Using the principles and models from your textbook readings and the additional study materials provided by your instructor, analyze either the Zara or Netflix cases in terms of how information systems are used to enable and support organizational strategy. Pay particular attention to how the systems are used to influence competitive forces in pursuit of organizational strategy.

Create a posting analyzing this effort using what we’ve learned about using systems for competitive advantage. Be sure to support your assertions with examples and/or references from the literature.

As a minimum (85%), your posting should include:

What was the strategy or strategies being supported by the system(s)?

How were information systems and technology used to support the strategy? Were the models described by McFarlan employed?

Was the company pursuing an early adopter or fast follower approach?

How were the systems/strategy used to influence competitive forces (which forces were impacted and how, which forces that were not)?

Assess whether or not the organization could have pursued that strategy without the use of information systems.

Was the organization trying to enter a market, or defend it’s position in a market?

Citations for resources used in your answer (Citations should be in APA format)

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Summary:

The central question at the heart of Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre is focused on identity: what capacity did peasants like Bertrande and Martin have to live life according to their sense of self? Davis suggests that each of the three main figures (Arnaud, Bertrande and Martin) had an idea of the kind of life they’d like to live and then used what was available to make that happen. They sought opportunity, took advantage of chance, and deceived those around them. Robert Finlay suggests, in argument with Davis, that such calculation should not be attributed to Bertrande. That as a woman alive in the late Middle Ages, Bertrande would not have though about questions of identity as Davis suggests.

In a short essay (2-3 pages) compare and contrast the arguments that Davis and Finlay make about Bertrande’s involvement in the deception. What does Davis argue about Betrande’s role? How does Finlay refute that? What’s Davis’s response to the refutation? Finally, using evidence from the book and articles, make an argument about your position.

In a Microsoft Word document, complete the following.

In this assignment, you will be writing an essay explaining how unlimited desires and limited resources combine to create the need for economic analysis.

Two of the most fundamental concepts in microeconomics are the assumptions that people have unlimited wants, and that resources to satisfy those wants are limited. Please write an essay that answers the following questions:

1. What does it mean for individuals to have unlimited wants?
2. Why can’t individuals have everything they want?
3. How do unlimited wants and limited resources lead to individual choice in microeconomics?

A good essay would have at least 100 words for each part of this assignment (at least 300 words total). In addition, it should be written well using correct grammar. Please use APA formatting – if applicable.

For Unit III of your art gallery presentation, you will be adding descriptions of the visual elements you observe in the artworks you placed in your art gallery. The purpose of this unit assignment is to demonstrate that you can apply what you learned about visual elements to your gallery artworks.

• Place one Visual Elements slide directly after the artwork it describes.
• Make sure you describe all of the visual elements using complete sentences. Questions to consider are included below:
  • Line: Describe what kind of lines are in the artwork (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, thick, thin, etc.). What do the lines do? Do they lead your eye to something?
  • Shape: Describe what kind of shapes are in the artwork and where they appear. Are there circular shapes in clouds, rectangular shapes in buildings?
  • Light: Where is the light coming from? What is it highlighting?
  • Color: What colors are used? Are the colors bright, tints, muted? Are they different shades of one hue?
  • Texture: Is there a pattern on some area in the artwork? Is there a paint texture such as impasto?
  • Mass: Is the artwork heavier in one area?
  • Time: Is there anything in the artwork that gives the sense of time? Is it a daytime or nighttime scene?
  • Motion: Is motion depicted? Are people walking, running, floating, or climbing toward something?
• You must use at least your textbook as an outside source. Be sure to follow APA format for all sources used, including the textbook. When adding your own opinion or observation, you will not need a citation as it is an original thought.
• Please submit your full presentation thus far, which should include the previous updated segments and the segment for this unit.
• This segment must include a minimum of five PowerPoint slides.
• I can send my power point to whomever takes this on.