The capacity to distinguish and communicate them will improve your organization's focus, establish a framework for competing agilely, and position your company to thrive despite industry discontinuities. They choose an effective business model and execute it superbly. They relentlessly renew their distinctiveness as competitors threaten. The latter part of the paper discusses the role of business, governments, regulation and ideology in the development of I-Commerce and makes some cautious speculations regarding its future. In the end, an e-business is just another business.
Online businesses are whole different animals.
It pays to be adaptable. Business Demands Continual Business Model Reevaluation by David Caruso AMR Research Executive View, July 2000 Sustainable competitive advantage is a mirage. The mantra that corporations must adapt to survive in the new economy is that of renewable competitive advantage. The successful firms of the very near future will develop organizations with the mindset, the technology, and the ability to turn new visions into reality in less than six months. Look especially at the Strategic IT section.