Venture Management:

E-Business

E-Ventures

Building and Managing e-Business Ventures

By: Vadim Kotelnikov

Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach Inspiration and Innovation Unlimited!

"The key to success in e-venture is not technology, but value addition and customer satisfaction. Technology should serve, not rule."

Strategic Framework for Growth

  • Know the global market and trends

    • Where is the need?

    • What is the solution?

    • What is the cost?

  • Leapfrog – partner with enabling technologies

    • Professional services

    • Value-added products / services

  • Dig inside business value chain

    • Identify needs

    • Develop innovative solutions

  • Invest in training and education

    • Provide training

    • Encourage self-learning

    • Coach

     

Challenges for the IT Leader

 

Before You Begin: Questions to Answer

  • Why do you want to go online?

  • What business do you want to be in?

  • How will your online business add value to your customers?

  • How should you align your offline and online business?

Major Issues Involved in Setting Up and Running an e-Venture

  • Organizational Issues

    • Corporate inertia and resistance to change may underplay the need to develop an e-strategy

    • A common e-strategy may be hard to develop. To be effective and bridge the “Business-IT Divide”, it requires adoption of the modern Enterprise-wide Business Process Management (EBPM) approaches.

       

    • Lack of leadership and CEO’s involvement can kill the transformation effort.

    • The sales, finance and HRM force should develop a stake in e-business.

    • Coaching, training and continuous self-education is crucial in getting everyone on board.

  • Technological Issues

    • When making your choice, remember: You shouldn’t outsource your competitive advantage!

    • Trade-off between quality and speed of technological adaptation.

    • Transition from 8/5 to 24/7 services to serve the online clients.

    • Challenge of “legacy system” integration within the enterprise.

    • Issues related to “opening up” and integrating with your suppliers and customers.

  • External Issues: Managing Existing Partnerships

    • Hurdles in integrating heterogeneous hard-soft systems in different organizations.

    • Leadership, trust and co-innovation issues in managing inter-organizational processes.

    • Partnering with complementary service providers and customers.

    • The fear of loosing connectivity and competing with partners

Choice of Technology

The key to success in e-venture is not technology, but value addition and customer satisfaction. Technology should serve, not rule.

Qualities you should look for while selecting the appropriate technology:

  • Scalability and maintainability of the project

  • Possibility of customizations, personalization and localization

  • Capability to integrate with existing business systems and processes

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-supply chain features

  • Effective and easy content management

  • Security

  • Cost

 

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References:

  1. "Reducing IT Project Risk - Methods Used in the IT Selling and Buying Process", White Paper by Ruben Melendez, President and CEO, Glomark Corporation

  2. The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper, Clark A. Campbell

  3. “The Asian Manager’s Handbook of E-Commerce”, Rajesh Chackrabarti and Vikas Kardile

  4.  “The E-Myth Contractor”, Michael E. Gerber

  5.  “IndiaSoft” Conference Materials

  6. Venturepreneur, Vadim Kotelnikov

  7. Entrepreneurial Leadership, Vadim Kotelnikov

  8. New Business Models, Vadim Kotelnikov

  9. Managing Radical Innovation, Vadim Kotelnikov

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e-Business

Business Model Innovation: New Roles of the IT Leader

IT Leader

IT/Business Alignment

E-Commerce

Intellectual Property Issues Related to E-Commerce

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Value Chain Management

Enterprise-wide Business Process Management (EBPM)

Process Thinking