Foreword
Preface
About the authors
Acknowledgments
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Key terminology and evolution of e-business
PART II THE E-BUSINESS STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
2. Overview of the e-business strategy framework
3. External analysis: the impact of the Internet on the macro-environment and on the industry structure of e-business companies
4. Internal analysis: e-business competencies as sources of strengths and weaknesses
5. Strategy options in e-business markets
6. Sustaining a competitive advantage over time
7. Exploiting opportunities of new market spaces in e-business
8. Creating and capturing value through e-business strategies: the value-process framework
9. Choosing the appropriate strategy for the internal organisation of e-business activities
10. Choosing the appropriate strategy for interaction with suppliers
11. Choosing the appropriate e-business strategy for interacting with users
12. Moving from wired e-commerce to mobile e-commerce
PART III A ROADMAP FOR E-BUSINESS STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
13. A roadmap for e-business strategy implementation
PART IV CASE STUDIES
14. Building e-business competence through concepts and cases
A guide to the main focus of the case studies
Synopses of case studies
Cases
1. From A(pples) to Z(oom lenses): Extending the boundaries of multichannel retailing at Tesco.com
2. From e-banking to e-business at Nordea (Scandinavia): The world's biggest clicks-and-mortar bank
3. ING DIRECT: Rebel in the banking industry
4. Ducati (Italy) vs. Harley-Davidson (USA): Innovating business processes and managing value networks
5. Otis Elevator: Accelerating business transformation with IT
6. Business-to-business electronic commerce: Mondus.com - an e-marketplace for small and medium-sized enterprises
7. Covisint (A): The evolution of a B2B marketplace
8. IBX (Northern Europe): Expanding B2B ePurchasing from indirect to direct goods and services
9. eBay customer support outsourcing
10. The exploration and production enterprise portal of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group
11. e-Government in Estonia: Establishing the world's leading infromation society
12. Online file-sharing: The music industry's paradigm shift
13. openBC vs. StayFriends: Germany's biggest Internet-based social networking sites
14. Spreadshirt: Mass customizaton on the Internet
15. Second Life: Mercedes-Benz enters the Metaverse
16. Mobile phone meets digital music at Sony BMG
17. NTT DoCoMo (Japan): Moving from a mobile phone operator to a lifestyle service provider
18. YOC AG: Integrating the mobile phone into the marketing mix
19. Paybox.net (Germany): A mobile payment service.
Index
