1. How can Electronic Commerce pressure a business and drive organizational response? Be sure to provide examples to support your answers.
2. Some claim that digital business eliminates the “human touch”. Please explain.
3. Visit Amazon.com and identify at least three specific elements of its personalization and customization features. Browse particular books on a specific subject, leave the site and then go back and revisit again? What do you see? Are these features likely to encourage you to purchase more books in the future at Amazon.com? List the features and discuss how they may lead to increased sales.
4. Will Alibaba.com become the dominant e-tailer in the world, replacing Amazon, or will Amazon replace Alibaba.com? What factors could contribute to Alibaba.com’s success in the online marketplace? What factors could detract from its ability to dominate online sales?
5. Examine why schedule management and scope management are critical to e-project success.
6. Examine why quality management and release management are critical to e-project success.