ISC301 26-50

Because the rate of change and the level of uncertainty are expected to accelerate, organizations are

• unable to react quickly enough to threats and opportunities.
• operating under increasing pressures to produce more products, faster, and with fewer resources.
• making fewer decisions and/or decisions less frequently.
• considering less information when making decisions.

A large number of EC companies, especially e-tailing and B2B ones, failed from 1999 to 2005 for each of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• The companies lacked financial skills.
• The companies failed to register with search engines, such as Google.
• The companies failed to ensure they had sufficient inventory and a distribution setup to Meet initial demand.
• The companies had little marketing experience.

Intrabusiness EC is usually performed over intranets and/or .

• corporate portals
• mobile networks
• exchanges
• P2P networks

A business such as Apple Computers making online transactions with its trading partners is an example of:

• B2B
• B2C
• e-CRM
• EDI

Challenges that Boeing faced with its global collaboration for the design and assembly process of its new Dreamliner passenger plane included each of the following EXCEPT:

• Data management
• Information security
• Teams working across various time zones
• Lag time

Fundamentally, the success of the pure-play jewelry e-tailer Blue Nile was due to the company's use of Internet technologies to:

• go public
• provide quality ratings
• eliminate intermediaries
• offer lower prices than competitors

Traditional and electronic markets have three main functions, which include each of the following EXCEPT:

• transforming raw materials into finished products.
• matching buyers and sellers.
• facilitating the exchange of information, goods, services, and payments associated with market transactions.
• providing an institutional infrastructure, such as a legal and regulatory framework that enables the efficient functioning of the market.

Digital products have different cost curves than those of regular products because:

• in digitization, most of the costs are variable and fixed costs are low.
• in digitization, most of the costs are fixed, and variable costs are very low.
• in digitization, most of the costs are fixed, but variable costs are high.
• in digitization, all of the costs are variable.

The portion of an e-seller's business processes through which customers interact, including the seller's portal, electronic catalogs, a shopping cart, a search engine, and a payment gateway is referred to as the of the business.

• front end
• back end
• infrastructure
• intermediary

The major e-marketplaces are storefronts and Internet malls.

• B2B
• C2B
• B2B2C
• B2C