“Capital One Financial Corporation,"

    “Capital One Financial Corporation,"   and answer the following questions. You will be graded on the coherence, depth, and insightfulness of your responses. 1. Is there anything unique about Capital One’s “information-based strategy" (IBS)? What is distinctive about its strategy? Provide specifics about what IBS entails at Capital One. 2. The case can be read as a case study in analytics or as a case study in “mass custom ization." Do these two things go hand in hand? 3. What features of the credit card industry make IBS especially important and attractive? What other industries share these features? 4. Consider the case of a fashion retailer like Zara or its close competitors (e.g., Tops hop, Forever 21, Mango). Do you think a strategy like that employed at Capital One could work for such an organization? Provide a detailed discussion of why or why not, and describe what such a firm would look like.