Choosing who to wire to whom

Just as every company needs a telephone and business cards to do business, today every company needs a presence on the World Wide Web, if only to provide basic information to employees, vendors, customers, and investors. Before a company changes how it does business to accommodate the Internet, it s...

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Published in:Iron Age New Steel 2001-04, Vol.17 (4), p.18
Main Author: Pinkus, Allen L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
Application programming interface
Application service providers
Business to business commerce
Corporate planning
Customer services
Electronic data interchange
Employees
Enterprise resource planning
Extranets
Guidelines
Information systems
Internet
Internet service providers
Intranets
Inventory
Inventory control
Specialty products
Websites
World Wide Web
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Summary:Just as every company needs a telephone and business cards to do business, today every company needs a presence on the World Wide Web, if only to provide basic information to employees, vendors, customers, and investors. Before a company changes how it does business to accommodate the Internet, it should make sure that it understands its business processes. There are 4 approaches a company can take to using the Internet: 1. B2U (business to yourself), 2. extended B2U, 3. B2B (business to business), and 4. B2C (business to consumer). What all these approaches have in common is the need for a back-office "e-backbone" to execute all the functions from recording a sale to filling an order to processing payments automatically.
ISSN:1074-1690