Assignment: Electronic Commerce Systems- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of E-commerce Websites
Length Maximum 2500 words excluding appendix, references and/or footnotes
Task description
You are required to write a report on the critical evaluation of six given Websites in three different categories of business models for a business manager.
Objectives
• You should determine and explain the evaluation criteria, including
o at least five success factors and/or business objectives, and
o indicators for the success factors and business objectives such as website features, contents, functions, objects, etc.
For example, online product sale is an objective of many e-commerce Websites, and for this objective, three basic objects/functions are needed: catalogue, shopping cart and transaction processing function. Interactivity is an example of success factors. You should determine the criteria based on the principles and guidelines for effective e-commerce Websites discussed in this unit and gained from your own research. While some criteria are applicable for all e-commerce websites, others may only be applicable for some categories of the sites. You should discuss the difference of the criteria in terms of their application scope. You should also determine assessment methods. For the online sale objective, for example, you may assess if all the three objects/functions are available and evaluate the quality of each in terms of, for example, completeness, appropriateness/effectiveness, usability, etc. (refer to the ‘three basic functions' in Topic 3).
• You should evaluate the Websites according to the determined criteria by comparing the sites in the same category, and between different categories. You should use tables for the comparison.
• You should identify major strengths and weaknesses of each site based on the above evaluation, and provide recommendations/solutions to improve their performance. Your recommendations/solutions should be actionable or operable.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Assignment-eComerrce.rar