Foundations of E-Commerce

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 经济与金融 大学或机构: Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学） 授课老师： Vijay Sethi

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/ntuecom

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In today’s digital landscape, companies do not have the luxury to treat IT as a mere support or enabler only. Building digital business models is increasingly becoming a pre-requisite to survive in the information economy. Digital strategies and technology platforms must become core to a business, supplementing and if needed even replacing the bricks and mortar of old economy.  This course addresses issues of how companies can move from “place to space” and compete in the digital economy. 

The course is built around the following three main themes: 

1. Internal Digital Transformation:  transforming the company’s products and processes. 
2. Customer Digital Transformation:  changing interactions with customers such that every touch-point has a digital component and leveraging customer data and information for gaining deep insights into consumer behavior and customer acquisition and retention.
3. Sustaining Digital Transformation:  digital strategies are more visible and thus prone to faster imitation.  Protecting a digital business model through networks, ecosystems and legal means is thus vital.

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Part 1 (Internal Digital Transformation)

Week 1 -  Digital Business Models:

• How can companies become more digital?  
  
• How can they build digital business models to supplant or strengthen their physical bricks-and-mortar models?  
  
• What are the essential components of an effective digital model?  
  
• What guidelines can a company follow to understand what parts of their existing business can benefit most from going digital?
  

Week 2 - Digital Products:

• How are digital goods different from physical goods?  
  
• What are the economics of digital goods and why do they pose pricing and distribution challenges?  
  
• How do digital goods create externalities?  
  
• What role do standards play in how digital goods can be differentiated and appropriate value?  
  
• Do traditional first-mover advantages still hold in the information economy
  
  
  

Part 2 (Customer Digital Transformation)

Week 3 - Online Consumer Experience:

• What kinds of online platforms can companies build?  
  
• What are the best practices related to web site design?  
  
• What social media experiences can brands leverage?  
  
• How can every touch point with the customer have a digital component? 
  
• How can companies leverage consumers as evangelists and brand ambassadors to become a channel and spread the word?
  

Week 4 - Personalization and Targeting:

• What is the “Internet of Things?”
  
• How can companies take advantage of ubiquitous data collection and repositories to do personalization and targeting?  
  
• What are the privacy issues involved in such data analytics? 
  
• What analytical methods are most applicable for different industries, including online sites, and can some of these methods be legally protected?
  
  
  

Part 3 (Sustaining Digital Transformation)

Week 5 - Networks and Platforms:

• Why are platforms critical in the digital space?  
  
• What are the characteristics of successful platforms?  
  
• What role do proprietary and open standards play in creating and expanding platforms?  
• What path and strategies can companies adopt to transform from nodes to networks to platforms to ecosystems?
  

Week 6 - Intellectual Property Rights:

• How does IP differ from physical property?  
  
• What are the key tenets of IPR?  
  
• What are the legal precedents and evolving paradigm in online issues related to trademarks, copyrights, and patents?  
  
• What assets can companies protect through IPR and can companies achieve complete protection?  
  
• How can companies recognize their digital assets and decide on the most appropriate legal protection for them?
  

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