E-business occurs when a company has established critical business procedures and activities to support e-commerce transactions. This book helps to implement e-business in 13 specific proven actions; implement e-business with reduced risk to your business; and, coordinate e-business implementation with current business.

Coordinate e-business implementation with current business. Use e-business as a means to renew and improve your current business. Motivate employees to participate in e-business. Achieve more flexible business processes. Deal with technical, vendor, process, and other e-business issues.This book answers questions such as: How do you implement e-business without tearing up your company? How do you define your new e-business processes and synchronize them with your current business? How and with what do you manage outsourcing in e-business? How do you measure your e-business implementation and results? How do you change your organization to be a spearhead for e-business? What is the best way to develop your e-business implementation strategy? How do you quickly gather data on the competition and your current business? and, How do you design new business activities that modify your current processes and define e-business?

Introduction. Your E-Business Implementation Roadmap. Action 1: Understand Your Business. Action 2: Select the Activities for E-Business. Action 3: Assess E-Business Trends and Competition. Action 4: Set Your Technology Direction for E-Business. Action 5: Collect Information for E-Business. Action 6: Analyze Information for E-Business. Define Your New E-Business Transactions and Workflow. Action 8: Define and Measure E-Business Success. Action 9: Develop Your E-Business Implementation Strategy. Action 10: Perform Your E-Business Marketing Activities. Action 11: Plan Your E-Business Implementation. Action 12: Execute Your E-Business Implementation. Action 13: Followup After Your E-Business Implementation. E-Business Implementation and Operations Outsourcing. Address Specific E-Business Implementation Issues.