explains everything about the value chains. It gives a Porter's Generic Value Chain graphic, explains the primary activities of the value chain. Explains the Cost Advantage and the value chain, differentiation and the value chain, technology and the value chain and outsourcing value chain activities. Pseudonym: nopainnogain CommentsThe website contains a flood of information about strategic planning, including SWOT analysis, competetive advantage, and so on. Pseudonym: Quesadilla8 CommentsThis webpage describes the differences between explicit and tactic knowledge, and how they are linked to computer-systems. Pseudonym: jmk1335 CommentsThis article was a good read. I agree with this article because there are many automations out there especially Microsoft Office, that provides great tools to automate reports and graphs. I think that many people buy this product without using it to its capability. Pseudonym: 01Robina CommentsThe main purpose of competitive strategy is to build a strong competitive advantage over the competition. Pseudonym: game of thrones fan CommentsThis article from Business week is an example of the importance of virtual companies Pseudonym: 03192010 CommentsThe value chain includes all the activities within a corporation to make a service or product. There are two parts, primary activities and support activities. Pseudonym: ghost602 CommentsBrief bio on Micheal Porter. Describes Porter's Five Forces of Competition, includes diagrams, and links for further research. Pseudonym: TeslaUTD CommentsIn class the slides that talked about high end products like Ferrari and Neiman Marcus really caught my eye because I always wondered how it was possible for them to have a successful business model having their products priced so high. I found this article that talked about how Air Emirates, a very lavish airline that is based in Dubai, is expanding their brand to make their very successful airline even bigger. Pseudonym: chago239 CommentsThis website is a slideshow that talks about all the innovation strategies. Pseudonym: Truly0221 Commentsthe website has a lot of information from events to careers that the sisg offer i thought it was impressive on the track record that they have for providing their costumers with world class applications which allow them to stay ahead of competition. they are able to accomplish this though the classes they offer at such places such as the IBM innovation centers. Pseudonym: reydrian CommentsJetblue is further implementing Information Systems, this time an outside corporation's (Google), into their flight experience. This implementation will improve the passengers' experience by allowing them to see where they are on a map and various other data about their current flight. Pseudonym: McLovin_24 CommentsThe article does a good job of explaining how an entrepreneur can sustain competitive advantage. It was not off base with what we studied in class: real intellectual property, a dynamic product line, cost improvement, team strength, locking in your customer base, and strong focus and differentiation. The only thing that was different from our class discussion was the focus on the team. I think the article is correct in emphasizing the importance of a strong, well connected, team. Pseudonym: Genesis13 CommentsSite gives a definition of both cost leadership and differential strategy and shows the grey area in between both. The strategy is dependent on certain factors of the market. Pseudonym: vivian Commentsthe web is ablog where people give they share case studies related to competitiveness trough IT. Pseudonym: piki3497 CommentsIt gives a very detailed explanation about competitive advantage. I enjoyed read it because it uses simple vacabulary. I mean it is not advance business language. Pseudonym: abercona01 CommentsGive you tips on creating an virtual company. Everything given with the advice from microsoft. Pseudonym: bmisk80 CommentsThe article talks about decision support systems, enterprise resource planning, database systems, and the real-time information systems. The article goes on to talk about the role of IT in strategic management, strategies for competitive advantage, and the concept of value chain. Overall the article is a good read and is informational. Pseudonym: psmo22 Commentseven though this link may be out of date, its was one of the most important articles from one of the most recognize university, Harvard. Since the begging of information technology the way an organization competes has change and until now it continues changing and its become a major focus to look up to make decision and improve process and many more stuff. Nowadays an organization without a good information tech wont have a chance to compete on the market. Pseudonym: Amy1212/ CommentsThis web page is very interesting because it explains in detail every one of the five competitive forces. Graphics are also very helpful to understand and memorize. Pseudonym: tia13 CommentsI wanted to learned if competitive advantage was strong enough to overcome the competition. In this article I learned that you need to analyze your competitive advantage and constant adaptation of strategies, tactics and activities you use in your organization for ensuring your competitive advantage. Very informative Pseudonym: Spiffy9899 CommentsThis site explains what a Strategic information system consists of and tells you the key features of the SIS. Pseudonym: ramos1 CommentsThis website explained the importance of strategic information systems. Keeping costs at a minimum is crucial for a company to succeed. Pseudonym: aslozoya CommentsI found this site very interesting, it helps as support material for the class Pseudonym: SPIDERMAN26 Commentsin this article they explain how information systems help to get great leads Pseudonym: zianav2348 CommentsThis is a website where you can find information about Strategic computer systems it is a company where they service to clients. It is an interesting site. Pseudonym: Charlie1427 CommentsThis site shows how organizations gain competitive advantage with IT Pseudonym: jordan99 Commentsthis is a very interesting page for people who is not to familiarize with computers and all other hardwares Pseudonym: SNCZDMR CommentsThis article explains why is it important to tie customers into your product and how it can be beneficial to your company Pseudonym: Lehan CommentsThis website is very helpful in the matter that it gives you the definition of Competitive Advantage used in the real world workplace. According to Kimberly Amadeo, Competitive Advantage is what distinguishes you from the competition in the minds of your customers. This website also gives you feedback on how and where to use competitive advantage. Pseudonym: 8kb24 CommentsGives a complete explanation of how strategic information systems can be planned out. Also myths about them Pseudonym: Zizou CommentsA very useful website that described and gave examples about knowledge management system. Pseudonym: Jrodr622 Commentsthis is a great website to gain the knowledge of information technology in the business world. It allows you to gage the importance of IT information technology in business. Pseudonym: a24ever CommentsI really enjoyed reading this article because it summarizes very explicit the value chain diagram. It starts by explaining what each of the 5 phases mean, then it moved on to explain the supporting activities, and at the end it explained the purpose of the Value Chain. If you do not understand the importance of the Value Chain, this article explains it in great details. Pseudonym: sparrow28 CommentsThis website explains how value chains can be helpful to both the firm and customers. It breaks down a step by step with examples how the value chain can be used to its maximum potential for both the business and customer. Pseudonym: camaro007 CommentsIn class we talked about the factors influencing competitive forces. Dee Beers was once one of the leading monopolists in the diamond industry, but as this article depicts its new competition lead to weaken their control over their monopoly. I believe that Dee Beers is in a great industry to general revenues regardless of the competition that they have amongst them. One thing I also note is that Dee Beers does not want to lose control over their monopoly and are changing the way they market their product. Even though they have already established brand identity, they will attempt to strengthen their name in order for individuals to purchase their diamonds over the competitions. Pseudonym: mineroxd CommentsDuring class, we discussed the importance of competitive strategies; one of them was Innovation. Innovation is a key success of why Google has been able to continue growing. As mention in the article, they have eight key goals that aid them to continue innovating. The eight pillars of innovation are great foundations that really help to establish a competitive strategy. I believe this had help Google substantially with their growth. As long as Google continues to innovate, they will keep growing as a company. Google being an information system, I consider this to be a great example of how innovation aids to success in IS. Pseudonym: knickerbockers4 CommentsThis article was very helpful in order to understand how value chain analysis contribute to the formation of products and services. Pseudonym: JR CommentsThe segway is a great invention, however it is interesting to know why it was not a total boom at all. Pseudonym: rattler2011 CommentsApple as a company is continuing to grow through innovation, brand identity. Apple is consistently showing a growth potential with each new iphone they launch. Apple is customer oriented by satisfying the needs and wants with each new iphone. Pseudonym: yoval21 Commentsthis web site has very accurate financial information about the company of your choice. this site can help you decide whether or not you want to invest. Pseudonym: Potato Overlord CommentsGreat insight. Concise and direct. Pseudonym: CAKRCB CommentsThis website pulled up a power point that really cleared up what cost leadership was. It gives a lot of information and even gives examples to help better understand the concept. I believe it can be very helpful for those who need a more detailed explanation. I would definitely recommend this url. Pseudonym: mf0109 CommentsThis webpage clarifies the difference between explicit and tacit knowledge. It explains how explicit knowledge is the knowledge that can be conveyed and passed on to other in diverse ways; while tacit knowledge is the knowledge that individual can attain by experiences and practices. Both are highly valuable for enterprises and all human beings. Pseudonym: crisofora2 CommentsThe site first gives an exact definition, then it applies it to real life examples. Competitive advantages give a company an edge over its rivals and an ability to generate greater value for the firm and its shareholders. Pseudonym: MissCarter28 CommentsThis website explains what BPR is and how it helps out a business. Pseudonym: JPots&Pans CommentsIt talks about all types of global value chains and how they can be used in worldwide markets. Pseudonym: Sauce2408 CommentsThe site provides good information about the differences between Explicit and Tactic Knowledge, it covers both really well and explains them as much as possible. Pseudonym: Taiedzi CommentsIt helped me a little better to understand what strategic informational systems are. It sounds like self explanatory but it is sometimes hard to fully understand it. Pseudonym: Taco062 Commentsto lower costs and increase quality of service. Pseudonym: Yassy CommentsThis page more in detail explains Knowledge management systems and even touches on the benefits of KMS. Pseudonym: niketw13 CommentsThis article talks about the new iphone 5s and the new technology that comes with it. This is the newest innovation to come into the market this week. Pseudonym: thatbackflip CommentsThese are the 3 basic steps that everyone confuses and tries to focus on the things that aren't the core! Pseudonym: jplozoya30 CommentsPretty much on changing how the business is being runned by changing job positions, job descriptions, organizational charts or formulas, personnel, career plans, and succession plans. About being innvovative and creating change to try and make the business succed. Pseudonym: lizdrio CommentsThis article helps me understand not only what Cost Leadership is but a list of companies that do it and how these companies can do this strategy. Pseudonym: dontay91 CommentsThe idea of a KM system is to enable employees to have ready access to the organization's documented base of facts, sources of information, and solutions. Pseudonym: natiger59 CommentsWebpage describes how governmental contact agencies utilize knowledge management systems to provide accurate and timely information to their customers. Pseudonym: Steelerfan CommentsThis simple webpage explains to detail what are exactly the economies of scale. Remember that in class this economies are one of the reasons enterprise have encouraging forces to continue. As the Economies are and advantage as they spread the per unit cost of the products you produce. This way new companies are created. Pseudonym: monstruo14 CommentsI actually enjoyed this page very much as it allowed me to understand knowledge business structure. It was veey interesting to find out that mainly, Knowledge created businesses are Japanese such as Honda and Canon. Pseudonym: LasiK CommentsExplains why content marketing is a valuable competitive necessity. It helps companies generate more sales and become more visible on a number of media marketing channels. (search and social media) Pseudonym: BRUCEWAYNE CommentsArticle informs about Toyota Motors Company cost reduction strategies which include's working with suppliers to cut cost, manufacturing innovations, and ultimately how the reductions benefit the consumer. Pseudonym: ABGiovanni11 CommentsEven though this article was written about thirty years ago, it talks about all the points that we talked about in class. Information systems have evolved throughout the years, and made it more easier for us to function when we are interacting with one another. Much faster, and more reliable. There is more available to us. Pseudonym: rwelliott CommentsThis website provides a brief overview of strategic information systems. The websites breaks (SIS)in to functional areas. The website also provides a list of references for those interested in learning more about the subject. Pseudonym: cglbryan2 CommentsProvides a formula for a better understanding on competitive advantage. Pseudonym: sndy26 CommentsIt explains the differences between tacit and explicit knowledge and practical ways to imporve their understanding and use. Pseudonym: acct_asd CommentsThe website provided above is an article focusing on three business strategies that companies are using to approach their goals. Cost leadership, differentiation, and price strategy are the strategies mentioned. The website is very helpful in allowing the reader understand clearly how each strategy functions. Pseudonym: acct_asd CommentsThe website provided above demonstrates three competitive business strategies that businesses apply to be able to approach their goals. Cost leadership, differentiation, and price strategy are the three strategies that the article above mentions. The website is very helpful because it separates each strategy and makes it very understanding for the reader to interpret. Pseudonym: GhostRider3 CommentsThis article is about the airline booking system SABRE. It is currently experiencing an outage involving its reservations system. Pseudonym: GLCF09 CommentsProvides a more detailed explanation of switching costs and how they are implemented in a business relative to it's competition Pseudonym: GhostRider3 CommentsThis article is about the airline booking system SABRE. It is currently experiencing an outage involving its reservations system. Pseudonym: mft1 CommentsCompeting with big business is easier than ever now that IT is so affordable.With IT being so readily available to small business they can rival their larger competitors,giving everyone a fair equal playing field. Pseudonym: Aubrey31 Commentsit just shows the new features on what the iPhone 5s will have and now they provide it in a gold color Pseudonym: Peaches CommentsBusiness strategies that can lead a company to gain competitive advantage and differentiate their product/service. Pseudonym: soccer_cr7 CommentsThe most common form of explicit knowledge can be in forms of documents, manuals, how-to videos, and procedures. Pseudonym: sbdesk22 CommentsThis is a 2013 article from the Wall Street Journal. I relate this article to chapter 2 not because of information system. I relate it to the chapter because it is a real life example of a thorough analysis of actual competitive advantage, in this case between not just companies but countries. In the article I relate the situation of the U.S. as analogous to cost leadership and innovation in the five competitive strategies from chapter 2. Pseudonym: Bisu CommentsThis website gives in details of why most product launches fail from the Harvard business review. Also they give out the top 10 products of which launched successfully, and discusses all of the factors Pseudonym: JB6CAJ3 CommentsThis article from 2008, explains how the competitive factors are used to understand competition and cope with it. It goes into detail in explaining the five forces that shape industry competition, providing the framework that is used for anticipating and influencing competition to promote profitability. Pseudonym: Gol.D.Roger CommentsThis website shows me the exact deffenition and how companies use switching cost. It shows mw that companies try to make a strategie so that no high cost is made and the, customer dosent change to anothers company or seller wit the same product ( or better said competition) Pseudonym: gmora15 CommentsThis article explains how IT can yield strategic advantage. It also elaborates how it contributes to capture knowledge and a business intelligence environment. Pseudonym: ayperez CommentsMind Tools gives a good description on how to create greater value of products when converting them from inputs into outputs. It also provides detailed information about Porters chart. Pseudonym: ScottyDont CommentsThe commercial aircraft industry is one with extreme barriers to entry in which Boeing has had a strangle hold on for many years. They are at risk of losing their long held competitive advantage in the industry. Government regulations threaten the research and development of many innovations in our country and have Boeing fearing the loss of its long held competitive advantage. Pseudonym: sharkyboy CommentsA journal article source Pseudonym: mhern754 CommentsThis article talks about how technology has changed the way we compete, mange, and give us an advantage to be able to work things out. Pseudonym: ljsg2 CommentsThis article talks about the five competitive forces : competitive intensity, threat of substitutes, buyer power, and barriers of entry. Pseudonym: jcsydb CommentsI like how the website lists the main advantages of product differentiation and clearly explains how it will improve sales. Pseudonym: jdd1214 CommentsCompetitive advantage is developing certain aspects of a business in order to have a hand up on the competition. Having this advantage solidifies a company's position compared to its competitors. This helped me understand there is a difference between competitive advantage and competitive necessity. Pseudonym: jdd1214 CommentsCompetitive advantage is developing certain aspects of a business in order to have a hand up on the competition. Having this advantage solidifies a company's position compared to its competitors. This helped me understand there is a difference between competitive advantage and competitive necessity. Pseudonym: Super987 CommentsIt gives the history of Strategic Information Systems Theory and it shows various charts. Pseudonym: Fraggle Tots CommentsTitan is being built to help support the fastest super computer. Titan is designed as to hold massage storage and to calculate information with such speed to keep up with the super computer. Pseudonym: meagatron CommentsThe review makes a note of the new OS by stating that its biggest competitor was actually its predecessor, Windows XP. One of the problems being that XP already contains many of the same features that come with Vista so the transition would seem fruitless. Pseudonym: vikk258809 CommentsThis article is brief but goes to the point about what strategic information system is. It shows the areas that require strategic information systems. it also gives career opportunities if we choose CIS as a major. Pseudonym: itsme23 CommentsI found this website interesting because it offered another advantage that wasn't mentioned in our lecture. Attitude is also an important copetitive advantage. If you keep a positive attitude is more efficient. Pseudonym: ChargedGBH CommentsExplains a type of information management system responsible for analyze very large amounts of data that were previously not able to be analyzed because of software and data collection limitations. Pseudonym: Airborne CommentsEven though companies may be wedded to long-established or seasonal launch dates, they would do well to delay if waiting might increase the odds of success Pseudonym: sdbanda CommentsThis site looks at different aspects of information technology in business and how business utilizes these technology to gain advantages. It discusses a lot of strategic applications with technology. Pseudonym: aggarcia44 CommentsThis website provides a brief and accurate information about the relationship among business strategy, organizational strategy, and information strategy.In just few sentences you can understand what it is about. Pseudonym: aggarcia44 CommentsThis website provides a brief and accurate information about the relationship among business strategy, organizational strategy, and information strategy.In just few sentences you can understand what it is about. Pseudonym: JumpinJR CommentsBad things happen when computers go out. Pseudonym: lbsanchez CommentsWhat this website shows is a list of companies who are constantly innovating. Whether its their products, their marketing approaches or anything else that has to do with their businesses, they are constantly keeping up with improving. Innovation is a key factor to a successful company like the ones listed on the website. Especially with technology constantly improving, the needs and wants of your target market are also changing. Pseudonym: darellano2 CommentsThe business organization learns so that our knowledge base continues to grow and evolve. IT plays an important role for strategic advantage in any business. Information technology contributes to gain knowledge and to obtain a business intelligence environment. Pseudonym: Raven CommentsThis website describes the five levels of the adoption curve, which are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. It gives samples of what kind of people will fit into each category. Pseudonym: japer CommentsJobs is unquestionably a great innovator, many companies succeed by pursuing innovation quite differently Pseudonym: Dancer23 CommentsThis webpage talks about the different competitive strategies in business and how there is a cross-functional team that helps create it. Pseudonym: pacman2010 CommentsThis site identifies the origin of customer loyalty programs, illustrates thier purpose and importance and also can be used as a quick reference guide to what kind of programs to use to accomplish certain objectives. Pseudonym: Texan8 CommentsThis website describes the technologies that need to develp more in 2013 in order to help business in competitice advantage. It is important to know that technology can help businesses to be more efficient. The following key technologies have to develop more in order to help businesses in competitive advantage. Big data, business analytics, business and social collaboration, cloud computing, mobile technology, and social media. Developind in Business analytics is ranked in the top priorities for business. Having more control on metrics, and predictions will help business be more competitive. Pseudonym: Texan8 CommentsThis website describes the technologies that need to develp more in 2013 in order to help business in competitice advantage. It is important to know that technology can help businesses to be more efficient. The following key technologies have to develop more in order to help businesses in competitive advantage. Big data, business analytics, business and social collaboration, cloud computing, mobile technology, and social media. Developind in Business analytics is ranked in the top priorities for business. Having more control on metrics, and predictions will help business be more competitive. Pseudonym: bacon7 CommentsIt gives an advantage to the business in technology education. Pseudonym: killerbee CommentsIt explains in detail about organizational redesign. Also executives at organizations that succeeded point to some key tactics for implementation. Very helpful in understanding the concept a little more. Pseudonym: SHOWTIME32 CommentsThis website talks about how content marketing is a competitive necessity for some businesses to stay competitive. It describes how content marketing has helped companies increase sales, as well as joining new media marketing (search and social media). Pseudonym: monchepe CommentsDifferent methosd are used by corporations in order to effectively manage corporate data. This web site will answer many wuestions about new ideas and procedures. Pseudonym: monchepe CommentsDifferent methosd are used by corporations in order to effectively manage corporate data. This web site will answer many wuestions about new ideas and procedures. Pseudonym: juang7 Comments- This website help me to get a better understanding of the importance of competitive advantage for businesses. - The possible threats businesses might have when they have had competitive advantage for a long time - Also explain how competitive advantage can be obtained through the value chain of the company Pseudonym: Whiteman CommentsThis webpage details knowledge management systems. After giving an explanation about this topic, it dives in farther and discusses explicit, implicit and tactical knowledge among other related topics from the chapter. Pseudonym: MadridJet86 Commentsfull with information, some of what that I cant comprehend but still very knowledgeable Pseudonym: Double-D CommentsThis website gives inside info on the innovation of new technology. They also describe hoe the product wil do in the real world Pseudonym: vccorrales CommentsExplains how apple needs to be innovated to keep up with other cheaper products to keep up with them. Pseudonym: kokeloke22 Commentsthis site is a short journal of Strategic Information Systems focuses on the management, business and organizational issues associated with the introduction and utilization of information systems as a strategic too Pseudonym: fifimine CommentsA Strategic Information System (SIS) is a system that helps companies change or improve their strategy. It is typically to make faster their response to environmental changes also aid it in achieving a competitive advantage Pseudonym: andres_iab88 CommentsWikipedia covers a broad area in what strategis information system is. What i liked a lot of this article is that it gives us Dr. Michael E. Porter competitive advantage summary from his book. Pseudonym: MaverikKuro Commentsshows the stages the product must go through. Pseudonym: monstruo14 CommentsThis page is interesting because it provides some knowledge or "strategies" in order to create a good and effective cost leadership. Pseudonym: Johnnyb CommentsThanks so much for the blog article.Really thank you! Awesome. Pseudonym: BAMBOO CommentsIn this website I was able to understand the meaning of SIS which are information systems that are developed in response to corporate business initiative. It is a little complicated to understand the meaning of it, but with this website I was able to understand what it means. I love wikipedia is very specific. Pseudonym: brem92 CommentsNadella enters the company thinking "BIG" he wants to make a change, and give the company a complete technology empower. Pseudonym: cmarq101 CommentsThis website talks about electronic commerce. Electronic commerce market place is a good way to do business.It shows how to operate a webstore. It talks also about some considerations in electronic commerce opportunities. Some of the opportunities that electronic commerce offers is that the way to pay is flexible and that the customers can receive a receipt for their purchases. Pseudonym: Denise CommentsI agreed with the fact that most small businesses stay small and are not necessarily successful for it. Intensive growth, integrated growth, and diversification were the three capacities for small business growth. It was interesting to see the requirements needed for each of the different paths to growth. Pseudonym: villa175 CommentsThis site explains what parts are involved in computer hardware. Gives a detailed account of what each piece of hardware functions are. Boring to read but informative. Pseudonym: cr4 Commentsan interesting article about how value chains affect the market. Pseudonym: TinyTots CommentsGave decent explanation and even supplied a photo of the cycle itself. Also went into detail on the different stages. Pseudonym: Radar O'Reilly CommentsThis website very clearly (although briefly) explains the importance of Strategic Information Systems Planning. Pseudonym: Dr. Claw CommentsBasically covers everything we covered in chapter 2 plus it gives the perspective of CIO's. Pseudonym: Rude:Buoy CommentsThe article briefly explains how small businesses are competing with larger ones thanks to IT systems. It is an old article, but still covers all the necessary bases. Pseudonym: ZaAl CommentsThe website is asking for help on any information to fix an older generation computer, the Benedix G-15. They also describe the different types of technologies they had to transfer information on these first generation computers. Pseudonym: Ua1292 CommentsThe article presents a different point of view of what we saw in class but it gives the same idea that we should know about technologies, and how this has become one of the major topics in our era. Pseudonym: Shorty915 CommentsThe website goes over its top pick for 2013's most innovative companies and why it put them on their list. For example, it's pick for the most innovative company is Nike for "a pair of revolutionary new products and a culture of true believers". Pseudonym: 170792lrsr CommentsThis website helped me understand that even the smallest change in any aspect of the business can have a positive effect on the company. Business owners and managers have to be in the constant look out to modernize and improve the quality of their products / services in order to be successful. Pseudonym: Karlaa7292 CommentsPeople discuss how technology is allowing them to compete with big businesses Pseudonym: cobb CommentsThis page has examples of what organizations use informations systems to react to entry threats, as well as generate databases for marketing and to give customers benefits in order to gain a competitive advantage. There is also mention of lowering internal costs to counter competitors discount prices. Pseudonym: BabySquirrel CommentsThere are many different types of information systems that help a business perform day-to-day tasks. One of which, is transaction Processing systems. Which, process data in real time or over extended of periods. The one that seems to be most useful to managers is management support systems. This type of system aids managers much of their day-to-day decision-making needs. Pseudonym: utepztmp9 CommentsThis is a very helpful site that explains how bits and bytes work. It breaks the concept of bytes down for a better understanding and to know how it is measured. It uses quantitative examples to explain the concept of bits and bytes, it specifically gives examples of the decimal places and says how are these related to the units of measurement used in the computer systems. The article gave a helpful metaphor that helps the reader understand better the bit and byte and why do they always come together depending on the number of bit or bytes.It also gives real life deeper examples in the text. And it explains that the standard ASCII character is used more often and gives concrete examples on how are the codes from this set, depending on the characters, used in the computer. Pseudonym: scr2727 CommentsI enjoyed looking through this article because it not only defined what competitive advantage was, but also strategies, tactics, and actions one could take. it mentioned that long term business relationships with our customers is the best situation to be in. That providing better quality, faster delivery, better service, and offering value at a low price all make the customer happier and in turn makes the company unique with these tactics which attracts more customers, hence more profit. It also states that your "milestone" to judge your competitive advantage is by looking at your competition. As in what do they offer and the price versus what your company offers and their prices. Overall, the article was insightful and concise. It explored each aspect of competitive advantage within business and listed ways to improve your own competitive advantage. Pseudonym: -Henry0924- CommentsThere is an actual job to just manage the product life cycle for a particular product or an entire company of products. Pseudonym: princessblue4 CommentsThe article is about findings on how agile is being used and where is is going of research of companies that have scaled to larger projects. Pseudonym: cd26493 CommentsIt is important to know all the important concepts that this chapter covers. One of this concepts is to know what Information Systems is. Information Systems can change the way businesses compete. Also, Information systems are a means of organizational restructuring to allow organization to adapt, and the most important thing Information Systems are a necessary investment in technologies that help a company adopt strategies and business processes that help to reinvent itself in order to survive and succeed in today's dynamic business environment. Pseudonym: ano0630 CommentsThis website provides awesome examples of actual firms that show the ability to minimize cost and pass on the savings onto the customers. Some firms that are included are: Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Ikea, and southwest airlines. This website also reassures that there are three strategies to focus on when it comes to marketing your business which would be: focus, differentiation and cost leadership. Pseudonym: princess13 CommentsI chose this article because it explains how some companies fail to use innovation in their products, and they stick with what they know, instead of creating something new and to think outside the box, such as Apple. Pseudonym: jvizcar3 CommentsThis website is really good! It explain what SIS is and also, explain the Key features of the Strategic Information Systems. It is easy to understand. Pseudonym: Xiit92 CommentsThis is a really helpful website. The main purpose is to give definitions of business concepts, but it also has articles, tips, public opinions and videos all related to business matters. Since it's basically a dictionary only for business you can find a lot of the concepts that you see in class and you still don't quite understand. The definitions are short and easy to comprehend and the articles are really informative and you get the chance to share your opinions posting a comment. Pseudonym: Broncos87 CommentsCost leadership strategy is something many companies and industries use to up their competition in the market place. It makes it harder for companies to compete against one another as well as help raise the speed of production. If a company uses the cost leadership strategy is used correctly it can be very effective. Pseudonym: yaako23 CommentsThis webpage suggest how to behave in the market as a competitive strategy, for example if the competency lowers their price, how you should react, and see if you can afford the change. Competitive Strategy is about tha way a company can gain a competetive advantage by implementing an effective way of competition. Pseudonym: Blue Moon CommentsThis is a good website on the history of Cisco to present. A time line from 1994 to present. Pseudonym: Blue Moon CommentsThis website provides feed back when Cisco was created, by who, and the development through the years. This is a very helpful website for those who are new to Cisco. It also provides a time from 1994 to present. Pseudonym: asortiz CommentsAs mentioned in class, strategic IS is any kind of information system that uses information technology to help an organization gain a competitive advantage. When we speak of technology, Apple is one of the companies who have a successful competitive advantage innovating products using technology. Pseudonym: MATRIX CommentsThis website shows several ways in which you can improve and enhance your competitive strategies to further succeed. Pseudonym: Megatron CommentsThis article explains their innovation strategy in order to keep their systems up with their expanding customer traffic. Pseudonym: Jad8 CommentsThis website will give you a better understanding on Roger's Bell Curve. It relates the curve to social media and how websites are using social media platforms to reach different demographics. The website is dated in 2011 so the statistics are probably a little off but makes it easier to understand the adoption of the new technologies. Pseudonym: macelp CommentsThis article gives a quick overview of what switching costs are and how they can affect companies. Pseudonym: 951033 CommentsIt states comparative advantage is the most important aspect in international theory, and also the most misunderstood. Pseudonym: CO12 CommentsThis website was helpful with telling me a little bit more about business process reengineering and about how to implement a BPR projects. Also it talks about the tools required to support BPR. Overall it was a good website because I have always heard about BPR but never really knew what it was. Pseudonym: eanais88 CommentsIn this page, we can find the specific steps and details to work with the value chain process. Very useful site. Pseudonym: Ailany06 CommentsA good article if you want to know more about Product Life Cycle. Pseudonym: TopFlight27 CommentsThis website provides you with information about what competitive strategies to use to enter a market. It also asks fundamental strategic questions in order to help you figure out exactly what your competitive strategy should be. Pseudonym: James Franco CommentsThis reference takes a look at one of the largest computer technology firms named cPrime that has made its company better with Agile training. Since doing so cPrime has shown a increase in releases time by 780 percent. The Senior Architect goes into detail about why they use Agile training and how they moved to it in order to become a more successful company. Pseudonym: belfortGOAT CommentsThe website linked to an article studying the effectiveness of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) in major Australian companies. Pseudonym: San Antonio CommentsThe site gives an idea of what it takes to create a virtual company. It gives five tips to focus on if someone were to try and start their own. The site advises one to focus on their main strengths as well as remembering to have the human element rather than focusing solely on using technology. Pseudonym: dareliari CommentsIt is a good reference on how to have a successful virtual company. It was very easy to read and understand. Pseudonym: dareliari CommentsIt gives us great information on why it is important to have knowledge management. Article is short and not too intense. Pseudonym: Koenigsegg CommentsThe page provides simple explanations to counter competition in an industry. Pseudonym: vjimenez2 CommentsIt is amazing how some companies have gone almost completely virtual as in the example of the article says about Auttomatic its office is nearly empty with only about 8 workers in the office while all the other employees work virtually. Pseudonym: Cember CommentsThis site has great information on strategic management and is subtitled "All you need to know about Strategic Management." The information is presented in a way that is easy to understand. The main topic is first defined and then a further explanation is given. They cover many areas of strategic management, including competitive advantage, and they provide links to other resources. This is a useful site that is to the point and is easy to navigate through. Pseudonym: miniondave CommentsThis website is a guide for businesses to become SISG's customers to provide them guidance for a better outcome of their company. SISG has consultants, CPA's, and specialists in the field of Information Technology. Their goal is to make them leaders, not just equal to their competition. They research, analyze, and find solutions for the company's success. Pseudonym: Fefe CommentsThis article gives examples of retailers that are implementing cost leadership and strategy marketing successfully Pseudonym: gamma CommentsThree key reasons why actively managing knowledge is important to a company’s success are: 1.) Facilitates decision-making capabilities, 2.) Builds learning organizations by making learning routine, and, 3.) Stimulates cultural change and innovation. Pseudonym: Andromeda17 CommentsSince it is an article, there is a limit of the article. However, it is a good website and it would be good to register to get more information about the articles. Pseudonym: H1993 Commentsit's really good site and I really learn from it. Pseudonym: Mockingjay CommentsThis article serves as an extensive summary of Competitive Strategy with emphasis placed on the complex environment and viable progression of competition. Prior to engaging in a strategy, the author states the necessity to monitor and diminish competitive dangers. Pseudonym: Leon voss CommentsThe site helps explain what a competitive advantage is and it even shows a model of the several steps it follows Pseudonym: Lula12 CommentsShort and precise. It explains every bullet point and main idea. I liked that the author used real life scenarios for explanations. Very helpful. Pseudonym: BasedDog CommentsThis provided useful insight into successful strategies of implementing SIS in actual enterprises. Pseudonym: 508254 CommentsThis website has great structure and organization. It breaks down the levels of the Value Chain and explains each part of it. It shows a diagram which is easy to read and the colors are simple so there isn't much distraction. Pseudonym: markapple0507 CommentsThis websites goes in depth and not only talks about the different parts of the Technology life cycle but gives great examples of who is part of each section. Such is an example of the company Vimeo entering the Bowling alley part of the cycle Pseudonym: sonnybrix CommentsNice article by Forbes discussing the true advantages companies have in this business climate. Not too long and has some valuable information in it. Pseudonym: BntFalas6een CommentsThis article explains in depth the factors that affect competition in the market. Rivalry, threat of new entrants, threat of substitute products or services, bargaining power of suppliers, and bargaining power of buyers are these factors. Pseudonym: Marz CommentsThis website describes the roles and advantages of virtual companies. It describes how other companies come together in order to sell a product that will benefit all of them. Virtual Companies take the products and services to the market through technology. Pseudonym: 11K23E13Q Commentsis a good page it explains all about this topic and also gives some issues. Pseudonym: Heisenberg CommentsSummary of Porters model, including tables and charts that help explain how it's implemented in today's industries. Great examples Pseudonym: bebin CommentsThe article talks about how a company can effectively use information systems and technology to improve their business and uses two different examples. Pseudonym: CRONALDO7 CommentsTechnology can be used to improve and create competitive advantage by implementing information systems. Pseudonym: KGA2014 CommentsThis website's explanation of what a substitute is helped me understand much better what it is. Pseudonym: 7631mus50 CommentsThe IT department will be streamlined and highly specialized and will depend on the cloud. It will also go hand and hand will business strategies. Pseudonym: aa44 CommentsThis website is from walmart's department store. It has very good prices that people can find their products cheaper vs. other grocery stores that are higher in their prices. Pseudonym: TX Trooper CommentsThis is a website about Target Inc. making alliances to make US healthy emotionally and physically with its customers and employees. Pseudonym: Americanvet2009 CommentsInformation Systems are a necessary investment in technologies that help a company adopt strategies and business processes that enable it to reengineer or reinvent itself in order to survive and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment. Pseudonym: zar23 CommentsThis websites focuses on the 3 main ideas that a small business should Implement to be successful. It breaks down what "cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategy" is. You may also watch some videos on this website. Pseudonym: Drywall85 CommentsGreat artical, that expands on what strategic IS is. Pseudonym: grumpy_diver CommentsGood article about how Walmart is considering trying smaller stores to compete with stores like Aldi. Pseudonym: bookworm29 CommentsThis website gives a more complete description of tacit and explicit knowledge and how that links to teams and knowledge building. Pseudonym: Basketball21 CommentsThrough this article, again, I learned that innovation is extremely important in the business world. It is important to maybe even have a team dedicated to research and development with a main focus in innovation. If you innovate a new product that is new and modern, most likely high in technology you have a greater chance of making it in the business world. Pseudonym: Jrhernandez CommentsIt explains the problems of being a small company, like not having enough credibility. It tell us how to improve that aspect of our company by adding a "virtual company" . In other words a marketing alliance. Pseudonym: recasa CommentsIt provides good information if Strategic information systems. Good definitions and key features of strategic information systems. Pseudonym: Asa92 CommentsVery informative and up to date so you can see how IT effects everyday life. Pseudonym: DjangoUnchained20 CommentsVery insightful. Mostly Subjective. Pseudonym: Ailany CommentsIts a good article of how an individual get started with his first computer back in 1982 when going to buy a Morse code kit. Pseudonym: coti CommentsFundamental competitive strategy concepts that underlie the strategic use of information system and major strategic applications of information technology used by many companies today Pseudonym: happyguy CommentsGreat article to help explain Competitive Strategies Pseudonym: aesal91 CommentsI find very interesting the fact that information technology can help create competitive strategies to create an advantage over your competition. It also mentions that IT helps the growth of sales and I would never have thought about that. Pseudonym: coti CommentsGain competitive advantage Reduce a competitive advantage Meet other strategic enterprise objectives` Pseudonym: 88qwerty Commentsgives you an idea about how it works Pseudonym: espno007 CommentsThis website gives a brief explanation of various types of Information systems. The one I was most curious about was the inter-enterprise information system; which is a system that links various enterprises to smooth out their business transactions. With the use of Electonic Data Interchange inter-enterprise information systems have become a major factor to global business today. Pseudonym: TxBell11 CommentsI did not quite understood the main point of knowledge information systems, that is why I decided to search for more information, that would help me see the essence of this type of systems. This website clearly explained that KMS are basically build to better the standing of the business, these include improving the collaboration of the business and stores and retrieves knowledge. Pseudonym: Marlene Terrazas CommentsArticle about the IS system and functions on business Pseudonym: phantom CommentsOn this website i found that there is 5 general criterial that differentiate strategic alliance from conventional alliances. The first factor is Critical to the success of a core business goal or objective that have large but unrealized revenue opportunity. The second one is competitive advantage in my opinion this is really important because the firm should prove to be competitive in the market. the third one is Blocking a competitive threat this happens when the manufacturing company do not permit low-priced product entry.The four one is Future strategic options is very important to look forward plan for future needs.The last one is risk mitigation, the nature of risk. Pseudonym: Watermelon CommentsThe article describes the relationship between the attributes or characteristics of an innovation and the adoption or implementation of that innovation. Pseudonym: Clark Kent CommentsDuring the lecture I did not quite understood why we were talking about Business Process reengineering, because of the choice of words and all, also I was not able to understand the reason of why a company would use this term. This website explains that Business Process Reengineering is used when a company want to Business Process Reengineering involves the radical redesign of a business processes to achieve a dramatic improvement in their productivity and quality. Pseudonym: strawberry CommentsThis website gives you a thorough understanding of competitive advantage. By identifying and explaining the four strategies associated with competitive advantage, this website provides useful information. Pseudonym: lrthcis1 CommentsThis article talks about how important customer service is for a business, and how the treatment you receive as a customer defines the success of the business. It analyzes why so many businesses fail due to ignoring customers, it also explains why it is important to know what makes you different from other business and why would customers prefer you. Pseudonym: oneal CommentsThe copious amounts of detail analyzing the foundation of strategic planning was surprising to say the least. This website provides every aspect that there is to know about applying strategic planning. It provides everything from the core foundation, to guidelines to follow when implementing strategic planning, to insight about the benefits, to advice about how to monitor, control and manage change from the plan. Overall, a very credible and knowledgeable website. Pseudonym: totx4119 CommentsInformation technology has evolved throughout time. There is a shortage of understanding everything information technology has the potential to accomplish. There are four fundamental domains, business strategy, information technology, organizational infrastructure and processes, and informational infrastructure and processes. This model have two important factors, strategic fit and functional integration. Pseudonym: Lampard55 CommentsThis article written by Michael Porter, a professor from Harvard, explains the five competitive forces that a company has to deal with in an industry. It also includes a video of Porter explaining how these forces apply to industries like airlines. Pseudonym: TC13 CommentsThis website explains and gives examples of the product life cycle stages. Pseudonym: lrodr40 CommentsThis website goes into deeper details to whom it developed the value chain and strategic IS. It also discuss how it can help determine its strengths and weaknesses in an organization. Pseudonym: vietnamese Commentsit explain what is the virtual business, and give some example for it Pseudonym: Benito Juarez CommentsWhat I like about this webpage is that it give you the three main questions of the differentiation strategy. For example - 1.Is my brand the first in the category to claim this differentiating idea? If one of your competitors already owns that positioning your best bet is to explore a different option. 2.Will my company be able and willing to deliver on that competitive advantage over a long period of time? Brand building takes a long time, consistency and perseverance. If management is not willing to allocate the necessary resources (which vary depending on the industry and level of competition) then your strategy will die in its infant stages. 3. Does my differentiation idea translate into a meaningful benefit for the consumer? If the consumer is not willing to pay for it then you have to start from scratch. And it also explain if the products they are differentiate are appropriate to the bran. It also explain us in four easy ways how to differentiate a product, product features, manufacturing process, performance, and design. Pseudonym: zoom24 CommentsThis website contains a kind of power point presentation with a very useful slides, about the Information Technology. Pseudonym: zigma1220 CommentsThis site gives three strategies about how can a small business can stay in the market and how consumers can differentiate their products from others. Pseudonym: JME0912 CommentsBasic video on logistics, what UPS and FedEx does to maintain efficiency. Pseudonym: Mickey19 CommentsThis webpage was very helpful for me while I was looking to understand what Competing with information Technology exactly means. Pseudonym: miaama9 CommentsThis website helped me to better understand the different stages of the product life cycle. It breaks down each individual stage and gives simple bullet points to further differentiate the steps. Pseudonym: seashell CommentsThis particular strategy of the five strategies interested me and this website helped me learn more about it. Pseudonym: ricalavi2 CommentsInformational article about agile companies advantages Pseudonym: hesbee CommentsHighlighted and explained "The Five Competitive Forces that shapes the structure of competition in an industry". Pseudonym: jcdmb1019 CommentsI wanted to learn a little more about the product life cycle, so I found a website that gave me more information on the stages. It told me each stage, and then gave me details on what exactly happens in each of those stages. I did like this site because it gave me exactly what I was looking for without having to read too much. Pseudonym: chats7 CommentsThis website helps understand a little better what strategies for competitive advantages are. Pseudonym: gordies CommentsAt first gives a Primary Value Chain. Then gives definitions on inbound logistic, operation, outbound logistics, marketing Sales and services. Goes into support activities, value chain, and the value system and some recommended reading. Yes I do recommended reading this website for more information on value chain. Pseudonym: gordies CommentsAt first gives a Primary Value Chain. Then gives definitions on inbound logistic, operation, outbound logistics, marketing Sales and services. Goes into support activities, value chain, and the value system and some recommended reading. Yes I do recommended reading this website for more information on value chain. Pseudonym: bugwithani18 CommentsAnother source for information on Product Life Cycle Stages. Shows the stages in dvd, blueray, tv, and cassette. Pseudonym: Jak CommentsThis interesting article shows various types of systems that small organizations use today. Pseudonym: zlatan CommentsIn order to have an competetive advantage you must break down the definition to be succesful. You have to be competive in a full scale. you must be the one who solve the problema to your custumer. Pseudonym: jvill283 CommentsOn this site it explains how the ENIAC worked pertaining to how to input data to solve different equations. This computing machine definitely made life much simpler for those in the 1950's due to the amount of time saved. Even though this device was of large-scale, it was used to solve a number of calculations ranging from simple to more complex; it definitely increased accuracy. Pseudonym: BarbaraNell CommentsActually, I was looking for instructions on running credit cards on an iphone, but this is what I came up with. Pseudonym: tshaba01 CommentsIs pretty interesting how a simple but yet intricate system can manage so much information in a matter of seconds. As well reducing the labor cost which might be bad for the employees but great for the company, especially cost it doesn't cost as much and bring in more profits. Pseudonym: JonahHill CommentsThis article shows how smaller businesses are using technology to compete with larger, more established businesses. Pseudonym: Anna CommentsBusiness Process Reengineering is very inportant to a successful business. This site explain the purpose of Business Process Reengineering in that it seeks to help companies radically restructure their organizations by focusing on the ground-up design of their business processes. This site also explains the steps and procedures that govern how resources are used to create products and services that meet the needs of particular customers or markets.Overall,business process reengineering is the rearrangement of how to do things within a business to improve and enhance the business. Pseudonym: Hannah Hunt CommentsThe article explains what switching costs are. It also gives several examples to allow the reader to fully understand what switching costs are and how they work. Pseudonym: Armando0510 CommentsThis article give out three reasons why information technology can help create or increase a competitive advantage that will make a business succesful. Pseudonym: Mlle.C CommentsThe four Competitive Advantage Strategies in this article explain how a Company can differentiate its product in order to add significative greater value to its costumers, such as cost differentiation. Pseudonym: thaliaexists Commentsgoes into more detail about the SABRE system talked about in class. Pseudonym: BBW69 CommentsThis article expands on topics introduced in the Chapter 2, including the fact that IT speeds up business transaction. This article explains how crucial IT integration is for businesses. Pseudonym: mrsangryowl CommentsThis website is only valuable for the definition of a value chain. For the most part, it is similar to the definition that was provided in the powerpoint. It explains what a value chain is very well. Pseudonym: Elopez04 CommentsThis article talks about competitive advantage and how it works in companies and business . Also shows the consulting groups that survived to the first research of competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Arone Carruthers CommentsThe article went into further detail on what was included in the power points regarding how firms use SIS to maintain a competitive advantage. Such as creating barriers for other firms to not enter a market. Even generating databases to improve their marketing tactics. They also use SIS to lower internal costs and IS can be also used to be able to lock in customers and suppliers from lower prices created by IS's Pseudonym: Striker13 CommentsDemonstrated case studies for different industries Pseudonym: 91dasher CommentsThis website gives detailed information on the role of information technology through strategic advantage. It is a very informational site because the chief information officer of a business gives his personal insight on the strategies he used. Pseudonym: Harmon 1982 CommentsIs a brief description about computer hardware and the common objects known as "hardware" Pseudonym: vch23 CommentsI like this artible because it describes perfectly what competitve advantage is. Pseudonym: vch23 CommentsI like this artible because it describes perfectly what competitve advantage is. Pseudonym: vch23 CommentsI like this artible because it describes perfectly what competitve advantage is. Pseudonym: marielymendoza CommentsThis website help me learn about information technology to a more board way and how it can support business operations and many others ways. Pseudonym: Onrole8911<3 CommentsAs it was mentioned in class an IT strategic advantage is organizational redesign or business reengineering. In the article of “IT for Strategic Advantage” it’s is furthered explain the job of a certain person, the job of the business reengineering. This person explains the advantages that their products will have not only towards them as producers but to us as consumers. This article is a good example on understanding more about what advantages there is for the IT. Pseudonym: mmedi06 CommentsThis article was very helpful in understanding why Information Technology changes the way you compete. It also provides you with many examples which I thought were very helpful. Pseudonym: Dumbo CommentsThis site goes into detail and reasoning on why startups fail. Like the slides in this chapter it explains those reasons in more detail with visuals to help understand the concept more clearly. Pseudonym: isacesquivel CommentsThis is an extremely interesting article discussing the importance of IT in business. Not only is it a competitive advantage, but serves as a tool to bound the whole business together in a more organized fashion. Pseudonym: luna493 CommentsThe article explains how Rogers original bell curve has been replaced by a new chart called "shark fin". This new chart shows how consumers are not afraid to purchase products that enter the market very fast, but are also known to discontinue using them just as fast. Causing a "big bang", when the new product is placed in the market, but right after a "cliff" where the interest of the product is lost. Pseudonym: Isamara CommentsThis website gave me a lot of information on the 5 competitive strategies, also provided me with a video Pseudonym: funky54 CommentsA government as large and complex as the City of El Paso requires an extensive portfolio of software and business applications. Pseudonym: sm2468$ CommentsThe artical talks about how a small business can have an competitive advantage if certain fundamentals are put in place. It talks about six steps needed in the development of the value chain. They are as follows: product design, production process,marketing and sales, distribution managment,and customer service. Pseudonym: Gringo19 CommentsA good explanation of the differences between an agile company Vs a staid company Pseudonym: 083010 Comments•A focused, or market-niche, strategy based on lower cost •A focused, or market-niche, strategy based on differentiation Pseudonym: 083010 CommentsThis website provides five competitive strategies that are similar to the ones we learned. Some are different but still relevant. Pseudonym: SummerLove CommentsThis is an article published by the Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota and it talks about the consistency and validity of the IS Markets such as internal and external consistency Pseudonym: RE1211RR CommentsThis a good website talk about Competitive advantage in a easy way to understand Pseudonym: AA756 CommentsAfter learning about the generations of computers in lecture and reading about it in the power point slides. This website shows more photos and gives other details. Pseudonym: Acts238 CommentsThis web page allowed me to expand my understanding of the different types of strategies Business use to be competitive in their industry. Pseudonym: phatlex CommentsI found this website about this company that focuses on improving how a business works better with their system. Pseudonym: chango4 CommentsIt is a really intersting website to learn about the principles to maintain a competitive advantage in business. Pseudonym: asalaz51 Commentsthis site help me to identify several basic competitive strategies, and also help me to undestand how a business can use IT to confront the competitive forces faced by a business. Pseudonym: CDJ24 CommentsJust a basic run through of the development and advantages of using a virtual company. Also explains the use of third-parties to expand on the original idea of a virtual company. Pseudonym: oagonzalez90 CommentsThis article talks about why people might wait about windows specially because the IT's still working on the product but they want customers to have it that way they can experience everything and from that collect all the feedback Pseudonym: 2jayzee CommentsGives more info about the subject than some of the class powerpoint slides. Pseudonym: Draske CommentsDecent summary of how CIS is useful today as well as where it is. Pseudonym: Pitbull1 CommentsThis site focus on trend pros and cons of the business world. This article focuses on failures and successes of customer relationship management (CRM). Pseudonym: ja0911 Commentsgood definition and good information!!! Pseudonym: pollo92 Commentsthis is a good site if you want to know more about SIS and who this information helps and why it is important in general. it is somewhat out dated but from what i read and what we are being taught it hasnt changed that much Pseudonym: penny5 CommentsVery detailed, and helpful website. It provides de definition of competitive strategies and it provides examples. Pseudonym: gold46 CommentsThis article goes hand in hand with the information on the slides for this chapter. It really helped me understand competitive strategies. Pseudonym: SummerDays CommentsThis site gives you a simple outline on how to successfully enter a market. In the powerpoint it is explained the top 5 reason why most products fail when entering the market; so it is nice to know some reason how not to fail when entering the market. It is aways helpful to see both sides of something, in this case how to be successful entering a market and how not to be. Pseudonym: Reyna<3 CommentsThis article explain the definition of Competitive Advantage and also show the benefit of the competition to your target market. Pseudonym: tequilasunrise CommentsExplains in detail the types of product life cycle... interesting Pseudonym: Z06Ken CommentsI used to surf wikipedia when I had time to spare but, nowadays I dont have as much time. So anytime I have the time for wikipedia i take it such as right now in reading Value Chains. Which is an industry that performs to deliver a product or service to the marketplace. You have the Firm level and the Industry level. The FIrm level supports activities and also has primary activites in combinding virtual and physical value chains. The industry level is the actual physical value of the processes in producing goods and services, which starts with materials and ends with delivery of tyhe product. I chose this reference because it helps me understand the process and the steps in products and services for either industry related or personal related. Pseudonym: Seymour Cummings CommentsI actually rally liked this site because it gives a little insight to how companies are distinguishing themselves by using different competitive advantage techniques and becoming as successful as they are. Pseudonym: GirlAlmighty5S CommentsFirst of all MIS is the study of people, technology, organizations and the relationships among them, that is why it is important to learn about it. Workers convert the data to useful information, allowing the business to work smoothly. This article explains MIS. The system can adapt to the outside environment or it can be limited. The information can be objective, subjective, and temporary. This article also explains the organization of information which can be binary, hierarchy model, hypertext. Networking Information is also mentioned which can help to shape the network. Overall, I feel like this article needed more clarification. It was a little hard to understand it Pseudonym: Sury CommentsThis web page provides a more descriptive way the basic competitive strategies that business use to succeed Pseudonym: princessK CommentsThis website gave me a better view on competitive necessity . Also provided a little more information then the power point. Pseudonym: Helena Stroud CommentsGood site if your interested in a degree in this field Pseudonym: pooh213 CommentsEven though this document is very long and mentions a lot of the concepts we discuss in class, I focused mainly on page 5. This document shows the additional competitive strategies that was interesting to read. Pseudonym: 2jayzee CommentsShort article regarding product cycle. Pseudonym: 2jayzee CommentsUniversity of Cambridge IFM article about competitive advantage Pseudonym: Batman Commentssorta cool but not to the point. Pseudonym: geev12 CommentsGrowth Strategy is important in many businesses because it teaches you how to form capital gains. Pseudonym: El Barto CommentsA descritption of knowledge management. Pseudonym: Hannah Montana CommentsThe article touched up on some basic things someone should know before entering a global market. Pseudonym: beniquajones CommentsI really liked this website because it covered material that we went over class such as the efficiency of competitive advantage. I also liked this website because it included a video discussing competitive advantage. Pseudonym: kevinhart Commentsit was a very informative website Pseudonym: El Pantera CommentsThis site provides helpful information about been a good strategic system planner, and bad things that will harm you if you don't adapt. If someone is interested in SIS they should read this article to get a good perspective of what is needed to be good at Strategic information System Pseudonym: Acct92F CommentsThis website helped my understand the Bell Curve a lot more. Pseudonym: DJCTreyCinco CommentsIts neat getting a little more insight on the way virtual companies work Pseudonym: Yaya92481 CommentsUseful information. Pseudonym: dgrove CommentsThis article thoroughly explains how a business can build switching costs so they may have a competitive advantage. Pseudonym: Fuuse CommentsThis site explained well the meaning of diffusion of innovation and the whole Rogers bell curve theory. This page also helped me understand the five groups of adopters. Pseudonym: elwizzo15 Commentscutting costs, managing expectations, and leveraging emerging technologies. Pseudonym: SerPrime CommentsThe website easily distills approachable ways to create agile companies Pseudonym: uerka007 CommentsGreat website to give some more insight about value chain and building competitive advantage! Pseudonym: akire23 CommentsThis article is about international information systems and incorporating them into the corporate world. Pseudonym: rivermonkey0726 CommentsIt goes into detail on how you can form an intranet and what it consists of. I enjoyed. Pseudonym: mmmmm CommentsBusiness Process Reengineering typically achieves great improvements in terms of productivity, cycle times and quality. Pseudonym: Lebronjames CommentsIn this article, it expands on how febreeze failed to launch a new item. The idea was a good one, but the way the company marketed it to the public was a fail. It was supposed to look like a CD player but instead of music, a distinct scent would go off from device every 30 minutes. But Febreeze hired a singer to sign for their commercial, which caused a lot of confusion for the viewers. Therefore Febreeze failed to launch its message. Pseudonym: The Guru CommentsWithout Cisco it would be difficult for businesses to receive and send information. Pseudonym: Reginageorge CommentsThis helped understand the topic Pseudonym: Frozen2014 CommentsThe article How Bits and Bytes Work was very interesting. I liked it because it broke down all the information and made it very clear to understand. I found this article and website very useful. Pseudonym: crazy CommentsVirtual Company sounds scary. Personal data might on it that hackers may take and use. hard to prevent. Pseudonym: Jessica Commentsthe page is not that detail and It misses a lot of information Pseudonym: Perla1043! CommentsIt's just define competitive advantage in terms of helping someone progress finically Pseudonym: Saydie CommentsCost leadership is one of many business strategies, when implemented correctly it can be extremely successful for a company. However, implementation does not go without risk. In order to be considered a cost leader a business must be able to keep its costs low in order to transfer the savings to customers. Some examples include Walmart, Mc. Donald's, Ikea, and Southwest Airlines. Walmart uses cheap domestic suppliers and foreign markets to keep its costs low. Mc. Donald's is able to keep its costs down by hiring untrained employees as opposed to trained cooks. Ikea keeps its costs minimal by outsourcing to low cost countries and by making furniture assembly the customer's responsibility. Finally, Southwest Airlines passes savings to its customers by keeping their planes in the air more often while decreasing time at the terminals to offer more flights. |