Exam 2: Strategic Uses of Information Systems

Why is JetBlue considered to have gained a late mover advantage?

In an environment where most information technology is available to all,___________ that are originally developed to create a strategic advantage quickly become an expected standard business practice.

___________provide customers with cheaper combined service and the convenience of one-stop shopping.

___________use physical characteristics of people,such as fingerprints and retina scans,for authentication and access to physical places and online information systems.

JetBlue obtained the strategic advantage of the___________ by implementing the latest available technologies of fast databases,VoIP,and a slick website.

A firm gains bargaining power with a supplier when the firm has many competitors.

For an information system to be an strategic information,one of the conditions is that the information system must serve an organizational goal rather than simply provide information.

___________combine ideas for making potentially winning business decisions and ideas for harnessing information technology to implement the decisions.

The reengineering process makes it possible to determine how much each change contributed to the organization's improved position.

Which of the following is considered a strategic advantage of the first-mover?

A barrier to potential new market entrants is the high expense of entering the particular market.

Brand-name success is a perfect example of___________ .

A company achieves___________ by using strategy to maximize its strengths,resulting in a competitive advantage.

The most important metric in the airline industry is___________ ,which is how much it costs to fly a passenger one mile of the journey.

An alliance can be created to enable customers to use the same technology for purchases from different companies.

Why would you consider competitive advantage as a moving target?