Assignment 2 Unit 1 Business skills for e-commerce HND in Computing and Systems Development

Timeline Week Activity 1 Introduction & Businesses 10 Assignment 2 LO2 LO1 Stakeholders 11 LO3 Key processes 3 LO1 Functions 12 LO3 e-commerce 4 13 LO3 Security - 1 5 LO2 Impacts 14 LO3 Security - 2 6 Assignment 1 LO1 15 LO3 Legislation 7 LO3Target markets 16 Assignment 3 LO3 issued 8 LO3 Objectives 17 Assignment work 9 LO3 Market research 18

Outcome LO2 Understand the impact of e-Commerce Consumer impact: empowered customers eg online sales, direct communication with customers, greater choice, lower prices, availability of new products; global markets; new marketing models; on-line advertising Business impact: global business and consumer markets; issues eg challenge of new technology, security issues, impact and implications of dealing with customers on-line, creating new distribution channels, greater competition, challenge to monopoly power, retraining of staff, lower overheads, new selling chains; legislation

Impacts We covered these in lesson 5 Consumer benefits and negatives Business benefits and negatives Conducted a debate on the topic,

Assessment criteria 2.1 Analyse the impact, including the risks, of introducing an e-Commerce system to an organisation 2.2 Discuss the global impact of e-Commerce on society

Assignment scenario You are an e-commerce consultant You have been commissioned by Business Matters (the UK's leading SME business magazine) to write an 800 word article about the impacts of e-commerce They want the article to be illustrated and well referenced so that their readers can obtain more detail about the topics The style should match that of articles on their web site

Task LO 2.1 and 2.2 Write an 800 word article about the impacts of e-commerce on a small business You need to consider the benefits and disadvantages for both the business and its customers Make sure you cover: Global markets Competition Legislation Growth

M1 and M3 M1: You have to research and reference all the material you are going to use in the article. This will be judged on the quality and relevance of the relevant material M3: To achieve M3 you must produce documentation to the correct format for a magazine article. Correct terminology must be used, but explained if it is not common parlance. Paragraphs should be short with clear headings describing the content. Illustrations should relevant, placed near the appropriate text and be clearly labelled

D3 To achieve D3 then you have produce a concise article, covering a lot of facts in an unfamiliar format and style. You need to think about how best to transmit your ideas and facts in that style

Hints Lesson 5 has slides of advantages and disadvantages – use those as a basis For illustrations look for charts on e-commerce growth revenue growth reduced costs