The course will give students the opportunity to:

 become acquainted with the different activities businesses can perform online to drive their organizational goals and the tools and technologies they can make use of to perform those activities;

 define example e-business activities;

 analyze data collected from e-business activities and assess the activities’ success;

 identify applicable issues with e-business activities and propose means to address those issues; align e-business activities with an overall e-business strategy and use economic and non-economic arguments to justify their use.

Overview of E-business

 The changing face of business

 E-business and E-commerce

Justifying E-Business Investment

 Reasons and difficulties in justifying an e-business approach

 Methods and tools for evaluation and justification

Launching an E-Business

 Creating a Web site for e-business

 Adding e-commerce with a Web store

Develop a E-Business Strategy

 Organizational strategy: concept and overview

 Strategy initiation, formulation and implementation

Marketing and Advertising

• Interactive marketing online

• Search and Website advertising

Retailing

• Electronic retail

• Business-to-Business E-commerce

Payment and Order Fulfillment

• The e-payment revolution

• E-logistics and supply chain management

Social Commerce

• Doing business via social networks

• Social network marketing and advertising

Mobile Commerce

• Mobile applications and the mobile Web

• Location based e-commerce

Video Commerce

• Online video marketing and advertising

• T-commerce: e-business with interactive television

Regulatory, Social and Ethical Issues

• Doing e-business globally

• Ethical concerns and pitfalls in e-business

• Intellectual property law and copyright

• Fraud and other illegal activity