Questions
1. What is EC, and what different approaches to competing in cyberspace do companies use??
2. What are the primary forms of e-government? Provide examples for each.?
3. Compare and contrast the click-only and the bricks-and clicks approaches to conducting business online.?
4. Describe the effects of disintermediation.?
5. Describe social commerce and explain how companies can leverage consumers' social networks.?
6. Describe the benefits and drawbacks of e-tailing.?
7. What is the online consumer's hierarchy of needs, and why is it important for e-tailers??
8. Describe the differences between SEO, search marketing, and sponsored search.?
9. Describe m-commerce and explain how it is different from regular EC.?
10. What is showrooming, and how has it affected offline retailers??
11. Compare and contrast online banking and online brokerage.?
12. How does taxation pose a threat to EC??
13. How does net neutrality pose a threat to EC?
Part-2
1. What are virtual teams, and how do they help to improve an organization's capabilities??
2. What are mashups? How do they enable social media applications??
3. What capabilities will define the web of the future??
4. How can social software help harness the wisdom of the crowd??
5. Why is using social media an important factor for attracting and retaining employees??
6. How can social software enhance communication??
7. How can social bookmarking and social cataloging help in an organization's knowledge management efforts??
8. What is a wiki? Why would an organization want to implement a wiki??
9. Explain what is meant by crowdsourcing and how the web is enabling this form of collaboration.?
10. How can organizations use social networking to connect with their customers??
11. Why is organizational culture an important factor in enterprise-oriented social media initiatives??
12. Why can social media be both a blessing and a threat for organizations??
13. How can organizations plan for social media disasters?
Part-3
1. How can a continuous planning process help businesses respond to external threats and opportunities??
2. Describe the differences between entities, tables, rows, and attributes in a database.?
3. What is the importance of master data management??
4. What are the advantages of a DBMS??
5. Explain the differences between OLAP and OLTP.?
6. How can visual analytics be used to improve decision making??
7. Describe how OLAP enables a user to conduct multidimensional queries.?
8. Explain the difference between clustering and classification.?
9. What is the relationship between measures and dimensions??
10. Describe and give examples of two types of web mining.?
11. What is a website's stickiness, and why is it important??
12. Explain the purpose of a model within a DSS.?
13. Describe four types of intelligent agents. How can they be used to benefit organizations??
14. What is a knowledge management system, and what types of technologies make up a comprehensive system??
15. What is the purpose of using layers in GIS applications?