role of IT in the growth of business
Building a successful global e-business system means balancing dozens of management factors, competitive opportunities, technologies, applications, localization issues, and company policies. ... The implementation of business rule meta-modeling, and being sensitive to local market cultures, are two important methods of maintaining “e-speed” and of ensuring “e-survival.” While this document has concentrated on the project-level and corporate management issues related to the design and development of e-business websites, there are many additional pieces to the puzzle, including server configurations, tools, operations and system management software. ... Successful e-business initiatives, therefore, must start at the top in order to stay at the top once released to the Internet.