Amazon.com, as an e-commerce website has emerged as a leader in the e-business world. Originally, the company began as a website that sold books at discount prices, now Amazon.com has evolved into a marketplace for the world. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO, has changed the business model of the company many times. He is focused on expanding the selection of goods and services offered on the website, in an attempt to please customers. However, he is having trouble managing the priorities of his gigantic
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trading and auctions, for example, on-line stock trading markets, on-line auction for computers and other goods. B2C e-commerce refers to the emerging commerce model where businesses /companies and consumers interact electronically or digitally in some way. One of the best examples of B2C e-commerce is Amazon.com, an online bookstore that launched its site in 1995. In a B2C e-commerce the focus is more about enticing prospects and converting them into customers, retaining them and share value created
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Week 3 Case 2 - The Failure of Boo.com 1. Was Boo.com doomed by its faulty strategy or its poor implementation? Boo.com was doomed by both poor implementation and strategy. Strategy: ”Boo.com first announced that it would launch by the end of May 1999; however, due to software problems, the Web site actually launched in November 1999. The company failed to meet its sales targets by January of 2000” (Cullen J. &., 2008). By the co-founder Ernst Malmsten’s own admission “We have been too visionary”
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Analysis of the Online Business in Supply Chain Management and Marketing Strategy by © Renjie Wu __________________ 2011 Student Number: WU_11340881 Tutor: Dr Luca Lo Sicco Table of Content |Chapters |Pages | |Abstract |3 | |I. Introduction
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Joshua Tollison Phase 4 Individual Project MGM310-1204B-01 Bari Courts 23 December 2012 If I were to start an e-business the main thing I would focus on would be functionality of the site and ease to make customers feel comfortable and confident about shopping with my storefront. By this I mean designing a site that gives customers several options for the products they are shopping for; along with that my customers would have access to multiple pictures of every product available, and
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ECS8_C03.qxd 10/15/07 14:23 Page 93 The Strategic Position 3 Strategic Capability LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter you should be able to: ➔ Distinguish elements of strategic capability in organisations: resources, competences, core competences and dynamic capabilities. ➔ Recognise the role of continual improvement in cost efficiency as a strategic ➔ Analyse how strategic capabilities might provide sustainable competitive advantage on the basis of their value
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Assignment 1 – ECOM 320 1. What are the main functionalities and features included in an e-commerce server? E-commerce servers some or all of the following system functionalities: * Digital Catalog – used to display goods * Product Database – used to provide product information * Customer on-site tracking – used to personalize and/or customize products and to identify common customer paths and appropriate responses * On-site blog; used to engage customers in conversation and community
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Summarize: Seminar 1: Ebay + Intermediate (Là trung gian giữa người bán và người mua) + Không chịu trách nhiệm stock hàng hóa, không chịu trách nhiệm guarantee for quality & quantity + Rating system to check seller’s reputation + Using paypal to guarantee the payment (for sellers) + Suggestion of Ebay for the customers: “Buy first, sell later”. The customer should buy first to grant experience, knowlaged before become the seller. Business Model of E-Commerce Seminar 2:
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examining the dot-com successes, it is equally important to study reasons for the failures. Examining the mistakes made by the dot-coms can provide insight into the evolution of e-commerce as a means of conducting business and furthermore help to form the basis on which new strategies can be developed for the future e-commerce environment. BACKGROUND In the 1990s, the commercialization of the Internet started a revolution in the way business is conducted. In particular, the growth of the World Wide
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