Welcome to ECommerce 2012!

Students can find information about the course in this blog, including supporting materials, announcements, useful links and other administration issues.
A few things that you should do at the beginning of the course:

1. Subscribe your personal email to the course mailing list (the box on the right hand)
2. Form your group as soon as possible so that you can start working on the assessments right away. Each group nominates a leader. The leader will prepare a list of members and send to me  (download the template)
3. Register your project topics. The topics must be different between groups (first come first serve)

Good luck to you all!

E-Commerce Major Project - Company Choice

Dear students of E-Commerce IU class,
Please write a comment to this post, indicating the E-commerce company that you choose for your group project (any in the top 500) as follow:

1. Class (Monday or Tuesday)
2. Group number
3. Leader's name
4. Company of your choice

Note: Your company must be not chosen by any other group in both of Monday and Tuesday class.
Regards,

Final Exam: E-Commerce

Individual, closed book, 2 hours

Time schedule

+ 120 mins = 60 mins (for 40 MCQ)   + 60 mins (for 5 essay questions) 

Questions

+ 40 MCQ x 1.5 marks = 60 marks

+ 5 essay questions = 40 marks

Topics 

+ Textbook chapters

After mid term

• Chapter 3: Building E-commerce Web Sites
• Chapter 4: E-commerce Security and Payment
• Chapter 8: Ethics, Law, and E-commerce
• Chapter 11: E-commerce Retailing and Services
• Chapter 12: B2B E-commerce

+ Innovation process (assignment 2)

Presentation sessions for major projects

The schedule for your major projects will remain the same order as your weekly discussion on your case studies. If you presented first for the weekly discussion, you will also present first for the major project, as follow:

26-27/11: Major project
+ Monday class: Ly, Dung
+ Tuesday class: Lai Hieu Phuong, Yen Nhi, Vu Thi Quynh




03-04/12: Major project
+ Monday class: Hung, Hong
+ Tuesday class: Hoang, Hong Hanh, Huynh Da Thien

Good luck

No class after mid term exam 05-06/11

We will not have class on 05-06/11 (after the mid term exam), so that you will have more time to prepare for the E-commerce major project.

05-06/11: no class
12-13/11: Chapter 11, present chapter 4
19-20/11: Chapter 12, present chapter 8
26-27/11: Major project
03-04/12: Major project
From 31/12: Final Exam

Mid term exam

Topics:
Chapter 1: Introduction to E-commerce
Chapter 2: E-commerce Infrastructure: The Internet and the Web
Chapter 5: Business Models for E-commerce
Chapter 6: E-commerce Marketing
Chapter 7: E-commerce Advertising

Time and Location: to be announced

Test type: closed book

Question type: MCQ, short answer 

Are Vietnamese e-commerce companies acceptable for the major project?

Question: 

Can I choose a Vietnamese company for my major project? If I choose one of the top 500 companies, it would be a foreign company and many Vietnamese people may not know about it, so how can I interview them? And also, what if the company's products and services are not yet available in Vietnam?

Answer:

Well, you can choose VN company if you HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION! Think carefully. A foreign company may not have a branch office in Vietnam, but thats ok. This is e-commerce, and it is supposed to enable customers from around the globe to make purchases. So geographical distance will not be a problem here. The company itself may not be popular in Vietnam (though it is well known in overseas) but thats ok, you can still interview Vietnamese people to see if they would be interested in such products or services if they are made available in Vietnam. Say, Dell computers, Vietnamese customers often buy Dell products from a retail shop (not a Dell shop) or alternatively, they can go to Dell.com and purchase. Dell does not have a manufacturing facility in Vietnam yet, so they would ship from other countries, say Malaysia. So, you can ask customers if they consider buying Dell products from the website. If the answer is No (since they can purchase from a retail store), you can go on and ask what would make them change their mind (cheaper price or something else). Remember that you are introducing e-commerce to the Vietnamese market.