Anwar U Azim

Network externalities are important in eBusiness standard wars because the eBusiness standard becomes more valuable for the overall industry as the number of connected entities grows. This growth also means that […]

True because information goods are very costly to produce the first unit, and the marginal cost is almost nothing. The main cost is the fixed cost, and the marginal cost is very negligible.

• Operational level measures: website traffic, number of visitors, Conversion rate, number of page viewed, Time spend on the website
• Operations: Timely delivery, Number of returns, Lead time

a) They form exclusive relation with the content creators, so the content they have is not available to anyone else.
b) It’s very hard to distribute the content for the producers, so Hulu or Netflix take care of […]

2. Sealed bid first price auction

5. All of the above

I enjoyed the course. Some key things I learned: Bull-whip effect is the supply chain, importance of standardization, how complicated online grocery industry is, and about the green supply chain.

I enjoyed the course. Some key things I learned: Bull-whip effect is the supply chain, importance of standardization, how complicated online grocery industry is, and about the green supply chain.

False. You want to diversify your risk because you want to have different suppliers so you are constraint to one particular area. Also, you want to have some closer suppliers so you get more product quickly if the […]

False because it’s not environmentally friendly to make or get rid of the artificial Christmas trees.

Just a reminder about marking me down for going to the Fox IT Awards on April 24, 2012.
Thank you Professor.

I learned how to choose suppliers. Business has to pick far a way suppliers to save money, but it has to consider the time to get the products on hand. Therefore, one can’t depend only on far a way supplier. In […]

I learned that we still have to wait quite a long time to see online grocery to become more popular. Like others said, I also think that online grocery business model works best for cities. People in suburb don’t […]

It depends how they handle the situation down the road. As of now, I am not interested in buying an Apple product. However, I wouldn’t buy another company’s laptop if I were to buy a laptop now. I am big fan of […]

In this week I learned that doing business ethically is not only makes the companies image better in the industry, it also saves money. In additional, practicing environment friendly business operations can save […]

In week 9 the most important thing I learned was that with the increasing complexity of supply chain management standardization becomes more and more important. It’s hard doing business without any standards. More […]

Network externalities are important in eBusiness standard wars because the eBusiness standard becomes more valuable for the overall industry as the number of connected entities grows. This growth also means that […]

There is very little cost to no cost involved in producing additional units. Therefore, you can choose to give a way information goods and ask buyers to pay whatever they feel like. This way you can do free […]

Information system / technology helps company to save lots of data which definitely reduces the use of paper. Also, they can keep closer relationship with their suppliers in order to make sure that their suppliers […]

Green Distribution: Few year back when the gas prices sky-rocketed, I remember lots of milk companies decided to change the shape of their gallons in order to reduce required stocking space for each gallons, which […]