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Monday, 18 April 2011

 Week Four - eBusiness


ItemWeek Four Questions - eBusiness
Chapter 3 Questions
  1.      Why has the web grown so dramatically?
  2.      What is Web 2.0, how does it differ from 1.0?
3.      How could a web 2.0 technology be used in business?
4.  What is eBusiness, how does it differ from eCommerce?
5. What is pure and partial eCommerce
6.  List and describe the various eBusiness models?
7. List and describe the major B2B models?
8. Outline 2 opportunities and 2 challenges faced by companies doing business online?

question 1
The world web has grown so dramatic because of the growth and the efficiency of the internet and the affordable computers around the world.

web 2.0
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web 1.0


web 2.0 in business

web 2.0 can be used in many things for business process in marketing advertising and in getting online feedback and orders . most business like E bay depends on web 2.0

question 4 e-business and e- commerce
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pure and partial e commerce
 pure e commerce is when the whole transaction is done on the internet for example buying software codes online.
partial e commerce is when the transaction is done half online and half physically. for example buying on e bay .

partial commerce



Pure E commerce




E business model.


online banking model

ordering online





Weekly Questions - Strategic Decsion Making
Chapter Two Questions
1. Define TPS & DSS, and explain how an organisation can use these systems to make decisions and gain competitive advantages
2. Describe the three quantitative models typically used by decision support systems.
3. Describe a business processes and their importance to an organisation.
4. Compare business process improvement and business process re-engineering.
5. Describe the importance of business process modelling (or mapping) and business
Process models.

Question 1
 Transaction processing system (TPS) contains all the information within a single daily processes or work unit. Its purpose is to provide support systems for daily operational task. For example using the Atm machine

 Example of TPS
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Decision support system (Dss) supports decision making in more complex context such as predicting sales budgets or estimating sales budgets.
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Question 2
Three quantitative method for decision making support systems are
Sensitivity analysis: which studies the impact on what part of the model on the other part of the model?
What if analysis: which studies the impacts of change in assumption of a solution
Goal seeking analysis; which studies the inputs necessary to achieve a goal
Question 3
Business process systemhttp://workflow-process.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/business-process-examples.jpg
A business process system is a standardized set of activities that accomplishes a specific task such as customer check out process.
It is important because it gives specific and standard information on how a task is to be completed. This helps create a brand position for the company because their stuff will dealing with issues the same way. It also ensures that stuff are well trained and know what is expected of them.
Question 4
Business process improvement finds out the strength and weakness of the current process and attempts to improve it.
Business process reengineering, assumes that the current process is irrelevant an inefficient and designs a totally knew one
Question 5
Business process modeling
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