SYS3280

Electronic commerce systems

C Butler

6 points - 3 hours per week - Second semester - Caulfield - Prerequisites: SYS2001 or SYS3002 - Prohibitions: SYS4280, IMS5007

Objectives On completion of this subject, students will know the basic principles of electronic commerce, and will have developed an understanding of its potential and ramifications for business. They will understand the issues involved in selecting appropriate strategies for developing and implementing electronic commerce solutions, and have knowledge of the technologies required to make electronic commerce viable.

Synopsis The subject provides a study of the theory and nature of Electronic Commerce, its policy and management issues, and the particular problems of implementing and managing multi-party electronic systems. Specific topics will include: electronic commerce definitions and taxonomies; key business issues (such as disintermediation, the marketspace, security, and mass customisation); new organisational forms. Underlying technologies: broadband communications, and the role and relationships of the Internet, Intranet, Extranet, and World Wide Web. Electronic commerce and supply chain management. Electronic commerce and business system integration. Key technologies and applications: product numbering/bar-coding; Electronic Data Interchange/Quick Response; Internet EDI; electronic payment systems. Electronic commerce in action: banking, retailing, manufacturing, online publishing.

Assessment Examination: 50% - Assignment: 30% - Syndicate work: 20%

Prescribed texts

Kalakota R and Whinston A B Electronic commerce: A manager's guide Addison-Wesley, 1997
Keen P G W and Balance C On-line profits: A manager's guide to electronic commerce Harvard Business School, 1997

Recommended texts

Kalakota R and Whinston A B Frontiers of electronic commerce Addison-Wesley, 1996
Keen P G W and Cummins J M Networks in action Wadsworth, 1994
Neumann S Strategic information systems: Competition through information technologies Macmillan, 1994
Tapscott D Digital economy, McGraw-Hill, 1996

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