Managing Information

 (need in 1 hour 1 paragraph)

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.

This week you have learned about how information has a strategic importance in creating a first-mover and competitive advantage. To demonstrate the strategic importance of information, this week’s discussion forum will involve researching an article using one of the following sources:

• USA Today (www.usatoday.com)
• Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)
• New Your Times (www.nytimes.com)
• Forbes (www.forbes.com)
• Bloomberg Business Week (www.bloomberg.com)
• Inc. Magazine (www.inc.com)
• Economist (www.economist.com)
• Entrepreneur (www.entrepreneur.com)
• Harvard Business Review- (www.hbr.org)

Your task is to choose a current article (published in last 60 days) from one of the above-listed sources that relate to how managers can utilize information technology as a strategic means to gain a competitive advantage.

• What role does Information Technology play to successfully compete in the marketplace?
• What key points in the article support your statements?

Copy and paste the URL address of the article so it can be easily shared with your classmates.