1 / 10

Assignment 2

Assignment 2. Unit 1 Business skills for e-commerce HND in Computing and Systems Development. Timeline. Outcome LO2. Understand the impact of e-Commerce

thomaspotts
Download Presentation

Assignment 2

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Assignment 2 Unit 1 Business skills for e-commerce HND in Computing and Systems Development

  2. Timeline

  3. Outcome LO2 • Understand the impact of e-Commerce • Consumer impact: empowered customers eg online sales, direct communication with customers, greater choice, lower prices, availability of new products; global markets; new marketing models; on-line advertising • Business impact: global business and consumer markets; issues eg challenge of new technology, security issues, impact and implications of dealing with customers on-line, creating new distribution channels, greater competition, challenge to monopoly power, retraining of staff, lower overheads, new selling chains; legislation

  4. Impacts • We covered these in lesson 5 • Consumer benefits and negatives • Business benefits and negatives • Conducted a debate on the topic,

  5. Assessment criteria 2.1Analyse the impact, including the risks, of introducing an e-Commerce system to an organisation 2.2Discuss the global impact of e-Commerce on society

  6. Assignment scenario • You are an e-commerce consultant • You have been commissioned by Business Matters (the UK's leading SME business magazine) to write an 800 word article about the impacts of e-commerce • They want the article to be illustrated and well referenced so that their readers can obtain more detail about the topics • The style should match that of articles on their web site

  7. Task LO 2.1 and 2.2 • Write an 800 word article about the impacts of e-commerce on a small business • You need to consider the benefits and disadvantages for both the business and its customers • Make sure you cover: • Global markets • Competition • Legislation • Growth

  8. M1 and M3 • M1: You have to research and reference all the material you are going to use in the article. This will be judged on the quality and relevance of the relevant material • M3: To achieve M3 you must produce documentation to the correct format for a magazine article. Correct terminology must be used, but explained if it is not common parlance. Paragraphs should be short with clear headings describing the content. Illustrations should relevant, placed near the appropriate text and be clearly labelled

  9. D3 • To achieve D3 then you have produce a concise article, covering a lot of facts in an unfamiliar format and style. You need to think about how best to transmit your ideas and facts in that style

  10. Hints • Lesson 5 has slides of advantages and disadvantages – use those as a basis • For illustrations look for charts on • e-commerce growth • revenue growth • reduced costs

More Related