Successful e-business

E business is a term used to describe business run on the internet,or utilizing internet technologies to improve the productivity or profitability of a business. in most contexts e business refers exclusively to Internet busniesses. The most common implementation of e businesses is as an additional, or in some cases primary, storefront. By selling products and services online, an e businesses is a ble to reach much wider consumer base then an brick-and-mortar store could ever hope for. This function of e business is referred to as ecommerce, and the terms areoccasionally used interchangeably. An e business may also use the internet to acquire whole sale products or supplies for in house production. This fact of e business is sometiomes reffered to as e-procurement, and may offer busnesses the opportunity to cut their cost dramaticall. Even many e busniesses which operate witout an electronic storefront now use e-procurement a s a way to better track and manage their purchasing.

Summary

This is the summerisation of e business researched called "The impact of e business on land based retail florists" in Boston, USA. The rapid transfornmation of florist business model, influendes by the power of e commerce usine the internettools, has brought a competative challenge to the traditional florist busniess owners in the Boston areas as well as other parts of the country on 2000. The real threat to land -based florist owners is attributed to the increases volume of the in ternet usage by flower shoppers and , thereby passing the land-based florist. This new business environmetn and its consequent threat to traditinal florists is expected to evolve a new busniess process integration of existiong land based florist with the growing ebusiness networks of flower purchase and thus reducing the growing threat of competative disadvantage of tradional florist busness. The only diffrenece is to change the way the business process needs to be tyransformed to satisfy the new demand structure of flower consumers. In oeder to understand the new dmenad sturcture of comsumers and its change in competative behaviour we have to check on e business.

These are the basic poits to summarise this survay:

1. To understand the level of the threats to traditional florist busninesses inthe face of increasing trends for flower purchase over the internet.
2. To explore the trends of transformation of exixting traditional florist concerning the integration of their businesses in to the e busniess model.
3. To make comprehensive assessment of th ebusiness successes and challenges for the current florist who participate in the e-businesses model as well as former florist who participated in the e business model and compared with those not networked yet.
4. Making recomendation for the existing non-networked florists for possible transformation based on the assessment.
5. To explore further development of research possibilities in the area of business transformation for florist businesses in general improve their business models and thus reduce the level of growing threats from e-business technologies.                                                

Critical Thinking

As stated earlier, some local land-based retail flower shop owners in Boston have closed their doors for busniess, while some other local land based retail flower shop owners, in the same geographical area, have kept their business doors open in light of the expansion of e-business which has become an additonal purchase option channel for local flower consumers. The impact of e-business as an additional purchase option channel in the floral industries might have long term positive or negative results on local land bases retail floral company operations, survival of reconfiguraion. Some retail florist might need advice in ways will support their survivability through effective market positionaing and differentiation. At the sam time, some retail florist might stand to benefit from useful techniques regarding competitive advantage.

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