MIS 441  Global E-Commerce


Course Overview
This course explores how a select set of organizations are successfully implementing e-business technologies to gain advantages in the marketplace. In particular, the course emphasizes the new ways of thinking about business and about organizing along with an understanding of the actions that need to be taken to bring Net-enhanced business initiatives into reality.
3 credits.

Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to :

  1. Describe the key concepts of NEOs, i.e., how they are distinct from traditional businesses.
  2. Define and explain the nature and role of basic e-business technologies.
  3. Strategize about business models and plans using e-business theories and insights.
  4. Describe why becoming more 'virtual' can improve firms' competitive positions.
  5. Understand the main obstacles faced by e-business initiatives.
  6. Understand the social and legal structures that support and hinder e-business initiatives.
  7. Speculate, based on emergent e-business technologies, how the world might change in dramatic ways over the next decade.

Course Prerequisites
MIS 250.



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