E-business

Group Projects:

• Low-cost Airlines, Maciej Gacke, Lukasz Klimasinski, Pawel Komorowski, Robert Malton, Michal Slowikowski, Lukasz Zaskurski
• E-travel Agencies, Daniel Mzyk, AND OTHERS that will be revealed some time int he future...
• Online Recruitment, Diana Kusiak, Tomasz Jurek, Elvira Karolina Witon, Paulina Witon, Joanna Chudy
• Computer Companies, Harish Bhojwani, Bartosz Kapil, Konrad Najechalski, Karolina Vareilles, Mikkel Sand, Michal Bednarek
• Telecommunication Companies, Abi Chabkc Sandra, Karlowski Piotr, Komasa Bartek, Chludzinski Maciej, Papazoski Metodija, Trzcinska Joanna
• E-banking, Karol Klink, Giuseppe Schembri, Klaudiusz Bechcicki, Clement Pinard, Michal Kubocz, Josephine Romatti,
• Analysis of Music Download Services, Andreas Hauser, Peter Welnhofer
• Railroad Industries, Kinga Plaskota, Karolina Kmiec, Ewa Przytulska, Adam Sosnowski, Kuba Mielnik, Pierre Kuta

Interesting link(s):

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Material covered:

Session 1

• Introduction to e-commerce
  • What is e-commerce vs. what is e-business?
  • What are the key drivers of e-commerce and e-business?
  • Impact of e-commerce
    • benefits
    • limitations
    • problems it causes
  • Classifications of e-commerce
  • • Kalakota and Whinston
    • based on trasaction partners
    • based on degree of digitisation
  • Barriers to e-commerce
• Reading assignments:
  • Main readings:
    • TEXTBOOK == Chapter 1
    • V.Zwass, Macro-environment level of e-commerce
    • IBM Research Centre, E-Business. New Reality. New Rules
  • Other suggested readings:
    • J.L.Bower, C.M.Christensen, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave, Harvard Business Review, January-February, 1995
    • P. Drucker, Beyond the Information Revolution, October 1999
    • OECD, Overview of Electronic Commerce

Session 2

• Technology of e-commerce
  • networks and computers - basic typology
  • benefits brought about by networks
  • networks in e-commerce
  • the Internet
  • the importance of the Internet
  • extranets and their importance
• Reading assignments:
  • Main readings:
    • TEXTBOOK == Chapter 2
    • Book by Afuah and Tucci == Chapter 2
  • Other suggested readings:
    • K. Hafner, M. Lyon, Where Wizards Stay up Late: origins of the Internet, Touchstone, 1998
    • V. Cerf, Cerfsup

Session 3

• Group presentations
• Applications of e-commerce
  • forms of web-based business
  • web-page and its inner workings
  • web-site creation
  • effectiveness of web-sites
  • use of web-sites in corporations
  • e-mail and its usage
  • search engines and their usage
  • shapping carts and their usage
  • web-based interactive communication and its usage
• Reading assignment
  • Main readings:
    • TEXTBOOK == Chapter 3
    • L. Vishnevsky, What Cookies Can Do for You
    • S. Gomory, et al., IBM Research E-Commerce Intelligence
  • Additional Reading:
    • B. Lavoie, H. F. Nielsen, Web Characterization Terminology and Definitions
    • J. Dalgleish, Customer Effective Web Sites, Gartner Group
    • P. Catapano (Web Guru), It's the User, Stupid!
    • S. Feldman, E. Yu, Intelligent Agents: A Primer

Session 4

• Security issues in e-commerce
  • why do we care about security related issues?
  • types of security breaches
    • hackers, crackers and phreaking
    • attacks on physical infrastructure
    • probing, scanning, password attacks and IP spoofing
    • denial-of-service attacks
    • viruses
  • security as a corporate-wide issue
    • security policy
    • security measures
  • encryption
• Reading assignment
  • Main readings:
    • TEXTBOOK == Chapter 4
    • Collection of Articles from The Guardian, distributed in class
  • Additional Reading:
    • Pretty Good Privacy
    • Verisign, Introduction to Public Key Cryptography

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