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E-Business Technologies

Class 1: Introduction

Welcome!

A bit about me

A bit about you: brainstorming - a) What are e-business technologies? Whataren't? - b) What are examples of e-businesstechnology services? - c) Five years from now, what do you seeyourself doing? How will you get there?

Course Outline

Contact and availability

Use of class hours - Prerequisite requirements - Text (hopefully this one's just right...) - Guest lectures (might be shuffled dependingon availability)

Assignments

Competitive Intelligence

Co-creation Assignment - Business Analysis Consulting Project - Test (X2)

Guidelines

You must have contact with them! (e.g., email, face-to-faceinterview) Document analysis good background andsupport, but insufficient alone (why?) - Friends and family probably not best – no sensenetworking with people you know - “I sell random stuff from my garage on eBay” guy –probably not all that interesting - “I make kewl web pages” girl – see above. - Where to look? What to ask? We'll talk more on this nextweek, but start thinking now

Co-Creation Assignment

Course run on Wikispaces

http://cct355-f07.wikispaces.com - Sign up/sign in now - Wikispaces vs. WebCT Vista – a great e-business case... - WebCT may be used for posting of grades (if itworks...) Otherwise, please ignore it (I will.)

Glossary and Maintenance

E-business field can be jargon-laded - Short (e.g., 250-300 word) overviews of terms, withreferences to sites one can learn more - Individually written for Nov. 5 – first come, firstserved on terms - Editing and maintenance of entire site – continual –(start early, edit often for best results; last minuteattention to this not effective)

Business Analysis Consulting

What does a BA do? (And what doesn't a BAdo?)

Group final project - Picking organization that could benefit from e-business solution and proposing solutions thatcould be implemented based ondocumentation presented

Tests

One mid-term, one final term test - Both evaluate conceptual awareness and applicationvs. regurgitation of fact - Lecture notes and article analysis notes are yourstudy guide (articles themselves aren't requiredreadings, but ability to hold coherent opinions ondiscussion topics can be tested) - Example questions will be discussed previous to firsttest

Policy Notes

Academic dishonesty is a serious matter

Assignments are structured to make dishonestyobvious and easy to catch - So, don't cheat. It's stupid, and will get you in alot of trouble both here and in the businessworld (here you might only fail a class – inbusiness, you can get fired or worse.)

Accessibility and Due Dates

Notes on accessability resources and academicsupport – early identification and notificationmakes accommodation easy to grant

Due dates – same principle. Flexibility is easierto arrange with foreshadowing - Post-facto and undocumented excuses aren'tvery effective

Enterprise 2.0 - the IT “flower”

Old enterprise software does not leveragepower of connectivity and mass collaboration

Generally conceived for individual use,centralized management and control - Emergence of Web 2.0 apps (examples?) hasgiven rise to new branches of enterpriseapplications (hence the flower.)

Limits of “MS Office” Model

Confusing to coordinate and share - Confusing version and shared access controls - Limited shared searching, confined mostly todesktop and search tools - Not strongly related to transactional or structuredprocesses - Perhaps a dated productivity model - seems as muchsince Microsoft itself is extending it (e.g., SharePoint)

Solution #1: Web-based Office

Collaborative shared web-based documents vs.individual authorship on individual machines

Increasingly done by others - e.g., Google Docsand Spreadsheets