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Introduction to E-Commerce:

E-Commerce History & Technology

[This module is covers a portion of the content covered in ECOM/ICS102]

I. Background of the Commercial Internet Learning Objectives

A.     Understand the origins of the World Wide Web

B.    Track the early commercial beginnings of the Internet

C.    Follow the dramatic growth of Internet marketing

D.    Learn the critical role of technology in modern marketing

II. Introduction

A.     Evolution of technology--radio and the telegraph as the first Internet

B.    Technology as the driver of change

C.    Technology offers opportunity, but risk and impact

D.    Advances in technology foster more innovation in the form of incremental improvements

III. Commercial Beginnings of the Web

A.     Noncommercial Net: 1969-1994

B.    Early take-off in 1995, Web sites lacked many of today’s features

C.    The Virtuous Web Cycle-each element feeding off one and onto the other

D.    Consumer & business Internet access

E.     Web sites & Web content

F.     Popular fascination

IV. Introduction to Electronic Information

A.     Communications technology

B.    LAN Technologies

C.    LAN  Defined

D.    History of the Internet

V.  Structure of the Internet

A.     Basic Structure

B.    Infrastructures

C.    Packet Switching

D.    Structure of the Internet: DNS

VI. Dramatic growth of the Internet-A .Com World

VII. Innovative Applications I

A.     The World Wide Web reaches world wide fans during World Cup Soccer action

B.    Three distinct stages to customer communication on the Web

C.    Consumer-to-consumer Commerce

D.    Consumer auctions such as eBay and Yahoo!

E.     Customers as partners

VIII.  Innovative Applications II

A.     Development of intranets and extranets

B.    20th century marketing technology--the ties to communication & transportation

IX. An Internet Marketing Methodology

A.     Key role of technology enabling speed, customization, and dialogue

B.    RealAudio systems add sound and motion

C.    Which features of technology need improvement and provide marketing opportunity

D.    Economic drivers of the Internet

X. The Digital World

A.     Learning Objectives

B.    Understand the impact of digital technology in marketing

C.    Be able to apply the concept of Moore’s Law to technology

D.    Learn what a digital environment is

E.     Realize the importance of Interactive Media to successful Internet marketing

F.     Relate technology to the business process

XI.  Digital technology

A.     Benefits of digital technology for marketers

B.    The impact of rapidly declining costs-- Moore’s Law

C.    Convergence of technologies--satellites, TV, radio, computers, photography

D.    The power of exponential changes allowing faster consumer adoption

E.     Computer technology decreases as others are increasing (newsprint, sales costs, time)

F.     Language translation allows for global commerce

XII. Digital Environments--Murray’s four fundamentals of digital environments

A.     Procedural

B.    Participatory

XIII. Digital Environments II

A.     Spatial

B.    Encyclopedic

XIV.  Digital Convergence--Interactive Media

A.     Cheap and powerful digital technology has led to a convergence of industries

B.    Computing--in 1996 a $419 billion industry

C.    Communications, including cable, telephone, satellite, and wireless

D.    Media content --TV shows, movies, cartoon characters, news, music

XV. The Financial Sector

A.     Trillions of dollars are traded and/or transferred each day (2.3)

B.    Direct deposit of paychecks--by 1995, 45.2 % of private workforce used direct deposit

C.    Automatic payments of mortgages, student loans, insurance premiums, etc.

D.    The coming of digital money--we are almost there!

E.     Issues--accessible, easy to use, and secure

XVI.  How Digitizing Works

A.     First digital code used by telegraph--dots and dashes (similar to 1’s and 0’s)

B.    Many things are already stored in digitized form--like this text!

C.    Colors are assigned a string of numbers to represent each color

D.    The sharper the image, the more pixels (assigned strings of numbers) needed

E.     Three dimensional digitizing

F.     The challenge of cost and time-effectiveness

G.    Be sure, capture material and store it digitally for future use

XVII.  Business Process Point of View   

A.     First-level processes are value creation that marketing performs--marketing & selling

B.    Second level processes are more detailed and complex

C.    Substituting digital material can significantly reduce cost--online marketing research

D.    Redesigning marketing processes to use digital--electronic ticketing

XVIII.  Networks:  Learning Objectives

A.     Help students understand the exponential value of communication networks

B.    Discuss the scope and capabilities of virtual value activities

C.    Demonstrate how and why the Internet works or doesn’t work

D.    Describe the types of networks within companies

XIX.  Marketing with Networks I

A.     Networks are a Social technology

B.    Ubiquity -- ever-present, accessible by all

C.    Expectations -- participant’s views of successful technologies

D.    Sharing -- efficiency through reciprocity

E.     Specialization -- freedom to specialize in areas of key capabilities

XX.   Marketing with Networks II

A.     Metcalfe’s Law

B.    Measures of network value

XXI. Self-Fulfilling Expectations I

A.     Publicity & Celebrity -- .com executives as celebrities

B.    The Economic Logic of Hype

C.    Sharing

D.    More users lead to lower per-user cost

E.     Sharing work across time zones allows for 24 hour, 7 day service

XXII.  Self-Fulfilling Expectations II

A.     Specialization

B.    Virtual Value Activities

XXIII. Why the Internet Works 

A.     Reliability

B.    American researchers focused on reliability in the event of nuclear war

C.    Paul Baran and the use of the “new” digital technology (1960)

D.    Efficiency

E.     British researchers focused on cost and efficiency

F.     Scalability through standards

G.    Scalability -- the capability to grow and add destinations, locations, paths, capabilities, and resources

XXIV. When the Internet Stumbles

A.     Breakdowns and outages -- no guaranteed service!         

B.    Delay and lags

C.    Server lags -- under capacity due to shifts in demand 

XXV. Networks Inside companies

A.     The public Internet

B.   Extranets

 

These Topic Outlines cover the content of one 5 week Module in the ECOM Program.

Email for more information:

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 TEXTS:

Efarim Turban; Introduction to E-Commerce (E-Commerce Essentials)

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RECOMMEDED TEXTS:

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Douglas Comer; The Internet Book: Third Edition   

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