Creating Value Through E-Commerce Business Models
As businesses strive to implement innovative web-based initiatives, they increasingly will have to pay attention to e-commerce business models. What exactly is a business model, how does it differ from a revenue model, and why is it so important? Raffi Amit and Christoph Zott answer these questions and more in a new paper called “Value Drivers of E-Commerce Business Models.” They also develop a framework … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy
Personalization.com
This site has become the most comprehensive, credible source of information available on personalization and collaborative filtering trends and information. The purpose of the site is to create an open discussion forum on what personalization is and what it means for online interaction — from basic hello and welcome back messages to content/information that is dynamically served up based on personal information gathered about the … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Christopher Locke | Source: Net Perceptions | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales
Guide to E-Commerce
Guide to E-Commerce is a resource from Catherwood Library at the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University. Geared toward a novice audience, this guide offers basic information on E-commerce in its introduction, and the main body of the guide consists of a collection of thoughtfully annotated links. Along with general sites about E-commerce from a variety of commercial and academic sources, the guide … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Sources: Catherwood Library, Cornell University. | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Reference / Search
Looking for new methods to manage an IT project? Grab a hammer
This article looks at the management approach used in two different types of projects:
An IT project for an automotive parts manufacturer and a construction project for the same automotive parts manufacturer. The author argues that there are real-world tactics from the construction side that can be applied to the management of an internal IT project and that by comparing these projects, it’s clear … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Andy Weeks | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Project Management | Industry: Information Technology
Tom Peters
E-commerce is not a technology play. It’s a relationship, partnering, communication, and organizational play, made possible by technology.
Content: Quotation | Source: ITworld.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Creating Internet Strategies for Competitive Advantage
For companies that want to approach entrepreneurial opportunities on the Internet seriously-and with a view to turning profits-a new research paper by Sendil Ethiraj, Isin Guler and Harbir Singh offers useful insights. The researchers provide a conceptual framework to analyze Internet strategies, and they also look at business models and examine their components. In addition, Ethiraj, Guler and Singh explore what makes some business models … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Harbir Singh, Isin Guler, Sendil Ethiraj | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy
The Wheres of Electronic Procurement
The whys of electronic procurement are obvious. But the wheres of electronic procurement may not be quite so obvious, because E-procurement needs to be thought about in a way that is different from most other applications. For most applications, while there may be inputs coming from outside the company or data sent to the outside, the core of the application – the way we think … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
B2B Market Predictions
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. The Center is a network of teaching and research faculty from Harvard Law School and elsewhere — as well as students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace. The Center investigates … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal
From Bricks to Clicks: The Four Stages of E-volution
While most U.S. companies have passed through their digital infancy, time is running out for critical decisions on mission, leadership, processes, structure, and talent.
Content: Article | Authors: Dianna Sasina, Gary L. Neilson, Gil Irwin, Jill Albrinck | Source: strategy+business | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
The Changing Face Of IT
As IT becomes even more integral to success, companies are rethinking how the organization looks, functions, and interacts with the rest of the business.
Content: Article | Author: Diane Rezendes Khirallah | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior | Industry: Information Technology
The Internet Economy Indicators
This UT/Cisco project is an excellent source for Internet stats. The report of the same name breaks down into 4 layers. The first layer looks at Internet infrastructure (telecom companies, Internet carriers, and ISPs). The second layer, the Internet Applications Infrastructure Indicator, studies Internet software products and services. Layer three, the Internet Intermediary Indicator, includes businesses conducting transactions on the Web, and the final … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: internetindicators.comindex.html | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business
The Internet’s True Benefit
Michael Hammer (of re-engineering fame) argues that the Net’s real payoff is in its enabling of business collaboration.
Content: Article | Author: Michael Hammer | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
eBusinessForum.com – Global Business Intelligence for the Digital Age
This excellent new website from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) provides insight and analysis to help senior executives build successful strategies for the global digital economy. Especially useful is the doing ebusiness in… section. Things you will find include: today’s news analysis, market profile (taxation, key issues, law & regulations, infrastructure, ecommerce), an eBusiness readiness ranking (out of 60 countries profiled), and a country … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: The Economist | Subjects: International, IT / Technology / E-Business
A Definition of Data Warehousing
There is a great deal of confusion over the meaning of data warehousing. This article gives definitions and a high-level overview of the field and also provides the bios of its two pioneers.
Content: Article | Author: M. Reed | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
The Making of E-Commerce: 10 Key Moments
The first great event in the history of e-commerce wasn’t the invention of Netscape or the first e-Christmas. According to an E-Commerce Times roundup of the top 10 e-commerce milestones,
it was the 1984 adoption of the ASC X12 standard for electronic data interchange. That much-overlooked event paved the way for better-known milestones — Netscape’s arrival is event No. 2,
and the 1998 holiday shopping … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Jon Weisman | Source: E-Commerce Times | Subjects: History, IT / Technology / E-Business