Ebusiness Designs (1)

e-Business Design and Implementation

E-BUSINESS DESIGN 1.Challenges confronting today’s manager is in the creation, execution, and ongoing evolution of a successful e-business design 2. 3.E-business can be a blessing or a curse. Depending on your perspective 4. 5.E-business success depends on how well company execs make decisions

Introduction 

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These are first-level strategic weapons in the new digital economy.

Questions to be posed before e-business 1.What kind of business design can make your customer’s shopping and service experience unique and memorable 2. 3. 4.What capabilities and competencies create rich customer experience

1.When crafting e-business direction, mgmt must pay careful attention to three interlocking layers: 2. 3. vE-business design vE-business application infrastructure vE-business infrastructure

Examples of E-business design

Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, once said, “When the rate of change in the marketplace exceeds the rate of change in the organization, the end is in sight”

A well built e-business infrastructure 

Is a balance of structure and flexibility

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Harnesses, safeguards, manages and permits use of information in ways that are fast, safe and simple.

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Redefine the value for their customers

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Build powerful e-business designs that outperform the competition

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Understand customer priorities and consistently raise customer expectations to new heights

E-business design

A well built e-business infrastructure qis a balance of structure and flexibility

q q qHarness, safeguards, manages, and permits use of information in ways that are fast, safe, and simple

q q qComprises the technology, utilities (tools), and services needed to enable an uninterrupted flow of commerce 

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1. How to get a business sponsor 2. Where your e-business opportunities are 3. Where to find users 4. How to get the help you need 5. What your training options are 6. What J2EE application services are 7. How WDS tools can build applications 8. How to size your project challenges and options to your resources 9. How to match your project requirements to your skills 10. How to set low risk strategies 11. Where to go for more information

Challenges can include the following: 

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1. Planning a Web app for new users and use cases 2. Creating Web apps that are intuitive; easy to use, simple to learn 3. Creating Web apps that are easy to maintain and deploy 4. Dealing with complex Web application configuration and tuning 5. Reusing and integrating existing iSeries database and applications 6. Dealing with distributed development & deployment issues 7. Working with rapid development schedules for Web apps 8. Working with Limited funds for new Web apps 9. Not knowing what the payback is for Web apps 10. Understanding the user learning curve for Web applications 11. Learning new skills for engineering, architecture, design, build, test, deploy 12. Dealing with rapid changes in e-business