Date

Topics, Assignments, etc.

1/08

Introduction & Course Overview (A&T Ch.1), The Information Economy (S&V Ch. 1), Some E-commerce definitions.

Overview of Internet Technology and Value Network (A&T Ch. 2), Internet protocols, etc. (A&T Appendix pg. 177), Internet Basics, FTP.

Check hardware requirements & download & install software required for this course.

First Assignment is due by January 12, 2001.

1/15

University Holiday

1/22

Readings: Competitive Landscape (A&T Ch. 3), The Customer Service Life Cycle (You should go through this carefully by exploring all the links from the main page.) Come to class ready to discuss what portions of the Consumer life-cycle General Motors services on its own and what is outsourced?
Information Technology: Transforming our Economy, Understanding the Net Economy Revolution
Interorganizational Commerce slides, IT & firm strategy slides (I assume that you are familiar with the material in the "IT & firm strategy" slides; they will not be discussed in class).
Watch this video (14 minutes)
Watch this video if you do not know how the Internet works with TCP/IP. (13 minutes)

Slides used in class.

Case Discussion: GMBuyPower.com (A&T)

1/29

Building Web pages. Download the slides & go through the online readings.
Readings: A Beginner's Guide to HTML,
What E-business sites keep getting wrong,
Basic Web Development,
Web site Design Guide.
Introduction To Forms and Scripts and Cookies.
Basic HTML slides,
Advanced HTML slides &
HTML Form example slides.

Come to class ready to tell us what your firm is trying to do with its website.

2/5

Readings: Internet Business Models (A&T Chs. 4, 5, 6 & 7), Pricing Information (S&V Ch. 2), Business Model Slides, The truth about Internet Business Models.

Case Discussion: Hotmail.com & Ebay, Inc. (A&T)

2/12

Building Dynamic Web pages: What we know about site visitors and  how this information can be used.
Download: Online transaction processing slides.

Readings: Getting Started with Cold Fusion. Try out this Cold Fusion Example.
A very brief introduction to database technology & database design. Download Database slides.

Cold Fusion Documentation (reference throughout the semester).

Second Assignment is due.

2/19

Business: Versioning Information (S&V Ch. 3), Rights Management (S&V Ch. 4), Recognizing Lock-in (S&V Ch. 5), Managing Lock-in (S&V Ch. 6)

Case Discussion: Red Hat Software and Linux Operating System: Where do you want to go tomorrow? AND Microsoft: Breaking up is hard to do (A&T)

Go through the handouts from last week - the school example. Try to understand what is going on by trying out the example while looking atthe relevant portion of the handout. Come to class with questions.

2/26

Guest Speaker: Sundeep Dronawat, Ph.D. Vice-President for Ecommerce, Integrity Life Insurance Company.

Readings: Applying the concepts, models and tools (A&T Chs. 9, 10)

We will watch videos about Dell's use of the Net & Online Investing.

3/5

Guest Speaker: Mr. Steven Paradis, CEO, Ironmax.com.

Readings: Three Emerging Strategies, Networks & Positive Feedback (S&V Ch. 7)

Case Discussion: Netscape Communications (A&T)

Third Assignment is due.
Here is a solution to the third assignment.

3/19

Readings: E-commerce Differences: Pricing & long-term competitiveness: Value-oriented Electronic Commerce
Auctions, Brokering, Going, going, gone, Group buying discounts (How do group buying discounts work for the mobshop?). Be prepared to discuss these models -- the effects of these pricing alternatives from the buyer and seller perspectives.

Case Discussion: Webvan: Reinventing the Milkman (A&T).

3/26

Readings: Security & Privacy: Internet Commerce, Securing Trust, Surfer Beware, Cutting out e-fraud.
What are the economic and social costs of security & privacy problems?

Topics: Introduction to Public Key Cryptography, Using PGPKey software. Security slides.
Cold Fusion: updating a database & generating dynamic pages. Download More Advanced Cold Fusion Tags.

Individual eBusiness Model Evaluation Due.

4/2

Readings: Competitive & Macro Environments (A&T Ch. 8) & Information Policy (S&V Ch. 10)

Case Discussion: Microsoft: Breaking up is hard to do (A&T)

4/9

Readings: Cooperation & Compatability (S&V Ch. 8), Standards (S&V Ch. 9)

Case Discussion: Sun Microsystems: Jumping for Java (A&T). We will also discuss the Netscape case again.

4/16

Topics: Legal & ethical issues (S&V Ch. 10)

Case Discussion: Diamond Multimedia & the Rio (A&T)

Fourth Assignment is Due.
Here is a  solution to Assignment 4.

4/30

Project Presentations (attendance mandatory)
Project Reports are Due. Class will begin at 5:30 PM and end no later than 10:30 PM to allow all groups adequate time for prersentations and Q&A.