Trends in E-Business
While there are many technical and business trends hare are few important ones.
E-business is crucial to business success
It is being proved in industry after industry that you must do e-business in order to be profitable, grow and even survives. E-business had proved to be more long lasting than the fad of reengineering, for example.
Technology focus is on e-business
If your consider the activities of the hardware, software and network vendors, they are directed toward providing the tools for e-business.
To them E-business is a natural extension of their products and services. In addition, new technology offers greater support for wireless and land based communications and networking – keys to the capability to do e-business.
E-business produces cumulative effects
E-business is long lasting. As you implement e-business, the nature of your relationship with customers, suppliers, and employees changes.
New dynamic forces are set loose that are not as not easily controlled and dealt with as compared to those of the standard internal business.
Dependency on business departments continues, but there is a greater dependence on IT resources.
E-business implementation results in many successes and failures
The literature abounds with examples of both success and failure. Failure tends to be more obvious and dramatic with e-business because is more visible externally.
Trends in E-Business
