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... These opportunities can be seen in the different e-business models that are currently providing benefits to organizations. A business model embodies a plan or offering a value proposition to customers, a source of revenues, an identification of costs, and a detailed set of processes for execution.
According to Kador (2000), the digital economy is driving the creation of five business models from which every e-business must select. Every successful Internet-ready organization takes on one or more of these models. Whether they occupy a Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Business-to-Business (B2B), or Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) environment, every e-business must develop competencies in one or more of these models: e-business storefronts, infomediary, trust intermediary, e-business enabler, and infrastructure provider.
E-Business Storefront
E-business storefronts are the online analog to traditional ways of selling products or services. E-business storefronts like Intel, Amazon, E*Trade, Cisco, and Dell offer to their target audiences, niche markets and buyers, products, product offering, order taking, services, fulfillment, customer service, and support, and content, information on products and services. ...
Infomediary
Infomediary is defined as an entity that brokers content, information, knowledge, or experiences that add value to a particular e-business transaction. ...
E-Business Enabler
For e-business enablers like Federal Express, LoopNet, and Chrome.com, the target audiences are E-business storefronts and Infomediaries. E-business enablers create and maintain an infrastructure in which product and service providers can conduct transactions reliably and securely. ...
Taking on one or more of the five extended e-business models creates e-business value. These models are not mutually exclusive. The most successful Internet-ready enterprises take on multiple business models concurrently. The facts support the conclusion that enterprises that have taken on multiple roles and manage them well have a dramatic advantage in the e-business.
Conversely, Robinson (2002) states that on an individual basis, each e-business model is unique in the same sense that each business plan is unique to a particular company or application because the factors and influences that go into planning for each organization is never exactly the same. However this does not mean common linkages cannot be drawn from differing business models. In general terms e-business models can be broadly grouped into 3 different categories, which are Business to Consumer Models (B2C), Business-to-Business Models (B2B), and Consumer-to-Consumer Models (C2C).
Business-to-Consumer Models
Business-to-Consumer (B2C) is well established by the existing, and increasingly automated web sites on the Internet. ...
In B2C, business models are often categorized by the way that revenues are generated. For instance, subscription models charge a monthly or annual subscription fee for the service; transaction-fee models charge a service fee based on the level of transactions offered; advertising-supported models charge to the advertising companies; and sponsorship models are a supplementary source of income.
Another perspective of classifying B2C models is the type of sites that sell directly to consumers. ...
B2C can also be classified by the scope of handling items, general purpose versus specialty or niche e-tailing and scope of covering region, global versus regional.
Business-to-Business Models (B2B)
Business-to-Business Models (B2B) reflects the interaction between manufacturers and suppliers. It should be duly noted that the B2B models may include each of the above B2C business models i.e. ...
Where B2B and B2C depart ways is in the development of e-business models that focus on generating benefits and savings in the tighter integration of suppliers and manufactures in addition to technology based business improvements between the parties.
Approximate Word count = 2895
Approximate Pages = 11.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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