Assignment: Companies today again competitive advantages by leveraging resources across their information infrastructure. A business processes and the applications a company uses for building and managing the performance of their IT services environment. A sound IT environment fosters a stable and manageable information infrastructure. Consider how information infrastructure is used to foster business success and answer the following questions:

A: What do you see as the main competitive advantage of a superior information infrastructure in today's global business environment? Identify at least 5 advantages and explain each.

B: What is the greatest hindrance to implementing an adequate information infrastructure for a small and large business entity? Provide example of each business type, paying attention to size. Sizes: small business of 509 employees or less, and a large business with employees of 5000 or more.

C: Competitive advantage can be looked at from the viewpoint of stabilizing information within an organization. What actions or activities must be undertaken by IT professionals to stabilize information within a business's information infrastructure? Please provide 3 detailed examples.

D: An efficient information infrastructure is one that is continuously improving upon business processes that flow through the company. Consider your past or current work situations: How has the company's information infrastructure helped you to better define information needed to perform work related business tasks?