For courses in e-Commerce and
Online Business.
This step-by-step
e-commerce/online business guide is designed to help business decision makers get up to
Internet-speed quickly and easily and involved in building e-commerce/ebusiness strategies
and solutions. It addresses the massive changes now taking place in the course of
e-commerce, and lays out the new rules of engagement. It gives them an "instant
advantage" by providing proven, real-world approaches to transforming businesses
for success in the online community.
Strategies used by
start-up online companies around the world to established Fortune 1000 companies-To
run lean, mean, operating agile enterprises.
A full range of markets
and businesses-Addresses small to medium-size markets as well as large corporations.
The explosive growth of
e-business.
Case studies-Lets
students hear directly from CEOs and others who talk about the lessons they have learned
in leading their respective companies in the new online economy.
I. TURNING BUSINESS INSIDE
OUT: DISRUPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
1. The Internet,
Convergence, and a New Inflection Point.
2. Disruptive Changes and New Opportunities.
3. An Online Economy: New Rules, Players and Growth Areas.
II. STRATEGIES FOR INSTANT
ADVANTAGE IN THE ONLINE ECONOMY.
4. Think Ahead - Identify
Trends, Adapt Quickly, Seize Opportunities.
5. "Be" Your Customer-Think Like Them, Listen to Them, Act on Their Behalf.
6. Reinvent Your Enterprise ... Not Refine It.
7. Integrate Business and IT Strategies & Create an Online IT Enterprise Blueprint.
III. TACTICS FOR GAINING
INSTANT ADVANTAGE.
8. E-Solutions that Work.
9. Steps to Transforming an Enterprise: Act Quickly, Engage Managers, Use New Rules to
Measure Success.
IV. INTERNET PIONEERS.
10. Online Stories of New
and Established Enterprise Players.
11. New Players Lead the Online Revolution.
12. Old Players Concede Nothing and Lead on Their Own Terms.
V. TECHNOLOGY, STANDARDS,
AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
Appendices.
Glossary.
Index.