...Case Study of E-Business: Hal’s Woodworking 李亚男1120690012 2016/6/27 This is my opinion with SWOT analysis after I read the case of Hal’s Woodworking. First of all, SWOT analysis is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—and is a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project or business venture. * Strengths: characteristics of the business or project that give it an advantage over others * Weaknesses: characteristics that place the business or project at a disadvantage relative to others * Opportunities: elements that the business or project could exploit to its advantage * Threats: elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the business or project Here’s what I have studied and analyze on Hal’s case. Let me introduce the SWOT analysis in my own opinion by this Figure followed. STRENGTHS•easy transaction•widen area of coverage•good accessibility of products•improve technological skills•quality processes and procedures•profitable•established strong reputation | | WEAKNESSES•maintenance, installation and configuration cost.•competitors have superior access to distribution channels•no national brand reputation•no longer stocks | | OPPORTUNITIES•partnerships and advertisements•Expansion of services and features•increase numbers of costumers•flexibility•partner with Web sites of other local and national business and organizations | | THREATS•hackers and persons who have...
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...1. They benefited from this network because Amazon for one has a good reputation with not only what they sell but with their shipping and deliveries. Many people will already be shopping through Amazon and will come across products from these networked businesses. Because Toys' R Us was struggling with making good time during the holiday season which affected their sales, going through Amazon made sure that their toys were delivered on time while also giving profit. This was good for Amazon as well because this gave another set of items that could be sold through their site expanding their business even further. At the same time this also gave Amazon money for doing this for Toys' R Us. This way I believe was another form of advertising for Toys' R US, a way of expanding through Amazon. For other toy retailers this gave the option to not only buy from Toys R Us but also from Amazon at possibly a lower price. Amazon saw this deal as a way to expand through partnering with Toys R Us instead of having to sell them it all by themselves. 2. Advantages of signing with Toys R US was that it would give a mutual benefit of profit and reputation to both parties. That having Toys from such a popular store would be good for the company. It also helped give them more merchandise without having to do all the work themselves. The profit that Amazon would make working with Toys R Us was a substantial amount of money. Disadvantages would be having to keep a promise not to sell any other...
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...semester from a disability adviser at Student Support Services. Authors Dr Chris Manning Dr Marta Indulska Dr Dongming Xu Updated by Dr Paul O’Brien Produced by the Teaching and Educational Development Institute, The University of Queensland www.tedi.uq.edu.au Copyright materials contained herein have been reproduced under the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968, as amended, or with the permission of the copyright owner. This material may not be reproduced in any manner whatsoever except for the purposes of individual study. University Provider Number 00025B © The University of Queensland contents Contents Module 1 Introduction to electronic commerce Objectives Basic elements of electronic commerce (EC) 1 1 3 Differences between electronic commerce and traditional commerce 5 New ways of doing business with electronic commerce History of electronic commerce (EC) Planning an e-commerce project Legal, ethical and international issues Case study guidelines 6 8 10 10 11 Module 2 Business decision-making and planning for electronic commerce 17 Objectives Planning an e-commerce project Economic models Competitive advantage and electronic marketplaces Transaction cost economics 17 18 29 30 34 Module 3 Technologies for electronic commerce Objectives The Internet and electronic commerce The general structure of the Internet Internet protocols 37 37 38 39 40 Internet services Intranets and extranets Internet connection options The World Wide Web 43 45...
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...STARTING OUT WITH Python ® Second Edition This page intentionally left blank STARTING OUT WITH Python ® Second Edition Tony Gaddis Haywood Community College Addison-Wesley Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Vice President and Editorial Director, ECS: Editor-in-Chief: Editorial Assistant: Vice President, Marketing: Marketing Manager: Marketing Coordinator: Vice President, Production: Managing Editor: Production Project Manager: Manufacturing Buyer: Art Director: Cover Designer: Cover Image: Media Editor: Project Management: Composition and Illustration: Printer/Binder: Cover Printer: Marcia Horton Michael Hirsch Stephanie Sellinger Patrice Jones Yezan Alayan Kathryn Ferranti Vince O’Brien Jeff Holcomb Kayla Smith-Tarbox Lisa McDowell Linda Knowles Joyce Cosentino Wells/JWells Design © Digital Vision Dan Sandin/Wanda Rockwell Sherill Redd, Aptara®, Inc. Aptara®, Inc. Edwards Brothers LeHigh-Phoenix Color/Hagerstown Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, appear on the Credits page in the endmatter of this textbook. Copyright © 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication...
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