Surveys indicate that many E-Business efforts either fail or disrupt the basic business processes and transactions. E-Business is sometimes not aligned with the business or IT. Vague vision statements are not translated into specific actions related to E- Business. It is because of these factors that Transform Your Business into e was written. The book covers E-Business from the review of the business at the start to expanding E-Business after it is live.

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There are four critical areas that today's ecommerce sellers struggle with in growing their businesses - managing inventory relying on debt; understanding their financial data; and maintaining focus. Cyndi Thomason has taken the core concepts of the Profit First methodology created by Mike Michalowicz and customized them to ecommerce.

E-business occurs when a company has established critical business procedures and activities to support e-commerce transactions. Using this definition, e-commerce is part of e-business--a company needs e-commerce to implement e-business. Utilizing e-commerce, however, does not mean that a company has transformed into an e-business. E-business is implemented only when a company changes its internal procedures to take advantage of the e-commerce technologies. Interest in the evolution ("e-volution") of e-commerce into e-business is a growth field. With the early November announcement that GM and Ford were forming online marketplaces for their suppliers, they placed themselves at the center of new e-business ecosystems that will transform their entire way of doing business. Many firms are increasingly discovering opportunities to move away from simply selling products on the Internet to being able to reinvent their conventional supply chains (as in the auto makers' case) and to being able to offer custom-built products (as Dell Computers does now).

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Read this book and you'll not only understand WHY e-Business is vital to the continuing success of your organization but also HOW you can incorporate it into your business. Four key questions are asked within Making the e-Business Transformation: - How do you transform your existing business into an e-business? How do you go about introducing e-business into your Company? - What are the key enabling technologies? - What tools are needed to effectively manage domain and process knowledge? e-Business and e-Commerce is a revolution driven by IT. While computers and computer networks have been around for the last 50 years, it is only in the last five that they have found their way into everyday life. This book shows you how to harness the power of the new technologies to transform your business into an e-business company which will succeed in the e-commerce economy.

Consequently, Digital Transformation offers executives an opportunity to learn directly from "the source" how to become a fully Internet-enabled organization."--BOOK JACKET.