When You Have Been Successful in Generating Competitive Advantage with an IT-Dependent

Multiple Choice

When you have been successful in generating competitive advantage with an IT-dependent strategic initiative what must you, as a manager, do in order to try and maintain such advantage?

A) Plan to continuously remain ahead of competition by looking to reinvigorate and reinforce the barriers to erosion associated with your initiative
B) Consider if it is possible for your firm to sustain the competitive advantage as a binary condition and invest only when it is possible to sustain
C) Invest in proprietary IT so that nobody can imitate
D) All of the above
E) Only A and B