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Group 3 //Ojok Ambross 10/DICT/DAY/020//

//Mugwanya Herbert 10/DICT/DAY/002// //Mugume Derrick 10/DICT/DAY/004//

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=Citing sources and references, explain what you think is the definite definition of the term 'E-commerce' =

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: E-commerce is the use of electronic communications and digital information processing technology in business transactions to create, transform, and redefine relationships for value creation between or among organizations, and between organizations and individualsit enables a business concern or individual to reach the global market. It caters to the demands of both the national and the international market, as your business activities are no longer restricted by geographical boundaries. With the help of electronic commerce, even small enterprises can access the global market for selling and purchasing products and services. Even time restrictions are nonexistent while conducting businesses, as e-commerce empowers one to execute business transactions 24 hours a day and even on holidays and weekends. This in turn significantly increases sales and profit. =====

==What do you think is the major difference between E-commerce and E-business? ==


 * ===== While the words Commerce and Business don't have much difference in English and in fact are largely interchangeable as nouns describing organized profit-seeking activity, there is a difference between eCommerce and eBusiness. The difference is quite artificial, but different terms do carry different meanings. The first wave of thinking about electronic business was a reaction to the success of Amazon and Dell in selling products over the Internet. Electronic business transactions involving money are "eCommerce" activities. However, there is much more to eBusiness than selling products: what about marketing, procurement and customer education? Even to sell on-line successfully, much more is required than merely having a website that accepts credit cards. =====

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Ebusiness goes far beyond ecommerce or buying and selling over the Internet, and deep into the processes and cultures of an enterprise. It is the powerful business environment that is created when you connect critical business systems directly to customers, employees, vendors, and business partners, using Intranets, Extranets, ecommerce technologies, collaborative applications, and the Web. Dell Computer gets a lot of attention as a pioneering ebusiness today and is the best example of this form of business. It sells $ 15m worth of computers from its websites each day. The company has created a ‘fully integrated value chain ’ – a three-way information partnership with its suppliers and customers by treating them as collaborators who together find ways of improving efficiency across the entire chain of supply and demand. Dell's suppliers have real-time access to information about its orders. Through its corporate extranet, they can organize their production and delivery to ensure that their customer always has just enough of the right parts to keep the production line moving smoothly. By plugging its suppliers directly into the customer database, Dell has ensured that they will instantly know about changes in their demand. Similarly, by allowing entry to customers into its supply chain via its website, Dell enables them to track the progress of their orders from the factory to their doorstep. Successful new-businesses can emerge from nowhere. ===== ||
 * ===== In the past the rules of business were simple – Beat the competition, squeeze your suppliers and keep your customers in the dark. But with increased collaboration in the completely networked world, uncertainties arise. Nobody can predict how the customer with all the perfect market information available at his disposal will respond to the rapidly shifting business alliances and federations or how companies will manage such customers. The need of the hour is a good strategy. Early ecommerce companies have used their understanding of the technology’s potential and the absence of any competition to steal a march and enter markets that would previously have been closed to them, but in future simply having a good business idea and being technologically smart might not be enough. The global giants, after taking a while to see the opportunity seem to have worked out how to adapt their multi-layered supply chains and diverse distribution channels and are finally getting into the race. Besides this, for successful implementation of ebusiness security is the key issue. Ebusiness security is very important as the transactions processed contains critical information. Read More on [|Ebusiness Security] ===== ||
 * ===== In the past the rules of business were simple – Beat the competition, squeeze your suppliers and keep your customers in the dark. But with increased collaboration in the completely networked world, uncertainties arise. Nobody can predict how the customer with all the perfect market information available at his disposal will respond to the rapidly shifting business alliances and federations or how companies will manage such customers. The need of the hour is a good strategy. Early ecommerce companies have used their understanding of the technology’s potential and the absence of any competition to steal a march and enter markets that would previously have been closed to them, but in future simply having a good business idea and being technologically smart might not be enough. The global giants, after taking a while to see the opportunity seem to have worked out how to adapt their multi-layered supply chains and diverse distribution channels and are finally getting into the race. Besides this, for successful implementation of ebusiness security is the key issue. Ebusiness security is very important as the transactions processed contains critical information. Read More on [|Ebusiness Security] ===== ||
 * ===== In the past the rules of business were simple – Beat the competition, squeeze your suppliers and keep your customers in the dark. But with increased collaboration in the completely networked world, uncertainties arise. Nobody can predict how the customer with all the perfect market information available at his disposal will respond to the rapidly shifting business alliances and federations or how companies will manage such customers. The need of the hour is a good strategy. Early ecommerce companies have used their understanding of the technology’s potential and the absence of any competition to steal a march and enter markets that would previously have been closed to them, but in future simply having a good business idea and being technologically smart might not be enough. The global giants, after taking a while to see the opportunity seem to have worked out how to adapt their multi-layered supply chains and diverse distribution channels and are finally getting into the race. Besides this, for successful implementation of ebusiness security is the key issue. Ebusiness security is very important as the transactions processed contains critical information. Read More on [|Ebusiness Security] ===== ||

==With reference to any e-commerce tool of your choice, (e.g quick response codes) explain how you think it could be effectively used to enhance transactions. ==

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Qr codes can also be a better track to the effectiveness of offline, print media by creating a tracking URL and embedding it in our Qr code hence making it an easier way of aggregating information about the performance of offline media efforts. =====

__INDIVIDUAL COURSE WORK__

**Task 1**

 Insert the following link < [|__www.__][|__**mobile**__][|__-__][|__**barcodes**__][|__.com__]> in your mobile phone's browser. Install the relevant barcode reading software depending on the model of your phone.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: justify;">Generate any bar or matrix tags (using __[]__ ) that you will place on any product of your choice. Embed relevant marketing details (This could be a link to a product's website, phone number, details about the product, text, link to video, audio description of the product...).

<span style="color: #009933; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: justify;">Design a mobile e-commerce website which advertises any business product of your choice (Consider all the qualities of a good e-commerce website as presented in class). Explain the marketing details here. Embed the qr code you have designed, any multimedia files, pictures etc about you product here.