Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Competitive disadvantage:
Competitive disadvantage occurs when a company lacks to achieve its competitive profit and fails to maintain the highly responsive services which are necessary for today’s market place.
- IT enabled organizations will quickly absorb the emerging technologies not to attain profit or to maintain competitive advantage, but to avoid the loss incurred in the market by the shareholders...
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