Purpose

To assess your understanding for E-Business strategies and business model.

Action Items:

Choose any business organization of your interest and analyze it accordingly
I choose Amazon.

Attempt to answer the questions of the following related to your organization. (Note: Questions should be in the serial order with references wherever is required).

1. Define the 9 Building blocks of your organization with the responsibility of each block?

2. What are the key challenges that your company face during the strategy formulation process?

3. Explain the impact of the internet on the macro-environment on your company?

4. Review the impact of the internet on the five forces industry framework?

5. What is a competence and what criteria does it need to fulfil in order to qualify as a core competence? What make a competence distinctive for e-business?

6. Analyse the value chain of an e-commerce venture that you are familiar with. Explain how the internet has impacted on the primary and secondary activates of its value chain?

7. Explain how the internet can help your company to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace thorough
a. Cost leadership.
b. Differentiation.

8. What possible ways can your companies consider taking to deal effectively with disruptive innovation?

Assignment Workload:
- This assignment is an individual assignment means it cannot be given in a group or teams.
- The word count for each assignment must be between 2000 to 3000 words.
Assignment regulation:
- All students are encouraged to use their own words.
- Student is allowed to cite 10% from the word limit (3000 word limit means 300 words can be cited).
- A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.