e-business tenth edition chapter 12 implementing e-business initiatives
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E-BusinessTenth Edition
Chapter 12Implementing E-Business Initiatives
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Learning Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn:• How to identify benefits and estimate costs of
electronic commerce initiatives• How online business startups are evaluated and
financed• When and how to outsource online business
initiative development• How to manage and staff electronic commerce
implementations
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Identifying Benefits and Estimating Costs of Electronic Commerce Initiatives
• Information technology projects– Keys to successful implementation
• Planning and execution
• Successful electronic commerce initiative business plan activities– Identifying initiative’s specific objectives– Linking objectives to business strategies
• Setting electronic commerce initiative objectives– Consider strategic role of project, intended scope,
resources available
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Identifying Objectives
• Typical business electronic commerce objectives– Increasing existing markets’ sales– Opening new markets– Serving existing customers better– Identifying new vendors– Coordinating more efficiently with existing vendors– Recruiting employees more effectively
• Objectives vary with organization size• Compare e-commerce risk to inaction risk
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies
• Downstream strategies– Tactics to improve the value businesses provide to
customers• Upstream strategies
– Focus on reducing costs or generating value working with suppliers or inbound providers
• Web use for businesses– Attractive sales channel for many firms– Complement business strategies, improve competitive
positions
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies (cont’d.)
• Electronic commerce activities difficult to measure• First-wave e-commerce activities
– Existed without setting specific, measurable goals– Plenty of investors for highly speculative activities– Successes and failures measured in broad strokes
• Second-wave e-commerce activities– Businesses took closer look at benefits and costs– Good implementation plan
• Sets specific objectives for benefits achieved and costs incurred
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Linking Objectives to Business Strategies (cont’d.)
• Third-wave e-commerce activities– Impacted by smart phones’ and tablet devices’
pervasiveness• Web access in many more locations• Changed nature of online communication
– Technology benefits more easily acquired• Example: Social media tools
– Smaller businesses’ electronic commerce activities increase anticipated
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits
• Some electronic commerce initiatives– Obvious, tangible, easy to measure– Example: increased sales or reduced costs
• Other electronic commerce initiatives – More difficult to measure– Example: increased customer satisfaction
• Identifying objectives– Set measurable objectives
• Include intangible benefits
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits (cont’d.)
• Using Web sites to build brands or enhance existing marketing programs– Set goals in terms of increased brand awareness
• Measured by market research surveys, opinion polls
• Companies selling goods or services online– Measure sales volume in units or dollars
• Complicated to measure brand awareness or sales– Increase due to other things company doing– Increase due to time or general improvement in the
economy
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits (cont’d.)
• Using Web sites to improve customer service or after-sale support– Set goals of increased customer satisfaction– Reduce customer service or support costs– Example: Philips Lighting
• Provided Web ordering system for smaller customers• Primary goal: reduce cost of processing smaller orders• Built pilot Web site and had smaller customers try it• Results: customer service phone calls from test group
dropped by 80 percent
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits (cont’d.)
• Measurements of other electronic commerce initiatives– Supply chain managers
• Measure supply cost reductions, quality improvements, faster deliveries of ordered goods
– Auction sites• Set goals for number of auctions, number of bidders
and sellers, dollar volume of items sold, number of items sold, number of registered participants
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits (cont’d.)
• Measurements of other electronic commerce initiatives (cont’d.)– Virtual communities and Web portals
• Measure number of visitors, quality of visitors’ experiences
• Metrics– Measurements companies make to assess value of
site visitor activity benefits• Online surveys• Estimates: length of time each visitor remains on site,
how often visitors return
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FIGURE 12-1 Measuring the benefits of electronic commerce initiatives
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Identifying and Measuring Benefits (cont’d.)
• Benefit unit of measure– Convert raw activity measurements to dollars
• Compare benefits to costs• Compare net benefit of a particular initiative to net
benefits provided by other projects– Difficult to measure value in dollars
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Identifying and Estimating Costs
• Information technology project costs – Difficult to estimate and control
• Web development– Uses rapidly changing hardware and software
technologies• Hardware costs are downward
– Increasing software sophistications• Provides ever-increasing demand for more newer,
cheaper hardware• Yields net increase in overall hardware costs
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
• Software costs often underestimated• Web technology’s rapid changes add to project
planning difficulty
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
• Total cost of ownership (TCO)– Includes all costs related to activity
• Electronic commerce implementation TCO includes:– Hardware costs, software costs, outsourced design
work, employee salaries and benefits, site maintenance
• Good TCO number– Includes assumptions about how often site would
need to be redesigned in the future
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
• Opportunity cost– Cost of not undertaking an initiative– Largest and most significant costs associated with
electronic commerce initiative– Foregone benefits that company could have obtained
from electronic commerce initiative not pursued– Examples: customers never obtained; sales not
made; suppliers not identified; and cost reductions not achieved in company’s supply chain
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
• Web site costs– Total dollar amounts required to create and operate a
Web site• Varied over the years
– Relative proportion of costs remained stable• 10 percent: computer hardware• 10 percent: software• 80 percent: labor
– Annual cost of operating an online business Web site• Remained stable• Ranges between 50 and 200 percent of site initial cost
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
– Small online store• Placed into operations for less than $5000
– Small to midsize online business operation• With full transaction and payment processing
capabilities• Initial investment: between $50,000 and $1 million• Average $80,000
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FIGURE 12-2 Estimated costs for business Web sites
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Identifying and Estimating Costs (cont’d.)
• Web site costs (cont’d.)– Costs generally heading downward
• Due to lower costs for broadband access and computer hardware
• Development and maintenance costs decreasing– Comparison of Netscape with more recent startup
companies• Netscape (early 1990s): more than $40 million• Digg (2004): less than $500,000
– Important element of annual Web site operating cost• Choice of Web hosting service provider
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FIGURE 12-3 Important Web hosting service features
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Funding Online Business Startups
• Early Web businesses– Started by individuals with knowledge of computers,
technology, business• Late 1990s Web businesses
– Started by investors wanting to make fast money• Angel investors funded initial startup
– Became stockholders hoping business grows rapidly– Sell interest to venture capitalist
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Funding Online Business Startups (cont’d.)
• Venture capitalists– Very wealthy individuals, investment firms– Look for small companies about to grow rapidly– Hope for rapid growth and initial public offering
• Initial public offering (IPO)– Selling stock to public
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Funding Online Business Startups (cont’d.)
• System of financing startup and initial growth of online businesses– Benefits
• Access to large amounts of capital early– Costs
• Investors• Most profits go to venture capitalists and angel
investors• Pressure to grow rapidly
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Funding Online Business Startups (cont’d.)
• Decrease need for venture capitalists and angel investors by:– Relieving pressure to grow rapidly– Becoming more creative– Learning from mistakes
• Trending toward more and smaller online ventures– Online business creation costs falling
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Comparing Benefits to Costs
• Capital projects (capital investments)– Major investments in equipment, personnel, other
assets– Techniques to evaluate proposed capital projects
• Range from simple calculations to complex computer simulation models
• Reduce to comparison of benefits and costs
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Comparing Benefits to Costs (cont’d.)
• Key parts of creating electronic commerce initiatives business plan– Identify potential benefits– Identify costs required to generate benefits– Evaluate whether benefits exceed costs
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FIGURE 12-4 Cost/benefit evaluation of electronic commerce strategy elements
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Return on Investment (ROI)
• Return on investment (ROI) techniques– Measures amount of income (return) provided by
specific current expenditure (investment)– Examples:
• Payback method, net present value method, and internal rate of return
– Provides quantitative expression of comfortable benefit-to-cost margin
– Mathematically adjusts for future reduced value of benefits
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Return on Investment (ROI) (cont’d.)
• Electronic commerce initiatives– Seen as absolutely necessary investments– Not always subjected to close examination, rigid
requirements– Companies fear being left behind
• Perceived value in new market early positioning allows:– Many companies to invest large amounts of money
• With few near-term profit prospects– Example: first wave of newspaper Web sites
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Return on Investment (ROI) (cont’d.)
• Electronic commerce second wave of Web-related expenditures– Being reviewed for ROI
• ROI built-in biases– ROI requires that all costs and benefits be stated in
dollars• Gives undue weight to costs
– ROI focuses on predicted benefits• Initiatives have returned benefits not foreseen
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Return on Investment (ROI) (cont’d.)
– ROI tends to emphasize short-run benefits over long-run benefits
– More information• CIO Budget site• ROI Knowledge Center Web pages
• Third wave electronic commerce– Highly sophisticated analyses of planned online
business activities
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Strategies for Developing Electronic Commerce Web Sites
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FIGURE 12-5 Evolution of Web site functions
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Strategies for Developing Electronic Commerce Web Sites (cont’d.)
• Transformation occurred rapidly– Web site development and management: slower
• Today: Web site seen as collections of software applications– Companies using tools to manage site
• Companies faced with challenges– Creating new markets through Web sites– Reconfiguring supply chains
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing
• Initiative’s success dependency– How well initiative integrates into and supports
business activities• Internal people leading projects ensures:
– Company’s specific needs are addressed – Initiative congruent with organization goals, culture
• Outside consultants– Seldom able to learn enough about organization’s
culture to accomplish objectives
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• Few companies launch an electronic commerce project without some external help
• Key to success– Finding balance between outside and inside support
• Outsourcing– Hiring another company to provide outside support for
all or part of project
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• The internal team– First step in outsourcing decision-making
• Create internal team– Team members
• People knowledgeable about Internet and its technologies
• Creative thinkers• Distinguished within the company
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Project lead• Mistake: technical wizard; not knowledgeable about
business; not well known• Better choice: person with business knowledge;
creativity; respect of firm’s operating function managers; good sense of goals and culture
– Measuring team achievement: important• Not necessarily monetary• Express in terms appropriate to initiative objectives
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Intellectual capital• Employees’ knowledge about the business and its
processes• Ignored in the past• Value recognized today
– Human capital measures• Include employee competencies• Include value of customer loyalty and business
partnerships
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Responsible for initiative • From setting objectives to final implementation
– Internal team decides:• Project parts to outsource• Outsourcer• Consultants or partners needed
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• Early outsourcing– Company outsources initial site design and
development to launch project quickly– Outsourcing team trains company’s information
systems professionals before handing site operation to them
– Company’s own information systems people work closely with outsourcing team• Develop ideas as early as possible in project life
• Late outsourcing– More traditional approach
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• Company’s information systems professionals– Perform initial design and development, implement
system, and operate system until stable – Once competitive advantage gained:
• Electronic commerce system maintenance outsourced– Company’s information systems professionals turn
attention and talents to developing new technologies, providing further competitive advantage
• Electronic commerce initiatives– Lend themselves more to early outsourcing
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• Partial outsourcing (component outsourcing)– Company identifies specific project portions
• Portion can be completely designed, developed, implemented, and operated by another firm
• Examples– Smaller Web sites outsource e-mail handling and
response functions– Electronic payment system
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Internal Development vs. Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Web hosting activity• Service providers usually willing to accommodate
requests for variety of service levels• Service provider has continuous staffing and expertise• 24/7 operation: running 24 hours a day, seven days a
week• Service providers offer wide range of services• Some service providers specialize
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing
• New ways of implementing partial outsourcing strategy evolved specifically for Web businesses
• Incubator– Offers start-up companies physical location with
offices, accounting and legal assistance, computers, and Internet connections
– Very low monthly cost– May offer seed money, management advice, and
marketing assistance – Receives ownership interest in company
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Incubator sells all or part of its interest• Company grows to obtain venture capital financing,
launch stock public offering– Early Internet incubator: Idealab
• Helped CarsDirect.com, Overture, Tickets.com• Today’s focus: internally generated ideas
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Company-created internal incubators• Develop technologies for use in main business
operations• Unsuccessful and shut down
– Matsushita Electric’s U.S. Panasonic division• Started internal incubators to help launch new
companies to become strategic partners• Incubator development team become managers of new
company– Strategic partner incubators: more successful
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing (cont’d.)
• Fast venturing– Existing company wants to launch electronic
commerce initiative• Joins external equity partners and operational partners
offering experience; skills needed– Equity partners: usually banks or venture capitalists
• Equity partners sometimes offer money• Equity partners more likely to offer experience
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New Methods for Implementing Partial Outsourcing (cont’d.)
– Operational partners: firms• Systems integrators, consultants• Experienced in moving projects along, scaling up
prototypes
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FIGURE 12-6 Elements of fast venturing
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Managing Electronic Commerce Implementations
• Best way to manage complex electronic commerce implementation– Use formal management techniques
• Project management• Project portfolio management• Specific staffing• Postimplementation audits
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Project Management
• Project management– Collection of formal techniques for planning and
controlling activities undertaken to achieve specific goal
– Developed by U.S. military and defense contractors– Project plan criteria
• Cost, schedule, and performance– Helps management make trade-off decisions
involving the three criteria
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Project Management (cont’d.)
• Project management software– Specific application software to help project managers
oversee projects• Internal team personnel and tasks
– Examples:• Oracle Primavera, Microsoft Project• Open Workbench, OpenProj, Redmine: open-source
project management software packages with many of the same features as the leading commercial products
– Also helps manage tasks assigned to consultants, technology partners, and outsourced service providers
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Project Management (cont’d.)
• Examining costs and completion times– Learn about project progression– Revise future estimated costs and completion times
• Risks of information systems’ development projects – Running out of control, ultimately failing– Causes: rapidly changing technologies, long
development times, and changing customer expectations
• Teams rely on project management software– Helps achieve project goals
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Project Management (cont’d.)
• Electronic commerce uses rapidly changing technologies– Relatively short development times
• Technology and user expectations have less time to change
• Initiatives more successful (in general)
• For more information– Project Management Institute
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Project Portfolio Management
• Used by chief information officer (CIO)– Top technology manager
• Project portfolio management– Technique whereby CIO monitors project like an
investment in a financial portfolio• Allows tradeoffs between cost, schedule, and quality
across projects as well as within individual projects• Provides more flexibility in allocating resources to
achieve the best set of benefits from all projects in the most timely manner
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Project Portfolio Management (cont’d.)
• Project management software– Designed to handle individual projects – Not suited for consolidating activities
• CIO assigns ranking for each project based on:– Importance to the strategic goals of the business– Level of risk (probability of failure)
• CIO uses any methods financial managers use to evaluate risk of making investments in business assets
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce
• Chief information officer (CIO)– Responsibilities
• Overseeing all information systems and related technological elements required to undertake and operate online business activities
• Business manager– Member of internal team setting project objectives– Responsible for implementing business plan elements
and reaching objectives set by internal team
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Project manager– Person with specific training, skills in tracking costs
and accomplishment of specific project objectives• Project portfolio manager
– Usually promoted from the ranks of the project managers
– Responsible for tracking all ongoing projects and managing them as a portfolio
• Account manager– Keeps track of multiple Web sites in use or keeps
track of projects combining into larger Web site
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Applications specialists– Maintain accounting, human resources, logistics
software, electronic commerce site software• Web programmers
– Design and write underlying code for dynamic database-driven Web pages
• Web graphics designer– Trained in art, layout, and composition– Understands how Web pages are constructed
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Content creators– Write original content
• Content managers or content editors– Purchase existing material and adapt it for use on the
site• Social networking administrator
– Responsible for managing virtual community elements of the Web operation
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Online marketing manager– Specializes in specific techniques used to build
brands and increase market share• Uses Web site and other online tools: e-mail marketing
• Customer service personnel– Design and implement customer relationship
management activities in electronic commerce operation
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Call center– Company handling incoming customer telephone
calls, e-mails for other companies– Makes sense for smaller companies
• Systems administrator– Responsible for system’s reliable and secure
operation
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Network operations staff functions include:– Load estimation and load monitoring– Resolving network problems as they arise– Designing and implementing fault-resistant
technologies– Managing any network operations outsourced to
service providers or telephone companies
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Staffing for Electronic Commerce (cont’d.)
• Database administration function support activities include:– Transaction processing, order entry, inquiry
management, shipment logistics– Activity requirements:
• Existing database into which site being integrated• Separate database established for electronic
commerce initiative
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Postimplementation Audits
• Postimplementation audit (postaudit review)– Formal review of project
• After up and running• Examine project items established in planning stage
– Compare to what actually happened• Objectives, performance specifications, cost estimates,
and scheduled delivery dates• Blame identification approach
– Used more in the past– Focused on identifying individuals to blame for cost
overruns and missed delivery dates
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Postimplementation Audits (cont’d.)
• Feedback on strategies used more today– Obtains valuable information
• Useful in planning future projects• Gives participants meaningful learning experience
• Comprehensive audit report– Analyzes project’s overall performance
• Administration of project• Appropriate project organizational structure in place • Specific project team(s) performance
– Should compare actual results to objectives
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Change Management
• Information system projects involve change• Employee concerns
– Ability to cope with changes, ability to continue to do good work, and job security
• Concerns lead to increased stress• Change management
– Process of helping employees cope with changes• Includes tactics designed to help employees feel
involved with change• Helps employees overcome feelings of powerlessness
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Summary
• Key elements of e-commerce business plans– Setting objectives in measurable terms
• Derived from initiative’s overall goals• Include planned benefits and planned costs
– Evaluate cost-benefit• ROI evaluation technique
– Determine outsourcing strategy, staffing– Learn from project experiences
• Postimplementation audit
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