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Chapter 13
Planning for Electronic Business
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Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn about:
• Identifying the value of electronic commerce initiatives
• Aligning implementation plans with strategies
• Deciding which electronic commerce project elements to outsource
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Learning Objectives (cont.)
• Selecting Web hosting services
• Using incubators and fast venturing techniques to launch Internet business initiatives
• Using project and portfolio management techniques to plan and control electronic commerce activities
• Staffing electronic commerce activities
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Planning the Electronic Commerce Project
• A successful business plan for an electronic commerce initiative should include activities that will:
• Identify the initiative’s specific objectives
• Link those objectives to business strategies
• Manage the implementation of those business strategies
• Oversee the continuing operations of the initiative after it is launched
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Identifying Objectives
Common objectives include:
• Increasing sales in existing markets
• Opening new markets
• Serving existing customers better
• Identifying new vendors
• Coordinating more efficiently with existing vendors
• Recruiting employees more effectively
• Resource decisions should consider the expected benefits and costs of meeting the objectives.
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies
• Businesses can use downstream strategies, which are tactics that improve the value that the business provides to its customers.
• Businesses can pursue upstream strategies that focus on reducing costs or generating value by working with suppliers or inbound logistics.
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies
• The Web is an attractive sales channel.
• The Web can be used to complement business strategies and improve competitive positions.
• Electronic commerce opportunities can inspire businesses to undertake many activities.
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies
• More companies are taking a closer look at the benefits and costs of their electronic commerce projects.
• A good business plan will set specific objectives for the benefits to be achieved and costs to be incurred.
• Companies use pilot Web sites to test an electronic commerce idea, and then release a production version when it works well.
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Measuring Benefit Objectives
• Many companies create Web sites to build their brands or enhance existing marketing programs.
• These companies can set goals in terms of increased brand awareness, as measured by market research surveys.
• Companies that sell goods or services on their sites can measure sales volumes in units or dollars.
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Measuring Benefit Objectives
• Companies can use a variety of similar measurements to assess the benefits of other electronic commerce initiatives.
• Supply chain managers can measure supply cost reductions, quality improvements, etc.
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Measuring Benefit Objectives
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Measuring Cost Objectives
• Many changes in the cost of hardware are downward.
• The increasing sophistication of software provides an ever-increasing demand for newer hardware.
• The project budget must include the cost of hiring, training, and personnel.
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Measuring Cost Objectives
• Based on data collected in separate recent surveys, International Data Corporation and the GartnerGroup both estimated that the cost for a large company to build and implement an adequate entry-level electronic commerce site was about $1 million.
• About 79% of that cost was labor related
• 10% was the cost of software
• 11% was the cost of hardware
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Measuring Cost Objectives
• Recent estimates of the cost to build small Web sites have continued to increase as more companies establish themselves on the Web.
• Expensive features, such as shopping carts and search engines, have become standard on even the most basic sites.
• Analysts have estimated the minimum dollar amount needed to open an entry level electronic commerce Web site at $150,000.
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Measuring Cost Objectives
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Measuring Cost Objectives
• The McKinsey study estimated costs for two types of magazine sites: a full portal site that would serve as a destination in itself and a more limited magazine companion site.
• The full portal site cost estimate was $2.4 million to build and $4.3 million per year to maintain, with a staff of 35 people.
• The companion site cost estimate was $150,000 to build and $270,000 per year to maintain, with a staff of two people.
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Measuring Cost Objectives
• Kmart’s Web store, Blue-Light.com, cost more than $140 million to create.
• The site is certainly well designed and highly functional, but the typical visitor would never guess how much this site cost.
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Measuring Cost Objectives
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Comparing Benefits to Costs
• If the benefits exceed the cost of a project by a comfortable margin, the company invests in the project.
• Companies should evaluate each element of their electronic commerce strategies using this cost/benefit approach.
• Managers often use return on investment (ROI) to evaluate any capital investment.
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Comparing Benefits to Costs
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Comparing Benefits to Costs
• Although most companies evaluate the anticipated value of electronic commerce initiatives in some way before approving them, many companies see these projects as absolute necessities.
• These companies fear being left behind as competitors stake their claims in the online market space.
• The value of early positioning in a new market is so great that many companies are willing to invest large amounts of money with few near-term profit prospects.
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Comparing Benefits to Costs
• Newspaper Web sites are a good example of this desire to establish a foothold in the online market space.
• Profitable electronic commerce initiatives in the newspaper business, such as Gannet’s USA Today and The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com sites, are few.
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Strategies for Web Site Development
• The evolution of Web site functions:
• From the static brochures of the early days of electronic commerce
• To transaction processing tools
• To today’s automated homes for business processes of all kinds
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Strategies for Web Site Development
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Strategies for Web Site Development
• The transformation of Web site functions occurred rapidly, taking only a year or two in most companies.
• Few businesses have caught up with the changes in terms of how they develop Web sites.
• The purposes and scope of Web sites have increased greatly, but few businesses today manage them as the dynamic business applications they have become.
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Strategies for Web Site Development
• Many large and medium-sized companies have found it extremely difficult to develop new information systems and Web sites that work with their existing systems to create new markets or reconfigure their supply chains.
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing
• The key to success is finding the right balance between outside and inside support for the project.
• Hiring another company to provide the outside support for the project is called outsourcing.
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The Internal Team
• The first step in determining which parts of a project to outsource is to create an internal team that is responsible for the project.
• Business knowledge and creativity are much more important than technical expertise in establishing successful electronic commerce.
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The Internal Team (cont.)
• Measuring the achievement of an internal team is very important.
• Customer satisfaction, number of sales leads generated, and reductions in order-processing time are examples of metrics that can provide a sense of the team’s level of accomplishment.
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Early Outsourcing
• In many electronic commerce projects, the company outsources the initial site design and development to launch the project quickly.
• The outsourcing team then trains the company’s employees in the new technology before handing the operation of the site over to them .
• This approach is called early outsourcing.
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Late Outsourcing
• The company does the initial design, development, implementation, and operates the system until it becomes stable.
• After the company has gained all the competitive advantages provided by the system, the maintenance of the electronic commerce system can be outsourced.
• This approach is called late outsourcing.
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Partial Outsourcing
• In partial outsourcing, the company identifies specific portions of the project that can be completely designed, developed, implemented, and operated by another firm that specializes in a particular function.
• E-mail systems, electronic payment systems, and Web hosting are examples of partial outsourcing projects.
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Partial Outsourcing
• Another common example of partial outsourcing is an electronic payment system.
• Web hosting is one of the most common elements of electronic commerce initiatives that companies outsource using partial outsourcing.
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Selecting a Hosting Service
• The internal team should be responsible for selecting the ISP that will provide the site’s hosting service.
• For smaller electronic commerce projects, teams can consult an ISP directory, such as ‘The List’.
• For larger Web sites, the team will want to obtain the advice of consultants or other firms that rate ISPs and CSPs, such as ‘Keynote Systems’.
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Selecting a Hosting Service (cont.)
• The factors to evaluate when selecting a hosting service include:
• Functionality
• Reliability
• Bandwidth and server scalability
• Security
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Cost
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Selecting a Hosting Service (cont.)
• Determine the functionality offered by a hosting service and carefully evaluate whether that functionality will be sufficient to meet the needs of your Web site.
• Because the company’s information on customers, products, pricing, and other data will be placed in the hands of the service provider, the vendor’s security policies and practices are very important.
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing
• New ways of implementing the partial outsourcing strategy have evolved for Web businesses.
• Two of the more popular methods are:
• Incubators
• Fast venturing
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Incubators
• An incubator is a company that offers start-up companies a physical location with offices, accounting and legal assistance, computers, and Internet connections at a very low monthly cost.
• Incubators might offer seed money, management advice, and marketing assistance.
• In exchange, the incubators receive an ownership interest in the company.
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Incubators
• Some companies have created internal incubators.
• A number of companies have used internal incubators in the past to develop technologies that the companies planned to use in their main business operations.
• Recently companies, such as Matsushita Electric’s U.S. Panasonic division, have started internal incubators to help launch new companies that will grow to become important strategic partners.
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Fast Venturing
• In fast venturing, an existing company that wants to launch an electronic commerce initiative joins external equity partners and operational partners to scale up the project rapidly.
• Equity partners are usually banks or venture capitalists.
• Operational partners are firms that have experience in moving projects along.
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Fast Venturing
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Managing Electronic Commerce Implementations
• The best way to manage any complex business software implementation is to use formal project management techniques.
• Individual projects can become so large that it becomes impossible for managers to maintain control without some kind of assistance.
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Project Management
• Project management is a collection of formal techniques for planning and controlling the activities undertaken to achieve a specific goal.
• The project plan includes criteria for cost, schedule, and performance.
• It helps project managers make intelligent trade-off decisions regarding these three criteria.
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Project Management (cont.)
• Project managers use specific application software called project management software to help them manage projects.
• Microsoft Project and Primavera Project Planner are tools for managing resources and schedules.
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Project Management (cont.)
• Project management software can help the team manage the tasks assigned to consultants, technology partners, and outsourced service providers.
• The Project Management Institute is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion of professional project management practices.
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Project Portfolio Management
• Project portfolio management is a technique in which each project is monitored as if it were an investment in a financial portfolio.
• In project portfolio management, the CIO assigns a ranking for each project based on its importance to the strategic goals of the business and its level of risk.
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Staffing the Operation
• Regardless of outsourcing, an internal team must determine the staffing needs of the electronic commerce initiative.
• The general areas of staffing include:
• Business management
• Application specialists
• Customer service staff
• Systems administration
• Network operations staff
• Database administration
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Staffing the Operation
• Some companies outsource parts of their customer relationship management operation to independent call centers.
• A call center is a company that handles incoming customer telephone calls and e-mails for other companies.
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Post-Implementation Audits
• A post-implementation audit is a formal review of a project after it is up and running.
• The post-implementation audit gives managers a chance to examine the objectives, performance specifications, and cost estimates; to schedule delivery dates that were established in its planning stage; and to compare them to what actually happened.