Impact of Information Systems on Competitive Advantage

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How does IS impact on their positioning for competitive advantage?
The world is in such a position that there is no surety of job market and nobody really has
idea of how the job market would represent to the general people in the year 2050 (Harari, 2018).
Everything is due to the fact that Artificial Intelligent has glued into the market and it has
revolutionized technology in such a way that computers are getting much smarter and much
faster than human beings. All the Artificial Intelligent implementation in the past few decades
have resulted a huge breakthrough in the world of science consisting of the life of people in
general as well as the social lives of people. DonahaueFavret Contractors, one of the leading
commercial contractors based in Louisiana, are now keen on implementing IoT in the business
processes. These are somewhat being extremely helpful to the organizations. However, they do
not understand that implementing Internet of Things or IoT and devices associated with them is
not designed to maintain security as a priority (Fichman, Dos Santos & Zheng, 2014). There has
been several researches conducted by different organization and it has been found that 80 per
cent of the organization implementing IoT does not possess secured systems for the applications
which may form a major reason for the security vulnerabilities that this kind of technology
possesses. Despite these flaws the organization of DonahaueFavret Contractors has been
planning on doubling the implementation of Internet of Things or IoT and Artificial Intelligent
within the business process. This has made it very difficult for the people in the organizational
environment to be absolutely sure about their own jobs in the near future. Often due to the
introduction of different advanced technologies in the business process, the concerned company
experiences downfall. Otherwise, it was expected that the company would exponentially rise in
profit as per the new business process. Therefore, it can be said that although Artificial
Intelligent in Internet of Things or IoT implementation has become a huge success it is not a