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DOING E-BUSINESS
e Business
Issue
By Bjørn Borg Kjølseth,
National Manager – eMarket Services
Innovation Norway
www.emarketservices.com
August 2005
E-business
“In general, e-business is used in the broadest sense. It includes buying and selling on-line, but also other aspects of on-line business activity, such as purchasing, tracking inventory, managing production and handling logistics, customer support services, supply chain management and collaborative engineering.”
Introduction
“E-business is about changing the way things are done with the business, and between business and customers and suppliers.”i
Companies must decide how and when to implement e-business. The choice should be based on an overall assessment that includes an evaluation of costs and benefits and well-defined goals that are dependent on whether the decision was based on business or strategic criteria.
This section will present the strategic issue of using e-business in the following chapters:
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Are you doing e-business already?
The strategic planning process
Value drivers
Strategic or business decision
Industry readiness
Company readiness
Are you doing e-business already
There are a high and growing number of companies that use computers in their daily business. In Europe 93% of all employees from 7 sectors surveyed work in companies that use computers and 87% in companies with Internet access. It is therefore not surprising that e-business is an importan ...