Other postponed IT programs include customer relationship management (25 percent), sales-force automation (22 percent), business-to-business e-commerce (18 percent) and business-to-consumer e-commerce (15 percent).
For starters, the big money is not in consumer shopping but in business-to-business commerce.
So audience ought to work in business-to-business e-commerce as well, right?
But the glitter of e-tailing is fool's gold compared to cold hard cost savings through B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce.
In addition to maintaining the International Register, the MoW programme works to raise awareness of documentary heritage and to alert governments, the general public, business and commerce to preservation needs.
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He quit his job as director of the business-to-business segment at e-commerce software maker Open Market to launch PurchasingCenter, warning his wife to expect lean months with no salary.
BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.
There will be better automatic translation, but in a lot of business-to-business e-commerce, language won't be very important.
Business-to-business e-commerce, or e-business, is a different story.
But there may be some maneuvering room left for newcomers in business to consumer e-commerce, he adds.
Back when WorldCom and Enron were blowing up, I had shared a business advisory group to the Commerce and Energy committee.
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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.
In other words, despite everything the dot-coms did to screw up the business, the e-commerce market is continuing to cook along, meeting all of the most optimistic predictions for explosive growth.
If sports enthusiasts don't have reliable clairvoyance when it comes to athletic success, why should we expect lawyers mostly bereft of any business experience to divine the future of commerce?
By blurring the lines between enterprise technology and communities, business networks eliminate the barriers to commerce, and frankly, make it more simple and effective.
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According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 70% of Asian CEOs expect e-commerce to recast their business.
Bartlett's speaking agent, Leading Authorities, posted video of one recent speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce online to drum up business.
Those religious attitudes, however, are viewed by some Indian business leaders as a major hindrance to commerce.
There is no doubt that Leeds is once again confident about itself, but for a city that has already seen two major industries disappear, the hope must be that the e-commerce business is here to stay.
According to the source, during Peruvian Chamber of Commerce or other business meetings in which both men have been called to participate, they always send non-family executives to represent them.
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Finding out what your business rivals are up to is as old as commerce itself.
Just as consumers tap into personal networks like Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.com to learn, share and shop better, innovative SMEs are with increasing frequency leveraging business networks to better manage their trading relationships and commerce activities.
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Hard numbers are hard to come by because the company doesn't break out its e-commerce business, but the site is in the top ten in terms of visitors to e-tail sites, and its catalog is always expanding.
The Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency has agreed to collaborate with Supplier Connection.
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That deal may furnish Lawson with the right contacts to develop its own e-commerce business.
Liu came to South Africa a decade ago with other members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to exploit business opportunities.
In recent quarters, we have also been deemphasizing our retail stores in order to focus on our e-commerce business and enhance our operational strength and customer service capabilities.
TellMe has opted for an advertising-supported business model, but also intends to charge e-commerce sites for building and maintaining their voice services and it wants to take a cut on every purchase that is made through its system.
In order for antitrust laws to apply, a business must be engaged in interstate commerce.
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