Reference no: EM131271469
Background
In the late 1990s, a wide assortment of business experts predicted that e-business was completely changing the nature of business transactions. This was reflected in the astronomical prices paid for the stocks of dot-com companies that were just beginning operations and had not achieved profits.
By the end of 2000, it became clear that the fundamental nature of business had not really changed. Dot-com companies engaged in electronic commerce saw their stock prices plummet to near zero and many went out of business. A fundamental law of business still held: if a business wants to stay in business, it needs to generate profit.
By the 2010s, e-business had become a standard mechanism for buying and selling goods and services. Many of the early kicks had been worked out, but shopping online still offered buyers a different experience than shopping in a traditional store.
Written Assignment
Critique e-business operations from each of the following four perspectives:
1. From the perspective of making on-line payments (e.g., What problems are often encountered by both customers and vendors when making payments electronically for goods and services?)
2. From the perspective of customer satisfaction in dealing with an e-business site (e.g., dPurchasing goods through the Web can be frustrating to customers. Why?)
3. From the perspective of supply chain management (e.g., Many B2B transactions are oriented toward ordering supplies. In the process of doing this, a number of predictable problems can arise. What are they?)
4. From the perspective of advertising products/and services in the electronic marketplace (e.g., In the electronic marketplace, it is easy for your product/service to get lost among the millions of products and services being offered.)
Your paper should not exceed five (5) pages, single-spaced using one-inch margins and a 12-point font. Carefully and completely cite your references.
Why is vision statement with ideal characteristics
: Why is a vision statement with ideal characteristics, rather than ideal interventions allow for more flexibility in how the vision will be accomplished? Develop two vision statements, one using ideal characteristics and one using ideal interventions,..
|
Identify areas you have identified as being an hr challenge
: Identify some of the areas you have identified as being an HR challenge to the company. Recommendations need not be specifically submitted in this outline but include a heading for the potential problem areas.
|
Constant-returns to scale
: Country A has twice as many workers as Country B. Country A also has twice as much physical capital, twice as much human capital, and access to twice as many natural resources as Country B. Assuming constant-returns to scale, which of the followin..
|
Principles associated with open-market capitalism
: Compare the contrast the world's political and economic systems and their effects on globalization. Or, pick three of the underlying principles associated with open-market capitalism and describe their interrelationship.
|
What problems are often encountered by customers
: From the perspective of making on-line payments (e.g., What problems are often encountered by both customers and vendors when making payments electronically for goods and services?)
|
Discusses the possible role of encryption
: Write a 5-6-page research paper that discusses the possible role of encryption in preventing the breach described in the scenario. You may take either a pro or con position.
|
Calculate a trend line
: a) Calculate a trend line, and forecast sales for 2013. How confident are you on this forecast. b) Use exponential smoothing factor w = 0.7. What is your 2013 forecast. How confident are you of this forecast
|
Familiar with the various normative theories of ethics
: Now that you have become familiar with the various normative theories of ethics, for this assignment, you will consider your own business ethics experience/s. We have all faced ethical questions or dilemmas in the workplace, and people use different ..
|
Discuss the primary costs and benefits of globalization
: Discuss the primary costs and benefits of globalization. What does 'globalization' mean to developed nations? To undeveloped nations? How do the concepts of ethnocentrism. polycentricism and geocentricism relate to globalization?
|