E-Town, they say, will be a model not only of e-business but also of e-government, e-community, e-knowledge, and e-parks.
It would be a good idea to assign people within the company to deal specifically with e-business implementation and the replacing of outdated modes of e-business operations.
The potential is enormous, but governments will need committed leadership, a full understanding of e-business principles and a clear strategy for overcoming the barriers to change: the departmental rivalries, the hostility of unions, the fears of individuals and the sheer size of the thing.
Both firms are showing how big companies in a range of industries are likely to use the Internet to put themselves at the centre of new e-business ecosystems that will transform their entire way of doing business.
Don't overlook one of the greatest advantages of e-business: It allows a company to plan ahead.
Jack Buffington, director of e-business at Orion Auto in Englewood, Colo.
Forrester expects Britain and Germany to go into the same hyper-growth stage of e-business about two years after America, with Japan, France and Italy a further two years behind.
Q4 sales jump 22% on the strength of its e-book business, but earnings and 2013 outlook fall short of analyst expectations.
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There will be better automatic translation, but in a lot of business-to-business e-commerce, language won't be very important.
Mike Pope, director of the e-business solution program for Intel, agrees.
"Right before finals, we have to study at work because we are running out of time, " says Sachin Wadhawan, a director of solutions engineering at Convio, about himself and his classmates in the McCombs School of Business E.
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But I think that when we look back at the history of the e-book market one of the classic business school cases is going to be how stupid it was for publishers to sue Google.
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The Yankee Group, another technology consultancy, earlier this year questioned 250 large and medium-sized American companies across a broad range of industries about their views on e-business, and found that 58% of corporate decision makers considered the web to be important or very important to their business strategy.
The growing ubiquity of e-mail means that everyone in business, from lords of finance to programmers who dream in code, needs to write intelligently.
These are interested, actively shopping prospects, and anything less than 100% of abandoned shopping carts getting a reminder e-mail is criminal neglect of your business.
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The most recent iteration of the big-ticket package, Oracle's E-Business Suite, is a set of business applications designed to work with a single database.
Indeed, Mr Ellison boasts that his enthusiasm for being a chief executive has been rekindled by the power he gained as a result of deploying the e-business suite within Oracle and thus gaining better, more timely information on which to base decisions.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will be providing business mentoring services to a group of entrepreneurs working out of a business incubator called E-Space.
Even in the home of consumer sites such as ebay and eTrade, which steal the headlines and achieve dizzying valuations, e-business is the greater part of online transactions.
What is the value to your company of instituting a compliance regime that covers the business-critical process of e-discovery.
Since then, WikiLeaks has produced little beyond what hackers reportedly connected to Anonymous have given it: The Stratfor e-mail archive, which has proven to be of fairly little real value beyond illuminating some of the sleazier business practices of the private security industry, and most recently e-mails from inside the Syrian government.
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My nomination is Jeff Bezos, founder of the first e-commerce business to make a real splash, and still running Amazon 18 years on.
"Returns for cash on delivery are about seven to 10 times greater than online payments, " said Savitar Jagtiani, business head of e-commerce for Lebanon's Landmark Group.
In the 1990s, firms embraced technology religiously first because they feared that the millennium bug might trigger an apocalypse, then because they were afraid of losing out in e-business.
Oracle is retraining most of its salesforce in e-business technology and business practices in the hope that, now that they no longer have to haggle over contract terms, they can spend more time understanding the customer and the technology.
And it's not difficult to imagine the business-to-business uses of e-scheduling, like letting distributors arrange for manufacturers' deliveries at convenient times or allowing customers to book product-training classes online, or even enabling an administrative assistant to make plans for a temp to cover his weeklong vacation.
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Global Sources officials claim they operate one of the biggest e-commerce client bases in the world -- a business community of 192, 000 buyers and 80, 000 suppliers.
Once opened it forwards itself using the personal and business address books of e-mails so the spread is rapid.
Doing e-business means a greater number of customers, partners and suppliers, and even government regulators need unparalleled access to corporations' computer systems.
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