E-COMMERCE LESSON 2: BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF E-COMMERCE Topic: • Introduction Everything has its pros and cons‚ same is with E Commerce‚ lets have a look. • Categories of E commerce Benefits and Limitations • Benefits and limitations of E Commerce The Benefits of EC Few innovations in human history encompass as many potential benefits as EC does. The global nature of the technology‚ low cost‚ opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people (projected within 10
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Scant comprehensive literature exists about e-commerce risks. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the main risks associated with e-commerce concern hackers‚ viruses‚ and interception of credit card numbers travelling over telecommunication lines. Technological advances can mitigate many perceived risks and recent surveys indicate greater concern over more mundane issues such as running out of stock and high shipping costs. We have categorized risks in three primary areas: information risks‚ technology
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WHAT IS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE? The advance and growth in IT & internet have enabled revolutionary vast changes in the way businesses and people trade. Trading in its simplest definition is all about communication. The spread of computers worldwide and the usage of information technology have played a major role in facilitating and enhancing the communication between traders therefore gave the ignition for E-commerce to come to light. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has many definitions found
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E-Commerce Electronic commerce‚ commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce‚ is a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce‚ electronic funds transfer‚ supply chain management‚ Internet marketing‚ online transaction processing‚ electronic data interchange (EDI)‚inventory management systems‚ and automated data collection systems
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five competitive forces that shape strategy Introduction The five competitve forces that shape strategy also know as Porter’s five forces was first pubilshed in 1979 in the Harvard Business Review by a young associate professor at the Harvard Business School‚ Michael E. Porter. This article started a revolution in the strategy field and has since than shaped a generation of academic research and business practise. Throughout the last thirty years Porter’s Five Forces Analysis has been the most
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Contents Introduction 2 Wrycza et al. ’s Research (2007) 3 Rao et al. ’s research (2003) 5 Prananto et al. ’s research (2004) 7 Alonso Mendo and Fitzgerald ’s research (2005) 9 The usefulness of using E-Commerce Maturity Model (ECMM) 11 Conclusion 14 Reference 14 Introduction In today ’s economy‚ organisations try to gain strategic and operational advantages over other competitors in their industry because of the rapid advance of technology and globalisation. Companies
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all around the world. It is leading brand in some areas and still growing day by day. Vision Voice goes mobile………….if it can go mobile…………………….it will. Mission Connecting people. SWOT analysis of Nokia SWOT analysis is the tool which helps the organization to understand where it stands. The SWOT analysis of Nokia make it understand that where Nokia stand in the market. Strengths Nokia has the strong brand name which is its one of the most important strength because it is then favorable for
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Industry Analysis Barriers to Entry. Processes involved in the manufacture of soft drinks are standard in the industry; thus‚ knowledge needed to begin production is not complex and can easily be acquired. In addition‚ inputs used in the manufacture are commodity items (e.g. sugar‚ syrup‚ and fruit juices). Though the latter factors increase the susceptibility of companies to face new entrants‚ still‚ threats of entry by potential competitors are at a low degree. This is due to the fact that capital
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Porter’s Five Forces Porter’s Five Forces is a framework for business strategy development and industry analysis formed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979. Since then Porter’s Five Forces has become an important tool for analyzing an organizations industry structure in strategic processes. Porter’s Five Forces draws upon Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. We can
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a methodology called the Porter’s Five Forces Analysis. In his book Competitive Strategy‚ Harvard professor Michael Porter describes five forces affecting the profitability of companies. These are the five forces he noted: 1. Intensity of rivalry amongst existing competitors 2. Threat of entry by new competitors 3. Pressure from substitute products 4. Bargaining power of buyers (customers) 5. Bargaining power of suppliers These five forces‚ taken together‚ give us
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