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Course Description
The tremendous growth of the Internet and World Wide Web is having great impact on businesses, governments and individuals throughout the world. The Net and Web allow business to be conducted in ways heretofore not possible.  Organizations of all kinds are being affected in radical ways.  New business models are being invented.  Vast wealth is (well, it was before the stock market headed south!) being accumulated by Internet companies and shareholders.  Internet companies are using their capital value to buy or merge with other companies.  Consumers have rapid access to better information, increasing pricing pressure on competing firms.  Workers are more productive, further helping to keep prices low and inflation at bay.

In this course, we will attempt to understand the phenomena, both technological, economic and social, behind these rapid changes, and how organizations successfully conduct Internet-based activities. We will also study some of the technology of the Internet, as described below. This course provides an overview of e-commerce from both technological and managerial perspectives. It introduces e-commerce frameworks, and technological foundations; and examines basic concepts such as strategic formulation for e-commerce enterprises, management of their capital structures and  public policy. This course is designed to familiarize students with current and emerging electronic commerce technologies using the Internet.  Topics include Internet technology for business advantage, managing electronic commerce funds transfer, reinventing the future of business through electronic commerce, business opportunities in electronic commerce, electronic commerce Web site design, social, political and ethical issues associated with electronic commerce, and business plans for technology ventures. 

The course will cover chapters 1-12, 16, and shortly 3,4, and 13-15. However the student is encouraged to read all of the chapters. Time does not permit us to cover all topics in this book in just one semester. It is particularly important that the student place a great deal of emphasis in understanding the different EC system design principles.

The topics mentioned in the title of the course are WWW, technology of EC, e-strategies and tactics, e-security and payment systems, managerial and customer-related issues.

During the course of this term the students will be involved with a real problem solving/EC system development situation. Students will be required to gather requirements, identify the problem, form a solution and present this solution to a prospective customer. There will be a project which the students will develop.

Instructor: Dr. habil. Alexander Nikov
Room: 417, Phone: 3117, Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 11-12

Teaching assistant: Amir Mohammed

Textbook

Exam and Assignments Dates
Assignment1: Feb 15, assignment2: Mar 5, assigment3: Apr 5

Lecture Hours
Tuesdays 17:00-20:00,  FSA 313

Course Evaluation
Project assignments (1+2+3) 25%, Final Exam 75%

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Revised: 15 January 2008