Reference no: EM132518316
ASSIGNMENT 1
Assignment Activity 1. Research on the Evolution of E-Commerce:
Research and Develop a Timeline on the Evolution of E-Commerce and write your reflections on the following:
1. What are the significant events that led to E-Commerce? How are these events related to E-Commerce?
2. Do you think E-Commerce has positively contributed to the business industry?
3. Was E-Commerce purposely created by the business industry or was it incidental to the evolution of IT? Why?
4. What is the extent of your knowledge and understanding of E-Commerce? Do a self assessment?
Assignment Activity 1.2.Video Analysis on How Globalization and IT have Reshaped the World?
This forum is for you to share your insights on How Globalization and IT have Reshaped the World?
View attached video
React on the speaker's points of view. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Can you share your insights on how IT and Globalization interplay?
The speaker, on his last statement said, "We have to redefine institutions and look for strategies to close the gap". What are your realizations from this statement of the speaker? Can you see the relationships of his thoughts to E-Commerce?
Assignment Activity 1.3: Video Analysis on the "Day of the Long Tail"
Journal on Video Analysis
Watch the video entitled "Day of the Long Tail". Please post your analyses, insights or reflections on the video.
Guide:
a. What are the changes in the environment that affected the business industry?
b. Why do you think the video is entitled " Day of the Long Tail"?
c. What is the status of E-Commerce as expressed in the video?
d. How will E-Commerce change the future in terms of business strategies?
Assignment Activity 1.4. Creative Presentation of the Effects of E-Commerce to Globalization and Vice-Versa
Develop a creative presentation using powerpoint or other software on the effects of Globalization to E-Commerce and vice-versa. The presentation will later be shared to your classmates and posted in the www.slideshare.net . This presentation will be your contribution to the knowledge network so it should challenge your creativity and be meaningfully made. If you will adopt resource materials from some sources, kindly recognize your references to comply with the Intellectual Property Rights Law. Please include in your presentation your expression of insights and analysis on the effects of Globalization to E-Commerce and vice-versa.
Please view the resources below as part of your inputs. These were taken from the seminar organized on April 22, 2002 under the auspices of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development. The proceedings are intended to serve as an input into the Committee's consideration of the issue of electronic commerce as part of the overall WTO Work Programme:
Assignment Activity 1.5. Synthesis on the Status of E-Commerce
Read and analyze the attached articles to develop comprehensive synthesis of the Status of E-Commerce in the World.
ASSIGNMENT 2
Assignment Activity 2.3. Forum on Ethical Issues in E-Commerce
"Ethics is the inner Assignment Activity of the man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality".
Albert Schweitzer
When there are limited laws, the business world demands greater ethical practice. E-commerce Laws have been criticized as incomplete and do not sufficiently protect the welfare of the stakeholders.
Read the REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8792 of June 14, 2000, AN ACT PROVIDING AND USE OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS, PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL USE THEREOF, AND OTHER PURPOSES
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8484AN ACT REGULATING THE ISSUANCE AND USE OF ACCESS DEVICES, PROHIBITING FRAUDULENT ACTS COMMITTED RELATIVE THERETO, PROVIDING PENALTIES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Can you share in the forum the weaknesses of the existing E-Commerce Laws in the Philippines. What are the ethical issues that are not addressed by the existing laws? Create a forum for each issue and interact with your classmates. If you are given a chance to share your insights to our law makers, what specific laws on E-Commerce will you be strongly recommending and lobbying. Why?
Assignment Activity 2.4. Forum on Improvements of E-Commerce Technologies
Can you interact with the points of view of your classmates.
ASSIGNMENT 3
Assignment Activity 3.1. Managing Change
Read and View topics on Managing Change
Video on Secret of Change Management
Guide Questions:
1. What were the components that are important in managing change in E-business?
2. What are the e-business strategies that lead the companies to succeed?
3. Why is managing change important in E-business?
Assignment Activity 3. 3.B. Video Analysis Forum on Ecommerce Strategies and Techniques
Watch the following videos and share what are your learning insights. Read and learn from the insights shared by your classmates in the forum. Smarter Commerce - Redefining the value chain in the age of the customer
Smarter Commerce and the value chain
Creative Presentation in a Forum
Watch the following video clips on supply chain and do a creative presentation in this forum by analyzing your own company's supply chain and identifying areas where ecommerce can be a business strategy. Your presentation must be something creatively done which will stir the interest of your classmates. The manner in which you will present must be a challenge of how creative you are.
Supply Chain Cycle
The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future
Global Value Chain
ASSIGNMENT 4
Assignment Activity 4.1. E-commerce Framework for Managers
View, read and analyze the following:
Future Supply Chain
An Interoperable B2B e-Commerce Framework for e-Marketing Capabilities
e-Business and Supply Chain Management: An Overview and Framework
Develop an E-Commerce Concept Map /Framework from the learning insights you developed from the above articles. Explain vividly your framework.
Assignment Activity 4.2. Trailing E-Commerce for Competitive Advantage
As IT Professional in the Business World, reflect on how your knowledge in this E-commerce course would provide Competitive Advantage for you in the future. What business strategies have you learned in the past lessons you can capitalize on? How can you step forward and be on the right track with E-commerce?
Assignment Activity 4.3. Using Social Networking for Career Opportunities
Beyond Farmville: Using Facebook for Your Business Success
Develop your faceboook, blog, or web page as an eCommerce opportunity for your career opportunities. Provide the link to your facebook.
Attachment:- Research on the Evolution of E-Commerce.rar