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E-Commerce Strategy and Global EC
How should the Internet and EC be considered by business strategic planners? By IS strategists and by ICT planners?
Electronic commerce and internet play an important role in the formulation and implementation of the strategy that indicates that how a new or an existing company aims to conduct its business electronically. While developing strategic plan, the concerned authorities shall pay reasonable attention to out sourcing, application development and business process re-engineering. In addition to that, the ICT strategists shall also ensure that there is sufficient flow of relevant information within the organization. Moreover, the strategists shall ensure that their product or business is real time and can be easily integrated on web. (Clark, 2012)
Apart from that, the IS strategists shall keep in mind that the competition levels in e-commerce and internet have reached new unidentifiable levels. Therefore, they shall train, develop and orient the employees and shall ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills required by E-commerce. (Clark, 2012)
Describe the advantages, risks, and success factors that first movers face.
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These organizations can perform their business operations from anytime and anywhere. Even though, the implementation of e-commerce strategy and adaption of e-commerce provides the firm with competitive advantage and enables them to conduct their operations flexibly, the first movers are confronted with a risk of failure of e-commerce strategy; this is because the failure of this strategy can cause the organization to suffer great loss. The main success factors for e-commerce are; the technological equipment of the proprietor, the ability of the proprietor to use scarce resources, the ability to switch costs and the efficiency of network structures. (Turban and Lee et al., 2006)
A craftsperson operates a small business making wooden musical instruments in a small U.S. town. The business owner is considering using EC to increase the business's reach to the nation and the world. How can the business owner use EC to increase richness to make the products more attractive to consumers?
Through the use of E-commerce, the crafts person can advertise his products by posting banners on less expensive websites. In addition to that, a…
References
Clark, G. (2012). E-business Strategic Planning. Redlands: Key Custom Design. pp. 1-4. http://keycustomdesign.com/resources/articles/ecommerce,7/ebusiness-strategic-planning,10.html.
Turban, E., Lee, J., King, D. And Viehland, D. (2006). Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective. 4th ed. London: Pearson Education Inc.
Unknown. (2008). The Revolution Is Just Beginning. London: Pearson Education Inc. pp. 1-52. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/samplechapter/0131735160.pdf [Accessed: 18 Sep 2013].
Global E-Commerce Strategy implementation issues Strategy formulation and implementation are very difficult and lengthy parts of a management process. It should be known that both formulation and implementation are interdependent. In other words, the strategy making and the implantation of the strategy should be carried out in a proper way. There are many issues that arise in making strategy and implanting it. Conflicts can arise during strategy formulation and one should know how
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