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Business
News via the Value Framework™ Lenses
Management Perspective
by
Mitchell Levy, Author, E-Volve-or-Die.com, Author,
the Value Framework™
Executive
Producer, VMS3.info
VMS3.info News
Supply Chain Management: The New CRM?
The
hype and hope of the early CRM days are fading, and a new realism is setting in.
As the dust settles, supply chain automation is rising to prominence as a way
to reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction and improve the bottom line...
Microsoft, HP Team for $50M .NET Push
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard each will spend $25 million during the next two-and-a-half
years in an effort to foster more widespread adoption of the .NET Web services
initiative among e-businesses...
The Web Services Magic Act
Web services is a concept
that has potential to transform enterprises in a big way, streamlining the way
departments within a company interact as well as how a company serves its customers
and does business with other organizations. But considerable challenges must be
met before that promise can be fully realized...
The Trouble with Sony Ericsson
What at first glance appeared
to be a marriage made in wireless technology heaven has proven to be a troubled
union, yet industry rumblings that Sony Ericsson may not survive could be overstating
the situation...
Case Studies: Digital Do-Overs
The buzz over B2B
has faded but the need for improving business processes using Web technology hasn't.
Below are four companies that are profiting from a technology overhaul. Who's Making Money in Wireless?
While they may be hard to find, there are winners amid the wireless industry's
general carnage. While none of the major players in handsets is doing as well
as two or three years ago, Datacomm Research president Ira Brodsky said Qualcomm
is looking strong, due to the rise in popularity of its CDMA2000 technology...
Can Google Do Big Business?
Founded in September 1998,
Google is at least three years younger than most of its search engine competitors
but already has surpassed its rivals in terms of popularity. However, as scores
of failed dot-coms can attest, big crowds do not always mean big money. Will Google's
heavy traffic translate into long-term business success?...
An
Online Success for Lands' End
WHEN Lands' End started selling custom-made
pants on its Web site last October, even analysts who follow the business closely
had trouble predicting the outcome, since no major merchant had tried anything
like it. Now, after nearly a year of online tailoring, Lands' End has released
results that exceed the expectations of even the most optimistic executives. Bill
Bass, who led the Lands' End Custom effort and is senior vice president of e-commerce
and international sales, said 40 percent of all chino and jeans sales on the company's
Web site were now custom orders.
Yahoo
enters game rental arena
rental market is emerging for computer games
that could drive down their cost for Internet users, open a new market for gaming
companies, and give new life to games issued years ago. MODEL:
PARTICIPANTS Who's Getting
Rich on the Internet?
Despite all the reports of bankruptcies and losses,
some companies are doing just fine on the Internet. While analysts have been saying
multichannel retailers are most likely to succeed in the future, a growing number
of pure-play dot-coms also are posting profits...
Warner Bros.
Puts Movie Downloads to the Test
It's somehow appropriate that the first
true test in online movie downloads comes from a company synonymous to the Internet
-- AOL Time Warner (Quote, Company Info). Time Warner, with its vast movie and
music holdings, was infused with "new media" savvy when it merged with
America Online last year (if not the profits each expected). Forbes.com
Offers Money Back
Last week, Forbes.com announced the first money-back
guarantee for online advertising results. Citing the fact that the Internet is
the "most measurable ad medium, both for direct response and branding,"
the company promises a "statistically significant increase in [at least]
one of four Dynamic Logic-measured brand metrics." If not achieved, Forbes.com
will return the advertisers' fees.
Bringing Foreign Currency Exchanges Into The 21st Century
Foreign currency exchanges--amounting to $3 trillion in transactions a day--used
to be a two-day-minimum process that was loaded with inefficiencies and risks
for the financial institutions conducting the transactions. But Monday marked
the first day of a new system designed to make it a real-time process and eliminate
the risk of bad trades. Ten
Choices Critical to the Internet's Success
How did technologists, government
officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business
model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century? A series
of decisions proved critical - choices that helped turn data transport into a
commodity business and put the power in users' hands...
Is Apple's Innovation Only Skin-Deep?
Apple is well known
for bringing new styles and form factors to the world of computing, but is the
fruit inside as tasty as the shiny Apple exterior might imply? Experts said the
answer is yes, although the company still needs to sell its story more effectively
to corporate markets...
STRATEGY: MANAGED The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective Web Sites
"Have it your way," long the mantra
of fast-food giant Burger King, may be the key to better e-commerce, according
to Virginia Tech computer science researcher Naren Ramakrishnan. Highly effective
Web sites are highly "personable," Ramakrishnan claimed in a new paper
on the topic.
Ricochet Bounces
Back with New Business Plan
Nearly two years ago on the same day, two
companies with compelling technologies recorded momentous passages in their histories.
Some prognosticators believed that day marked the emergence of a mobile Internet
industry, but that prediction was ahead of its time...
Online B2B
Surge May Herald Overall Recovery
Use of the Internet to conduct business-to-business
(B2B) transactions grew substantially in the second quarter, possibly signaling
the early stages of economic recovery, according to a report from Forrester Research
and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)...
Has the Kingdom
of Disney Lost its Magic?
The Walt Disney Company is suffering these days,
with sagging revenues, declining theme park attendance, and poor ratings for its
ABC network. Why is it so hard for Disney to keep up its once golden reputation,
and what lies ahead for the company and CEO Michael Eisner? Wharton faculty and
other experts point to a number of troublesome issues facing Disney, including
a weak economy, some unhappy board members and the fickle, high-stakes entertainment
business.
Does E-Commerce Need a Fiercer Watchdog?
The online fraud-fighting field is a crowded one, with a variety of
commercial
and nonprofit organizations involved in educating consumers,
setting e-commerce
standards for e-tailers and releasing software
designed to nab fraudsters.
Even so, the fight against fraud often seems
like a losing battle...
STRATEGY: EVOLVED Bertelsmann
may dump Web units
The German media group is looking to sell or shut
its book business Bol.com and pull the plug on Napster in a clamp-down on loss-making
ventures, sources close to the company say.
Dell
Receives Walking Papers From Cisco
Cisco Systems plans to deauthorize
Dell Computer as a reseller
partner as of Sept. 27, both companies said.
ASPs: Let's shrink again like we did last summer
The ranks of prominent, independent application service providers (ASPs) have
once again shrunk as ASP industry consolidation continues to take hold
Dot-Com Redeems Its Good Name
About a year ago, even
true dot-coms were distancing themselves from the Internet label. But as e-commerce
enjoys a somewhat tempered revival, the dot-com is no longer a pariah. In fact,
some analysts say the name may help consumers distinguish pure-play Internet firms
from their multichannel counterparts...
Meet the E-Commerce Gurus
In the post-boom era of e-commerce,
the gurus whose ideas and actions set the bar and tone for the industry may seem
familiar. Although yesteryear's fast-growth mantra has been replaced by a different
chant -- profits, profits! -- first-wave icons like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Meg
Whitman of eBay are still leading the way...
About
the Author: Mitchell
Levy, is President and CEO of ECnow.com (http://ecnow.com),
an e-commerce management consulting company helping individuals and corporations
transition from the industrial age to the Internet age through strategy, marketing,
and off-the-shelf and customized on-line and on-ground training. He is the author
of E-Volve-or-Die.com (http://e-volve-or-die.com),
author of the Value Framework™
(http://ecnow.com/value), Executive Producer
of VMS3.info (http://VMS3.info), the Founder and
Program Consultant of the premier San Jose State E-Commerce Management Certificate
Program (http://ecmtraining.com/sjsu),
Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall, and Chairman of the Pay-per-Performance PR
Agency Media Attention Now TM (http://ecnow.com/mediaattention),
the on-line learning content production company Transition Learning (http://transitionlearning.com)
and the CEO Networking organization CEOnetworking (http://ceonetworking.com).
Mitchell was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 of which he managed the
e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. Mitchell is a popular
speaker, lecturing on ECM issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Read more about Mr. Levy: http://ecnow.com/ml_bio.htm
Public speaking appearances I've given: http://ecnow.com/speaking.htm
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