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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Impacts We covered these in lesson 5 Consumer benefits and negatives
Business benefits and negatives
Conducted a debate on the topic, some slides in studshare

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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