It is important to make it difficult for competitors to duplicate your firm's strategically important resources or capabilities through various legal means including trademarks, patents, and copyrights. Those legal approaches are necessary conditions but not sufficient to protect a firm's strategic resources from being copied by smart competitors. Instead, strategic approaches called "isolating mechanism" will extend the time period of maintaining a firm's competitive advantage. The mechanism is well explained in Chapter $4$ of your textbook. Which of the following is NOT the business case that illustrate the isolating mechanism?

Question $8$Answer

a$.$

Tesla has a vast amount of driving data collected over more than a decade in a variety of locations, weather conditions, and situations.

b$.$

Panera Bread meets monthly with its food suppliers to communicate and find the best delivery plan.

c$.$

Mobileye, the company for the second case analysis write up$,$ offers both a software platforms and hardware automotive chips.

d$.$

All of them demonstrate isolating mechanism.