You have two options for this assignment, choose one and prepare your report accordingly: Option 1: What is the most effective eBusiness strategy you are aware of? It could be a strategy adopted by your company or a company you are familiar with. Please d
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You have two options for this assignment, choose one and prepare your report accordingly: Option 1: What is the most effective eBusiness strategy you are aware of? It could be a strategy adopted by your company or a company you are familiar with. Please describe the strategy with background information and implementation details. You want to explain why it is effective?
what is the innovativeness? Your report should be between 500 to 1000 words. Option 2 (if you choose this one, you may extend it into a final project later): Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma” told us an important lesson in technology change and its impact on company survivability, that is if a company only focused on sustaining technology and ignored disruptive technology then the failure is unavoidable. Please read Chapter one of the book carefully.
This chapter gave us an excellent illustration of computer hard drive technology history and why many previous generation hard drive manufacturers cannot survive when next generation hard drive came and became prevalent. Chapter One could be found here: http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/christensen.htm The whole book could be downloaded via first link or read online via second link: http://archive.org/details/TheInnovatorDilemma http://archive.org/stream/TheInnovatorDilemma/PRUEBAS#page/n19/mode/2up After you finish your reading, please investigate current hard drive market especially solid state drive, identify manufacturers in this market and prepare a report, your report should address following questions: Is solid state drive a sustaining technology or disruptive technology? Find reference on analysis of 14 to 8 inch hard drive (disruptive technology) vs. 3.5 to 2.5 inch (sustaining technology) in Chapter one and the author explains why they are different. You want to use the same analysis method. List major hard drive companies in both traditional hard drive market and solid state drive market; Do you think those manufacturers in traditional hard drive market will survive this technology change? Which will and which will not? Explain your analysis in details and with data you collect Your report should have an appropriate title, sub title, and references. It should have at least 1500 words.
