Porter's _____ help(s) companies identify general strategies, whereas his _____ help(s) to identify specific activities where companies can use the strategies for greatest impact.
  • True
  • competitive forces model, value chain model
  • Strategic Systems; Mass Customization
  • Procurement; Product and Technology Development
Cost Leadership Strategy is one strategy to gain a competitive advantage.
  • True
  • False
There are six (6) characteristics of effective Business-IT Alignment.
  • True
  • False
Two strategies that a company can use to gain a competitive advantage are:
  • Technology pressures such as information overload.
  • Customer-Orientation and Operational Effective Strategy.
  • The development of work-flow software.
  • Customer leadership.
Business environment pressures can come from which of the following:
  • Political changes.
  • quickly, increases
  • Information Overload
  • Customer leadership.
Which of the following organizational responses to various business pressures? (select all that apply)
  • Technology pressures such as information overload.
  • Organizations view IT as an engine of innovation that continually transforms the business, often creating new revenue streams.
  • Strategic Systems; Mass Customization
  • Information Overload
Which of the following is a characteristic of effective business - IT alignment?
  • Information Overload
  • Technology pressures such as information overload.
  • Organizations view IT as an engine of innovation that continually transforms the business, often creating new revenue streams.
  • Strategic Systems; Mass Customization
It is a good idea for a company to select two competitive advantage strategies.
  • True
  • False
Thomas Friedman's flatteners include which of the following:
  • Strategic Systems; Mass Customization
  • Technology pressures such as information overload.
  • The development of work-flow software.
  • Customer-Orientation and Operational Effective Strategy.
According to Porter's Value Chain Model, which of the following are considered support activities? (select all that apply)
  • Strategic Systems; Mass Customization
  • increases; decreases
  • Procurement; Product and Technology Development
  • Technology pressures such as information overload.
Palantir is an artificial intelligence application companies use to answer questions in natural language.
  • True
  • False
All of the following are strategies for competitive advantage except ___________.
  • Information Overload
  • Customer-Orientation and Operational Effective Strategy.
  • Customer leadership.
  • increases; decreases
IT tools used to gain a competitive advantage can be shared across multiple industries.
  • True
  • False
Any information system can provide a competitive advantage if it is used properly.
  • True
  • False
New technologies can produce new products very _____, which _____ the threat from substitute products.
  • quickly, increases
  • increases; decreases
  • Information Overload
  • Customer leadership.
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