TUTORIAL FOR "IMPLEMENTING AN E-BUSINESS"

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: The eBusiness Phased Development

This task requires a little imagination. Remember that you were thinking about the business in the case study.

You need to think about a mission for the business

• What are the eBusiness objectives
• What are the steps the eBusiness needs to take to get to those objectives?
• Who are their competitors and which companies (rivals or other) do you think they should admire
• What is it about their product/service and/or their approach that makes them unique and differentiated?
• What is their company ethos?

Tutorial Task 2: The eBusiness Phased Development

You need to describe the complexities of the task in converting to or expanding into an eBusiness

• What issues do they face when considering the technology you’re going to use?
• How will they ensure privacy of customer information?
• How will they cultivate new customer relationships?
• How will they measure performance in the eBusiness?
• What types of partnerships and collaborations with other businesses do they need to make and why?