Essays on E-Commerce

- Activity diagram
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What are the different Vulnerable Points in an E-commerce Environment?

An e-commerce environment has many vulnerable points that attackers can get to the system. One of the points of attack is the channel of connection between the client and the ISP provider. The attacker can tap this point and make an attack on the connection. The attacker can intercept the communication between the user and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and use security threats like spoofing to get data from the client. The client will lose money in the process. Another point of vulnerability is the ISP networks. There could be sniffer programs Continue reading...

During the last few years, we have observed a dramatic growth in the field of Information Technology and the main reason of this was an arrival of Internet technology and its subsequent development. Its rapid development and the further Information advancements and improvements have made the whole system more vulnerable against the virtual threats and attacks of internal and external origins. The threats and accidents in the Information Security can be explained with the lack of confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic data. However, the researchers kept fighting against these threats, as they kept on inventing a variety of Continue reading...

competitors in the clothing industry include Buckle, Pac Sun, Aeropstale, Urban Outfitters, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), Express, Wet Sea, Abercrombie & Fitch and Gap: however, Chic Boutiques’ main niche competitors are Wet Seal and American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) since they both target the same age demographic. Wet Seal deals in clothing for teenagers between 13-19 years and young women between 25-35 years of age, through its separate mall-based Wet Seal and Arden B chains of retail stores. Wet Sea stores sell fashionable clothing and accessories for female teenagers while, the Arden B. stores sell fashionable and contemporary office and casual Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Introduction
The main perspective of this assignment is to apply the concept of marketing on a given organization. The company which has been selected for the same analysis is ASOS. Different tools would be applied on the same company in particular, as SWOT, PESTLE, ANSOFF and others. It is assumed in this particular assignment that ASOS is trying to launch a new product of men T-Shirt in the market of the UK and for that stance they want to have a perfect communication or marketing plan.
ASOS plc is a UK’s leading online platform that is associated to Continue reading...

FedEx is made up of several divisions. The most significant division, and market leader in its segment is its FedEx Express unit. The FedEx Express unit is the world's number one express service carrier. FedEx Express delivers three and a half million packages every day to two hundred and twenty countries. FedEx owns a fleet of six hundred ninety airplanes, and fifty thousand motor vehicles and trailers. FedEx Office retail outlets and shops offer document-related and business services. These retail outlets also function as hubs for other FedEx units ("FedEx corporation competition," 2014). When FedEx is measured against all Continue reading...

The table above shows the results of nine different motivations that were included as “part 2” in the questionnaire, and were presented as “five-point” Likert scale questions measuring participants’ degree of consent. “1” represents a respondent from the survey, who agrees with the statement, and “2” represents the student who disagrees; therefore, the higher the mean result is, the more disagreeing with the survey statement the student is. The figures in the above mentioned table were calculated in order to find three main motivational factors that influence students to shop online. The results below show the prevailing motivations, which Continue reading...

Operations management is very crucial a process in the control of activities and decisions involved in the production, maintenance and delivery of goods and services. In encompasses all the activities and responsibilities that are employed in managing resources in production, maintenance and delivery of products and/or services. In at least every organization, there exists an operations arm that is mandated with such tasks of decision making and responsibility taking in trying to manage a company’s resources. This arm of management is usually headed by an operations manager who is responsible for supervisory work in managing these resources that Continue reading...

Executive Summary

The athletes industry is highly competitive and unpredictable for organizations that venture. As such, the industry has been dominated by companies such as Adidas and Nike. Accordingly, the aforesaid companies that have sustained market dominance have controlled the sports apparel and footwear sector for decades. As well, the market dominance by the various companies has been as a result of clear comprehension of the market of operation. Nonetheless, Under Amour has emerged as a formidable force within the athletes industry. As a new company with less than 30 years of experience, the organization has been growing tremendously. Accordingly, the Continue reading...

ITunes Music Store Analysis

ITunes music store is a one-stop online shop for digital contents consist of music, apps, movies and, electronic publications. The store is a division of Apple Inc. business focusing on providing contents for Apple-native devices. Consumers can purchase and download either individual tracks or complete albums from the artists of different genres. Unlike other online distribution shops, iTunes is not a subscription service or a stand-alone website, it is an entire application that is normally integrated in the operating systems and it is downloadable from the Apple store’s website. Albums cost between $7.99 and $12.99 but the majority Continue reading...

Question 1

Amazon has the benefit of eliminating overhead as well as carrying hefty quantities of inventory because it usually orders these books from it distributors. The company has grown to emerge as one of the largest retailing online companies as well as the largest e-commerce retailer globally. It avails goods such as books, clothing, toys, and electronics at competitive prices. Additionally, Amazon usually spends much of the earned cash in building more satisfying centers in order to accommodate more data and technology offerings. Walmart is among the largest e-commerce retailer on the internet, which provides Amazon with stiff competition. Walmart Continue reading...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is one of the biggest corporations in the world and is known as an organization which changed the way retail industry operated with its phenomenal and path breaking modus operandi based on cost effectiveness.
The success and growth of Wal-Mart is a thing of folklore, however as said in Spiderman ‘With great power’s comes great responsibilities’, and thus Wal-Mart success is testament to the strategic planning and its subsequent execution and keeping in perspective the magnitude of Wal-Mart operations and its efficiency.
However, things seems to have gone sour for Wal-Mart, there are multiple reasons however in Continue reading...

Thesis statement

User-friendly websites and electronic communication provide better customer service keep an organization up to the mark in satisfying customer needs.
Introduction:
An organization decides on what kind relationship it needs to have with people to whom they are serving. In addition, to serve people with your organization’s information, you need to develop excellent and smart strategy of core technology and quality service with fast response time. By using such technologies available, company saves time and gains high reputation, as well as the customer, would appropriately decide whether he is interested for further proceedings (Carlson, Jamie and Aron 282). Continue reading...

Stock Analysis of Amazon and J.C. Penney
- The two stocks selected are Amazon (AMZN) and J.C. Penney (JCP). Amazon is an American e-commerce company (online retailer) with a market capitalization of $171B, and J.C.Penney is an American clothes retailer with a market capitalization of $2.64B. These two stocks are of particular interest for our study period. Amazon is interesting because it is a strong growth internet company who is trying to innovate and convince its investors of its ability to sustain high growth rates. J.C. Penney is interesting because it is considered as a “fallen angel”, a previously Continue reading...

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act is a law that relates to the treatment of computer information. The changes in technology and increased use of computers in every sector created the importance for the creation of this law. The economic changes and the previous legal rules did not address the issues that related to contracting. This law is only applicable where transactions that involve the use of a computer. It also covers agreements to generate, adjust, transmission of multimedia, electronic data, online information, databases and internet related transactions.
This law creates rules that govern the transactions that use computer information Continue reading...

The actual charge associated with profitable health advancement implementation can be disappointing. Middle managers employ a likely important however badly recognized position inside health advancement implementation. Health care, in the US undoubtedly, is suffering along with wanting assist. Indeed, hospital treatment has produced unbelievable innovations in the past. The actual well-known problems range between professional medical glitches, which in turn through a few company accounts are the ninth primary cause of dying in the states, for the soaring charge associated with health. Just how much used right now presents in relation to one-sixth of the U.S. gross domestic merchandise; Continue reading...

Purpose of the Paper

Every business that strives for success needs to define success. A goal or set of goals is referred to the success. The paper focus is towards providing complete details on goal setting and use of goal setting strategies to achieve success in an organizational environment. Further, the paper will analyze FedEx goal setting application within the organization. Moreover, the paper will discuss the external and internal factors of FedEx through analyzing the trends, threats and competitive advantage of the management external and internal environment. The Porter Five Forces Model is used to examine the threats/challenges faced by the company Continue reading...

A good and innovative entrepreneurial business idea only be productive when it is put into action, and the business plan rolled out in a well set and sequential flow of activities without which the project may tumble and collapse (Amit & Zolt, 2012). RunandPlay. Com is an exclusive online company that targets to excel in the provision of internet based sporting entertainment, equipment and costumes for the various respective game programs offered. In setting up, an online business various concepts need to be put in place, and the entrepreneur is well conversant with the necessities required for the operational system Continue reading...

Introduction

Walmart Stores, Inc. branded as Walmart, was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. Its headquarters are Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. It is a, multinational retail corporation which runs chains large warehouse and discount stores. According to Fortune 500 list in 2013, it is the second largest public company globally. Besides, the company is the biggest private employer in the world having 2.2 million employees, and the largest retail in the world. In each week, Walmart receives 200 million customers and members in its more than 11,137 stores under its 69 names in 27 countries, and e-commerce websites. It is Continue reading...

Executive Summary

This report is about Lonely Cat Club Company, which offers an opportunity for the pet lovers to give their cats fun moments even when they are away from home. The club has well qualified and experienced employees who give pets lots of fun when brought to the club, and communicate promptly with clients to update them on the conditions of the pets. Lonely Cats Club manages to keep their competitive advantage due to their innovative nature and quality services they offer. The club has introduced the use of e-commerce in various departments to enhance activities such as advertisement, improving Continue reading...

Business Environment and Organizational Purpose

The organization for the interview is Accenture. It is a management consulting, outsourcing and technology services company. It operates in the Czech Republic and other 120 countries on the globe (Bakalova, 2011). It has been selected for the interview since it has a wide operation base across the world. In addition, it’s traded publicly, which means that it deals with a variety of stakeholders. The global presence of Accenture implies that it has applied some effective strategies in line with its mission. To obtain the information, the public relations manager of Accenture was interviewed. The report is in Continue reading...

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Introduction

The Internet Bubble, also called the “dot-com boom” was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. Historically, it was a speculative bubble, which means that people reached conclusions about its continued profitability that were not based on facts. The bubble covered a period from 1997-2000 and reached its ultimate climax on March 10, 2000 with NASDAQ stock trading reaching an unprecedented high of 5,408.60 in one day before the close of trading. That day stock markets in the industrialized countries saw the prices of their stocks rise briskly both in the Internet Segment and interrelated Continue reading...

Internet Strategist Paper

Introduction
Initially developed by the US Department of Defence for scientific research purposes, the internet has impacted numerous aspects of our daily private and public lives. The increasing use of the internet for social activity creates means through which companies seek to market their products and increase awareness of their presence, vision and activities (Cheung & Huang, 2005).
Though it is indeed a promising field in terms of marketing and sales, not all online marketing endeavours are successful; the main determinant for failure or success is users, not providers. The users are the ones driving success or failure of social Continue reading...

- Globalization and burgeoning technology/innovation that shrink product-life-cycles, coupled with global competitor’s quality and price, brings goods to the USA adding to 80-90% mega-competition for most consumer goods sold in USA, compared to <25% in 1950’s. Equally, global companies compete severely and challenge US firms abroad.
- The U.S. and Eurozone economies play major roles in the world economy and are crucially important for each other’s prosperity. The two sides combined account for around 40% of world GDP, over 25% of world trade, 60% of world foreign direct investment flows, and 60%-70% of world banking Continue reading...

Part-A: Privacy Protection

Introduction
Privacy policies are statements, usually stated on e-commerce platforms, which govern and determines the way in which the e-commerce platform gets or collects, uses maintains and discloses information from users (Ecommerce Platforms, 2014). It also covers how the information collected by the platform is protected against unauthorized third parties who might intend to have access to it for wrong purposes. 84% of Americans believe that privacy protection in the US is not adequate while 78% believe that consumers have lost confidence over how their information is being used (Head and Yuan, 2001:150). They further explained that the suspected Continue reading...

Introduction

The creation of an e-commerce business operation can be challenging but yet the results, and returns are rewarding if the on-line business is able to perform well. For the purpose of this paper, the Cliptomania Web Store is analyzed, and different aspects will be covered. The areas that are analyzed will include the problem statement, key success factors of the company, SWOT analysis to analyze the internal business environment, the solution to the problems and the evaluation of the solution for business success. The Cliptomania is a well-established and well-organized web-store. The main owner of the brand is Santos, Continue reading...

Business

Part A Whole Role Report
The company in the e-commerce industry chosen for this assignment is Ebay. Ebay is an online ecommerce marketplace that connects the buyers and sellers all over the world that can buy or sell anything using the online platform.
- Workplace Roles and Responsibilities

The workplace roles and responsibilities for the various employees in the online marketplace Ebay include the following:

- Functionality of the Ebay platform including the automatic payment system and order processing. The functionality and technical responsibilities of the employees in the technical team are to ensure that the website is functioning 24 hours without any technical error and loads on time. The servers team maintains the website administration Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Samsung is the largest company in the world in the Electronics segment. It has a hugely diversified product portfolio. However, the smartphone and mobile division accounts for the maximum profit and revenue of the company. It traditionally has dominated the Asian and East-Asian market with low cost to high cost range of mobile products. However, in recent times, Samsung is witnessing an increased difficulty in most of the markets. In China, it is losing market share to the domestic players like Xiaomi. In India, it is losing market share to Micromax and in Indonesia, to Mito.

Introduction

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ABSTRACT

The advancement in technology has made the mobile market the most expanding market in the world. The mobile is a device of choice world over in this age because of its accessibility fueled by cheap prices. Short Message Service in mobile phones together with Multimedia Message Service has emerged to fulfill most of the user requirements and subsequently become an effective communication and information delivery model. The use of mobile extends beyond the personal needs and can be used to access sophisticated applications in a convenient and secure environment. Technologies such as Near Field Communication provide the phone with Continue reading...

2. Table of contents 

Introduction pg 3

PESTLE Report pg 3
Environmental Audit pg 4
Internationalization pg 5
Conclusions pg 6
Recommendations pg 7

References pg 8

3. Introduction
There are a number of techniques involving internationalization processes that affect global trends in apparel and textiles. As evaluated in this environmental audit, significant management strategies and independent recommendations have played a part in the current market regions. Further, these changes imply future expansion in international markets that can be partial to present trends and circumstantial evidence. Evaluations based on these criteria as well as recommendations will be presented in this organized review of the topic Continue reading...

- Deriving future strategic recommendations for TESCO in the UK using the SWOT analysis and the PESTEL framework

Introduction and Explanation of the Methodology of the Paper:

The retail giant TESCO is currently facing difficulties all around its home – base in the UK (Ruddick, G. 2014a). Its share prices have been dropping, its losses are higher than even expected, an accounting scandal and leadership changes are shaking a company, which, as if this all had not been enough yet, is suffering from very low customer satisfaction rates (Ruddick, 2014). Within this paper it is intended to use as a major methodology two key tools out of classic strategic Continue reading...

What is the Story about?

The new marketing story is about that marketing strategy employed by a single firm, Apple Inc. The new in the article does not center on the wider implications of the telecommunications market even though there are mentions of other market players within the industry. The company is launching a new product into the market; the iPhone 6 ready to be sold to any willing buyers in the market. As part of the marketing campaign adopted by the company, the company is lowering prices for the consumers who buy the old iPhone 5S device online to help finish current stock Continue reading...

Throughout history terrorism has been a part of the global society and along with the world globalization trends terrorism has also become more advanced and organized in its nature. Alongside the digital commerce has been born and today, it appears to be an inevitable part of the world’s daily life. In fact, globalization can be held accountable for both terrorism and digital commerce: first, it nurtured numerous intercultural tensions which in turn gave a rise to terrorism, facilitating the means and conditions; and second, together with the technology innovation it raised world’s commerce to new highs.On the Continue reading...

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Introduction 3
Ethical Issues in Information Technology 4
Ethical Case Study in IT 5
IT Laws 6
Cultural Differences in the Use of IT 7
Conclusion 8

Abstract

People continuously thrive in making their lives easier; thereby inventing different kinds of technology to suffice what is needed for different kinds of human work. The Internet emerges as the greatest invention yet in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as it transcends the barriers of communication. However, ethical issues arise in its use, one of which is seen in the rampant inequality in the access of cyberspace as not everyone is privileged Continue reading...

Management information systems

Introduction
Information systems are important components that have been integrated in organizations in the world today. Information systems play crucial roles in different organizations. To some organizations, they play the role of bringing competitive advantage, to some it plays the role of efficiency and fats transactions. In banking it is used to increase the efficiency of services, in health, it used to increase the accuracy of undertaking operations. This paper will focus on the use of information systems in different organizations. The two organizations where the paper will be focused will be Google and Amazon. They are different because Continue reading...

Business Project – Indian ICT Industry

Introduction
Information Technology (IT) today has a wide gamut of applications from running our cars and appliances to making telecommunications possible across continents and managing entire factories and cities. Thanks to the development of technology, information access at gigabit speeds is now considered a standard service, with users demanding even more data at higher speeds. A country’s IT development potential outlines it technology-readiness and ability meet the challenges of the coming future, along with a focus on growing gross domestic product (GDP) and meeting up energy and environmental challenges. The world’s ICT industry is growing at a Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper entails a business plan outline for an e-commerce business which will operate under the name Decca Galleria. The business entails the sale of various forms of artwork which include paintings, assorted furniture, and many other similar antique products. This entity will operate entirely as an online business, which will target both local and international customers in its operations. The business plan for this entity is highlighted in this paper, and it includes an in –depth analysis of the various components that will influence directly the success of the venture.
According to Laudon and Carol (67), the e-commerce Continue reading...

Introduction

The case study will focus on Pankaj et al (2004) and David, B. Y & Renee, K (2013), articles published in Harvard Business School, journal, to review and discuss Wal-Mart’s operations capabilities and way forward.
Wal-Mart as an organization is a story of astonishing success in terms of revenues and the way it has touched lives through its products and services made Forbes declare the company in March 2003, as the largest and most admired American company.

Wal-Mart’s strategy in the discount retailing industry

The strategy of Wal-Mart is affixed on differentiated pricing, cost leadership, strong distribution, inventory management and most importantly in tandem with the Continue reading...

Introduction:

United Parcel Service or UPS is the world’s largest parcel delivery company. Although bulk of its sales come from the United States of America’s domestic market, the company has large presence around the world. The company had a humble beginning, and it was started as brainchild of few teenagers. However, the company continued to grow, and it is now the world’s largest parcel delivery company.
The previous fiscal year (2012) was a tough year for the company where its revenue fell by a large percentage. However, the overall position of the company is still positive, and Continue reading...

Evidence abounds that online retail stores such as Amazon and eBay are causing brick-and-mortar stores to close down. Whether reducing their portfolio of stores or going out of business altogether, owners of physical stores are facing a daunting challenge when competing with online retailers that are increasingly attracting customers.
The most important reason that customer chose online shopping over going to a physical store is comfort. Next in line comes availability. Not only is the customer afforded the comfort of sitting at home or anywhere to browse through hundreds of products at the click of a button, he or Continue reading...

#211905869 - Expanding Your Business

Boston will make a great location for our second store for the following reasons. The city has a very rich history both technologically and education-wise. This meets the vision of our business which is to sell rare books both online and offline. This is the case for the following reasons. To begin with, the city of Boston is home to over 50 highly acclaimed colleges and universities including Ivy League universities Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to this, Massachusetts in general is home to some of the best performing public schools.
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