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Assignment:

1. Select a company with an effective e-commerce strategy. (Alternatively, if you have entrepreneurial aspirations, use your own entrepreneurial business model as the context for analysis). This company could either be your own organization or another organization of your choice.
2. Using the Porter five forces model, describe some of the firm's current dynamics, which are creating either strategic opportunities or strategic threats to existing business models.
3. Pay particular attention to the industry dynamics, i.e., how the industry changes in terms of the five forces.
4. Use web research to provide specific examples and support your argumentation.
5. this is an exercise in thinking about the concept of strategic partnerships. If you were advising the U.S. Postal Service on seeking out strategic partners to help them augment their e-commerce strategies and overall value proposition, which strategic partners would you choose and why?
6. Utilize the Business Model Canvas to analyze the U.S. Postal Service.
7. What role would the strategic partner play in the overall value proposition of the Postal Service?
8. What value would you hope to be generated from this collaboration?
9. How might the Postal Service effectively negotiate to convince such strategic partners to ally with them in an overall competitive initiative?
10. How might a "win-win" be created for both companies?
11. Also, view the TED Video on Open Source Economics to incorporate the notion of Open Source Innovation as a form of strategic partnership.