Analyze important business strategies and the use of information technology by Home Depot stores to achieve a competitive advantage in the discount retail home improvement industry.
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Paper Objective The purpose of this paper is to analyze important business strategies and the use of information technology by Home Depot stores to achieve a competitive advantage in the discount retail home improvement industry. The following analyses will be categorized into four sections. Section I discusses the retail home improvement industry by clarifying the structure, the general strategies and trends, the impact of globalization and the importance of information technology within the industry. Section II caps on Home Depot, describing the company, its competitive strategies, and financial performance and its position within the retail home improvement industry. Section III discusses the success of Home Depot's integration of information technology. Scope The retail industry is the largest in the world, totaling upwards of 22 trillion dollars a year. This includes everything that is sold to a consumer. In order to better assess individual markets, the retail industry has been broken down into...


