Develop your understanding of the opportunities related to e-commerce.

Develop your understanding of the opportunities related to e-commerce. For this assignment, you need to do the items that follow. Don’t worry if some of the requirements seem improbable. They are designed for an extreme solution that forces one to consider a broad range of e-commerce possibilities.

Include the short paragraph about your company that you wrote for the Chapter 2 Valuing Innovations assignment
Add an additional location for your company. This assignment is for your new location only. Your new location can’t use anything from your existing company, including employees.
Identify the many and various needs your new location needs if it is to succeed. These needs must meet all of your new location’s needs–not just those related to MIS.
List e-commerce solutions for your company (there will be many solutions, since your employees do so little). For each solution, you need to identify and include the following:

The solution’s problem or opportunity (the reason your company has a need for the solution).
If you’re having trouble with this, think about your company’s product(s) and/or service(s), the departments, infrastructure, and issues related to infrastructure. Also, remember that you will outsource ALL of your needs.
Also, look at Chapters 4 and 5, which include many e-commerce solutions (e.g., design work, payment solutions, etc.). These examples may jump-start some ideas for solutions. However, youll need to go beyond the examples. Youll need to find a number of solutions that arent in the textbook or in the Blackboard material.
The name of and URL for the company that will provide the solution (your company is the recipient of the solution, not the provider). Each provider may be used one time only.
The price for the good or service. While this may not be possible for every solution, an accurate or closely estimated price should be possible for most solutions.
A brief description of how the solution how will help your company

For example, the manufacturing entrepreneur in the example in the slides wants to use PayPal:
PayPal
www.paypal.com
2.9% of the transaction plus 30 cents
Customers may use PayPal for purchases. PayPal processes the financial transactions, and provides better overall security for the transaction details and for credit card information than most small businesses.

This example is complete without being lengthy. The use of a numbered list makes the example easy to read (and wont be penalized).

If you’re having difficulty in thinking about this assignment, look at the at the Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce slides. There, you’ll find a manufacturing entrepreneur who used crowdspring, PayPal, square card reader, and other solutions. The example in the slides is limited, since it does not provide solutions for all of the company’s needs. You will need to cover all of your company’s needs (which is a reason this assignment is worth a lot of points).

This paper is worth a lot of points, and youre required to think about ALL of the needs of your company. So, papers that include more needs and a larger variety of solutions will score better than those that include fewer. While your result is about completeness not a number, know that you provide four solutions, you should expect a failing score.

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