The document discusses key topics relating to managing information systems in business, including:
1) The competitive environment of business and factors that influence competition like partnering, bargaining power, barriers to entry, and threats of substitutes.
2) How information goods have properties that are expensive to produce but cheap to reproduce, and how technology lock-in, switching costs, and network externalities impact information goods.
3) How information systems can enable a company's competitive strategy and support activities in the value chain.