The Success Of E Business

Good analysis of two practical cases of real businesses adopting e-business practices to compete more effectively.

E - Business presents a great opportunity to and organization to increase sales and enter into a much larger

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A method by which the strategy development can be explained is the “strategic lenses”. This method views strategy development as design, experience, ideas and discourse. Strategy as design means that it emerged through rational processes, whereas the experience lens sees the strategy as the outcome of individual and collective experiences. The lens “discourse” sees strategy as the result of communication and concepts. The last lens, which is the idea lens, is about the development of strategy as a result of innovation (Johnson et al, 2008).

Evaluate how successful a selected business organisation has been in preparing for the growing use of e-business.

The main objective of this study is to examine the important and advantages for Tesco in using e-business strategy to compete with competitors. It also includes on how Tesco could satisfied their customer needs or demands adequately with their e-business strategy and how Tesco could improve their current model and make it even better.

COMBE, C. ( 2006). Introduction to e-business : management and strategy. Amsterdam ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

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Businesses need to take advantage of e-commerce to beat competition. There is an example of a leading organization in the building industry, with over 2000 suppliers and 25 stores serving both trade and retail customers. They wanted to reduce overheads, strengthen their supplier relationships and take advantage of e-commerce.

The authors go into detail on how the Papermill company operates from Sales all the way to shipping and how they have 3 different organizations and 5 different work units in all. They collected various data in their case study and after analyzing the data they came to the baffling conclusion that despite the new Mill Execution system (MES) being implemented, that was meant to change the practices, in fact remained almost the same. The authors then go into great detail and explained the use of their multi-dimensional view of the IS strategy process, which is used to extend the literature on IS strategy, and stresses the need to really understand the strategy implementation as an rooted process that the actors respond, make sense of and shape based on all the practices they belong to. The author stresses that there is a need for future research and longitudinal studies of the IS strategy-as-practice and hopes that

This assignment examines the e-business strategies implemented in Strada Cafe – An Italian gourmet chain owned by Tragus group. Strada - A concept spawned in 2000 grew up to 30 odd chain restaurants before it changed hands, which was further expanded to nothing less than 55 restaurants. It grew up in a steady phase with the aim of establishing itself as a combination of ethnic Italian dining combined with the power of today’s technology. Tragus group ltd. established Strada as a chain of contemporary Italian restaurant serving high standard simple food. The food quality is maintained with fresh food made from finest ingredients. Now Strada has spread all over the country with more than 70 restaurants attracting customers

Edward T. Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, edward_chen@uml.edu ABSTRACT eBay is a highly visible company that has been immensely successful in their implementation of a business strategy that incorporates their information strategy. It is a shining example of an Internet era company that actually turns a profit, and managed to outlast the “dotcom crash”. By remaining flexible and adaptable, the ever-changing eBay has developed a technology platform that differentiates them from their rivals. This paper analyzes the information technology strategy and information systems policy adopted by eBay to react to the business dynamics while maintaining the leading position in the

De Wit, B. and Meyer, R. (2010) Strategy: Process, Content, Context: An International Perspective, 4th Revised edition, Cengage Learni

Information Technology (IT) is a critical and, oftentimes, complex component of an organization’s structure. Despite its importance, IT is often viewed as a ‘black hole’ by senior management of organizations- consuming valuable resources and assets. Unfortunately, this mentality can greatly hinder the economic advancement capabilities and capacities of an organization. As previously indicated, IT is a critical component to both the daily and future business needs of an organization. Senior managers of organizations must view IT as an essential piece of their company’s portfolio that can greatly increase the organization’s efficiency, earning potential and innovation.

Explain what an e-business strategy is in terms of its importance in planning and controlling organisation’s e-business.