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The document is a chapter from an e-commerce textbook. It discusses the evolution of e-commerce from its early beginnings in the 1990s to the present day. It covers topics such as the growth of B2C and B2B e-commerce, the development of technologies like the internet, web and mobile platforms, and different types of e-commerce models. The chapter also examines some of the unique features of e-commerce technology and how it has impacted business and society. It concludes by noting how e-commerce will continue to propagate through commercial activities and be shaped by emerging technologies.
laudon-traver_ec10_ppt_ch01.ppt
- 1. E-commerce 2014 Kenneth C. Laudon Carol Guercio Traver business. technology. society. tenth edition Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
- 2. Chapter 1 The Revolution Is Just Beginning Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall
- 3. Class Discussion Pinterest: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Have you used Pinterest or any other content curation sites? What are your main interests? Have you purchased anything based on a pin or board on Pinterest or any other curation site? Why do Pinterest links drive more purchasing than Facebook links? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-3
- 4. E-commerce Trends 2013–2014 Expansion of social, local, and mobile e-commerce Mobile platform begins to rival PC platform Continued growth of cloud computing Explosive growth in “Big Data” E-books gain wide acceptance Continued growth of user-generated content Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-4
- 5. The First 30 Seconds First 17 years of e-commerce Just the beginning Rapid growth and change Technologies continue to evolve at exponential rates Disruptive business change New opportunities Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-5
- 6. What Is E-commerce? Use of Internet, Web and mobile apps to transact business More formally: Digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals Commercial transactions include the exchange of money or value across organizational boundary, in exchange for goods, and services Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-6
- 7. E-commerce vs. E-business E-business: Digital enabling of transactions and processes within a firm, involving information systems under firm’s control E.g., Online inventory control Does not include commercial transactions involving an exchange of value across organizational boundaries Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-7
- 8. Why Study E-commerce? E-commerce technology is different, more powerful than previous technologies E-commerce brings fundamental changes to commerce Traditional commerce: Consumer as passive targets Mass-marketing driven Sales-force driven Fixed prices Information asymmetry Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-8
- 9. Eight Unique Features of E-commerce Technology 1. Ubiquity (available everywhere at all times) 1. Traditional commerce is about a market place 2. Ecommerce creates a marketspace that liberates the market from physical and time limitations 3. Ubiquity reduces transaction costs, costs of participating in the market 4. Reduces the cognitive energy, mental effort to accomplish a task 2. Global Reach is accomplished by ecommerce 1. Reach is measured by the number of customers 3. Universal standards 1. Lowers market entry cost, enables easy price discovery, and network externalities benefit consumers because everyone uses the same technology 2. Universal Standards such as XML, HTML, helps to integrate, aggregate, and summarize information. 3. https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/palgrave/network.html Copyrigh © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-9
- 10. Eight Unique Features of E-commerce Technology 4. Ecommerce enables Information Richness, amount of detail contained in a piece of textual, graphic, audio, or video information 5. Interactivity dialog that occurs between a human being and a computer program 6. Information Density 1. Amount and quality of information available to consumers and merchants alike 1. Price transparency 2. Cost transparency 3. Price discrimination 7. Personalization/Customization of products/services 8. Social technology 1. Users creating and sharing content on the web Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-10
- 11. Web 2.0 User-centered applications and social media technologies User-generated content and communication Highly interactive, social communities Large audiences; yet mostly unproven business models Examples: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Wikipedia, Tumblr, twitter, Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-11
- 12. Types of E-commerce Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Business-to-Business (B2B) Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) Social e-commerce (Facebook Commerce) Mobile e-commerce (M-commerce) Local e-commerce based on customer geographic location Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-12
- 13. The Growth of B2C E-commerce Figure 1.3, Page 20 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall SOURCE: Based on data from eMarketer, Inc., 2013a; authors’ estimates. Slide 1-13
- 14. The Growth of B2B E-commerce Figure 1.4, Page 21 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall SOURCE: Based on data from U.S. Census Bureau, 2013; authors’ estimates. Slide 1-14
- 15. The Internet Worldwide network of computer networks built on common standards Created in late 1960s Services include the Web, e-mail, file transfers, and so on Can measure growth by number of Internet hosts with domain names Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-15
- 16. The Web Most popular Internet service Developed in early 1990s Provides access to Web pages HTML documents that may include text, graphics, animations, music, videos Web content has grown exponentially Google reports 30 trillion unique URLs; 120 billion Web pages indexed Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-16
- 17. The Mobile Platform Most recent development in Internet infrastructure Enables access to the Internet via wireless networks or cell-phone service Mobile devices include Tablets Smartphones Ultra-lightweight laptops Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-17
- 18. Insight on Technology: Class Discussion Will Apps Make the Web Irrelevant? What are the advantages and disadvantages of apps, compared with Web sites, for mobile users? http://www.hswsolutions.com/services/mobile-web-development/mobile-website-vs-apps/ What are the benefits of apps for content owners and creators? Will apps eventually make the Web irrelevant? Why or why not? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-18
- 19. Origins and Growth of E-commerce Precursors: Baxter Healthcare Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) French Minitel (1980s videotex system) None had functionality of Internet 1995: Beginning of e-commerce First sales of banner advertisements E-commerce fastest growing form of commerce in United States Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-19
- 20. E-commerce: A Brief History 1995–2000: Invention Key concepts developed Limited bandwidth and media to accommodate complex products Static web pages Euphoric visions of disintermediation Friction-free commerce Lowered search costs, disintermediation, price transparency, elimination of unfair competitive advantage First-mover advantages Network profits Dot-com crash of 2000 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-20
- 21. E-commerce: A Brief History (cont.) 2001–2006: Consolidation Emphasis on business-driven approach Traditional large firms expand presence Start-up financing shrinks up More complex products and services sold Growth of search engine advertising Business Web presences expand to include e-mail, display and search advertising, and limited community feedback features Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-21
- 22. E-commerce: A Brief History (cont.) 2007–Present: Reinvention Rapid growth of: Online social networks Mobile platform Local commerce Entertainment content develops as source of revenues Transformation of marketing Coordinated marketing on social, mobile, local platforms Analytic technologies Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-22
- 23. Insight on Business: Class Discussion Start-up Boot Camp Why do you think investors today are still interested in investing in start-ups? What are the benefits of investing in a company that is a graduate of a Y Combinator boot camp? https://www.ycombinator.com/about/ Is an incubator the best solution for start-ups to find funding? Why or why not? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-23
- 24. Assessing E-commerce Many early visions not fulfilled Friction-free commerce not fully realized Online Prices not always the lowest due to shipping Consumers less price sensitive Considerable online price dispersion Some intermediaries disappear but others emerge (Yahoo, Amazon, hotels.com, PayPal, Travelocity, etc) Perfect competition Information asymmetries persist First mover advantages Fast-followers often overtake first movers Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-24
- 25. Predictions for the Future Technology will propagate through all commercial activity Large, traditional companies will continue to play dominant role, consolidating audiences Start-up ventures can still attract large audiences in non- dominated arenas Integrated online/offline companies will experience more growth than purely online companies Additional factors: Increased regulation and control Cost of energy Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-25
- 26. Understanding E-commerce: Organizing Themes Technology: Digital computing and communications technology is integral to ecommerce (cloud computing, mobile devices, datamining, networks and Wi-Fi, etc) Business: New technologies present businesses with new ways of organizing production and transacting business Society: Ecommerce has raised issues of Intellectual property, individual privacy, public welfare policy Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-26
- 27. The Internet and the Evolution of Corporate Computing Figure 1.11, Page 41 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-27
- 28. Insight on Society: Class Discussion Facebook and the Age of Privacy Why are social network sites interested in collecting user information? What types of privacy invasion are described in the case? Which is the most privacy-invading, and why? Is e-commerce any different than traditional markets with respect to privacy? Don’t merchants always want to know their customer? How do you protect your privacy on the Web? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-28
- 29. Academic Disciplines Concerned with E-commerce Technical approach Computer science Management science Information systems Behavioral approach Information systems Economics Marketing Management Finance/accounting Sociology Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Slide 1-29
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