Cannibalization via Internet

Cannibalization of Products or Services via Internet Markets
by Kurt Rodenhizer, MS, MBA, June, 2007

Online marketing and retail refers the use of the Internet to expose customers to a company’s products and to create opportunities to sell products electronically from the consumer’s personal computers. The change in buying behavior is characterized by the terms “online” vs. “bricks-and-mortar” retailing.

EDI before and after

EDI implementation before and after the Internet
by Kurt Rodenhizer, MS, MBA, June, 2007

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer-to-computer exchange of data transmitted in accordance to some type of standards, from one computer application to another. EDI systems must be created so that the interchange follows both national and international standards. This transfer of business transaction data and typically involves the automated purchase of goods and services.

Privacy Issues: eBusiness

Privacy Issues Surrounding eBusiness Procedures
by Kurt Rodenhizer, MS, MBA, June, 2007

The topic of privacy as it pertains to online communications and e-Business can focus in two areas: 1) Internet based B2C activity or 2) Employee rights vs employer privileges to information access. This key concept review will focus on the latter.

Google Ecosystem

Building an ecosystem: the Google Model Business-to-Consumer
by Kurt Rodenhizer, MS, MBA, June, 2007e

Bears and Stearns define an ecosystem as a community interacting as a functional unit which creates a situation where all parties benefit. The Google Ecosystem has been the subject of much debate because Google’s success has been hard to ignore. Their ecosystem relates to the partners and affiliations that they have developed–. especially when the group as a whole has an impact on people’s lives.