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MIS chapter 3
Electronic Business Value
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02/27/2016

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Digital Darwinism
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Companies that cannot adapt to the new demands placed on them in the information age are doomed to extinction.
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A disruptive technology
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is a new way of doing things that initially does to meet the needs of existing customers
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A sustaining technology
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produces an improved product customers are eager to buy, such as a faster car or a larger hard drive.
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Internet
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a massive network that connects computers all over the world.
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World Wide Web (WWW)
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Provides access to internet information through documents that use a special formatting language using HTML. Access is allowed by web browser
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HTML
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Hypertext markup language, links users together
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HTTP
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hypertext transport protocol, used to request and display webpages
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URL
Definition
Universal resource locator, uses domain names
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Domain name hosting (Web hosting)
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Service allows owner of domain name to have a simple website
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Applet
Definition
program that runs within an application
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Web 1.0
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www between its first few years of operation 1991-2003
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Ecommerce
Definition
buying and selling over the internet
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Ebusiness
Definition
all internal and external business activities
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paradigm shift
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a new radical form of business enters the market and reshapes the way companies behave
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Information richness
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depth of details contained in a piece of information
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Information richness
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depth of details contained in a piece of information
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information reach
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the number of people a firm can communicate with all over the world
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mass customization
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ability of firm to tailor its products or services to the customer's specifications,

Ex: mm's with special colors and special messages
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personalization
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company can tailor it's website to individual people based on profile information. Ex: Unique portal creation
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long tail
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Netflix has as long tail of unpopular movies because it doesn't have to pay for shelf space of movies only rented occasionally
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intermediaries
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infrastructure that bring buyers and sellers together can be agents, businesses, or software.
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disintermediation
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intermediary is cut and business sells directly to customer online. opposite of reintermediation
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cybermediation
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intermediaries that could not exist without ebusiness
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Interactivity
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measuring ad effectiveness by observing ad feedback of visitors, time spent looking at ad, repeat visits, number of pages viewed.
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Clickstream data
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views the exact pattern of a consumers navigation through a site
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business model
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the detailed plan how a company creates, delivers, and generates revenues
Ebusiness model: same as above but for internet
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4 categories of Ebusiness models
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Business to Business: Buying and selling to each other over the internet
Business to consumer: selling directly to consumers online
Consumer to Business: Consumer who sells to a business on internet. (Priceline) Consumers set prices and wait for a seller to supply item.
Consumer to consumer: buying and selling to each other on internet. (Auctions)
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eshop, estore, etailer
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online retail store
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Search engine
Definition
software that finds pages based on keyword matching
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Internet Service Provider (ISP)
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company
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Real-time communication
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system updates info at the rate it receives it
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Ebusiness tools
Definition
Email, instant messaging, podcasting, videoconferencing, web conferencing (webinar), Content management systems for website
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Taxonomy
Definition
indexing content into categories ad subcategories of topics

information architecture: how all info in a given context should be organized, should not be confusing or site will fail
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Web 2.0
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encourages user participation contributing to the content
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open system
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allows third parties to create add on products t plug into or interoperate with the system
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source code
Definition
written instructions of computer software
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open source
Definition
free source code
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reputation system
Definition
buyers post feedback on sellers
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Collaboration system
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tools that support the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information
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collective intelligence
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collaborating and tapping into the core knowledge of all employees, partners, and customers.
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Knowledge management (KM)
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involves information assets for effective decision making
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knowledge management system (KMS)
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the know how of knowledge through out an organization
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explicit knowledge v Tacit knowledge
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anything that can be documented, archived, and codified. v The knowledge contained in peoples heads
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Crowdsourcing
Definition
collective intelligence found in the wisdom of the crowd
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Asynchronous communications
Definition
communication such as email in which the message and response do not occur at the same time.
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synchronous communication
Definition
communications that occur at the same time such as messenger and chat
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Social networking analysis (SNA)
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maps which group contacts identifying who knows and works together
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social networking
Definition
expanding business through personal network
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folksonomy
Definition
using the collective power of a community to identify and classify content lowering the costs of content organization bc there is no complicated nomenclature to learn
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real simple syndication (RSS)
Definition
web format used to publish updated works such as blogs in an updated format
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wiki
Definition
hawiian for quick. users can add, change, content
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network effect
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describes how products in a network increase in value to users as the number of users increases, more users attract more contributors.
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application programming interface (API)
Definition
set of routines and tools for building software applications with a mashup
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a mash up
Definition
website that uses information from more than one source to create a completely new product or service
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Semantic web
Definition
web 3.0 that describes things in a way that computers can understand, describes relationships between things.
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