TUTORIAL FOR " What does it mean to be doing business electronically? "

Tutorial Tasks

Read these questions before the tutorial and write some thoughts down. You'll need to get together with your team that you're going to complete the assignment with.

We'll work through these questions during the tutorial as a group and put the best answers together.

Tutorial Task 1: electronic business Basics

Have a think about how you would deal with these issues?

• What's moving people to do their business online - what are the business and personal drivers?
• Why would someone work with a particular electronic business?
• When is an electronic business site a good site?
• What makes a bricks-and-mortar business need to consider an electronic business approach?
• How do purchasers benefit from a company with an electronic business offering?
• What is it about the Internet that makes electronic business a realistic option?
• Why do you suppose some electronic business approaches fail?
• Why is it risky to be a consumer online? Why is it risky to be an electronic business?
• How are small businesses affected differently compared to big businesses?