Today's IT Enables New Growth Strategies in a Number of Ways

To conduct global business with local reach rather than local presence?
To access needed resources globally (capital, expertise, smart labor, distribution channels)?
To create new barriers to entry as old ones are dissolving?
To know each customer as an individual?
To make instantaneous marketing and selling decisions on the fly?
To find and use knowledge and insight that is being created elsewhere?

What's it worth to us ...