Part 1: Answer the Module Review Questions listed below. These questions were chosen to demonstrate your understanding and help you assess your progress.
- How can Internet technologies be involved in improving a process in one of the functions of business? Choose one example and evaluate its business value.
- What are several e-business applications that you might recommend to a small company to help it survive and succeed in challenging economic times? Why?
- How could sales force automation affect salesperson productivity, marketing management, and competitive advantage?
- Should every company become a customer-focused business? Why or why not?
- How can the problem of overenthusiastic demand forecasts in supply chain planning be avoided?
- Should companies install e-business software suites or "best of breed" e-business software components? Why?
Part 2: Read the Analysis Exercise at the end of the chapter and complete the questions after the summary.
#1 Netsuite's Netsuite: Enterprise Systems to Go (p. 360)
a. Identify and explore NetSuite's components that relate to your business major.
b. Click on the "customers" link on NetSuite's home page and select a customer in an industry that interests you (or one assigned by your instructor). Read the customer's success story.What benefits were emphasized?
c. Would you recommend this suite to a small business owner? Why or why not?
a. Identify and explore NetSuite's components that relate to your business major.