Polish video sharing service

Remember the video sharing service YouTube (with Melanie's breakup) I showed you? I just got an e-mail from Agny, one of my business colleagues, who "shared" a video through video.i1234 - a Polish service. You may laugh at that video here...

You may now subscribe

I just cleaned up the blog a little bit, added the "about me" information, and some links. The latter includes a link to the blogs RSS-feed, enhanced by the Feedburner service.
You may learn about how to subscribe by clicking the orange "RSS-icon". At the lecture I demonstrated how the feed can be incorporated in the Bloglines service. But, as you will see, FeedBurner points to a number of other newsreading services with different capabilities.

Later, probably tomorrow, I will publish my handouts and other course notes - and of course a more clearly discription of the assignment and its deadline.

First I will have lunch, do some shopping, check out the night life in Krakow and have a good nights sleep.

Welcome to the assignment

You will also create blogs. Later on I will inform you here about the assignment and the assessment procedure.

Useful Web sites

Useful Web sites:

Ask Jeeves, at http://www.ask.com
useful for learning about things, such as terms and concepts

SSRN eBusiness
and eCommerce
database with interestering work-in-progress

eLab – Research for a Digital World, at: http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/
academic research project

First Monday (peer reviewed journal), at http://www.firstmonday.org/
peer reviewed electronic journal

Managing the Digital Enterprise, at http://digitalenterprise.org/
e-learning for free

Usable Information Technology, at http://www.useit.com/
about the design of Web sites and other user interfaves

About Web Services

• digitalenterprise.org/seminar/otoole.html


• web3.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/


• http://www.webservices.org/


• searchwebservices.techtarget.com


• http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/


• XLANG

Course literature

Compulsory articles:
These articles must all be read.

• Anderson, C. (2004) The Long Tail, Wired 12.10 (October).
  see also Anderson's blog www.thelongtail.com
• Gatarski, R. (2002) Organizing artificial sellers: exploring the automation of E-commerce, in B. Hedberg, A. Yakhlef and P. Baumard (Eds.) Managing Imaginary Organizations: A New Perspective on Business. Elsevier.
• Gatarski, R. and Lundkvist, A. (1998) Interactive Media face Artificial Consumers and marketing theory must re-think. The Journal of Marketing Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 45-49
• Hagel, J. H. III and Seely Brown, J. (2001) Your next IT Strategy, Harvard Business Review, October, pp. 105-113.
  or
  Hagel, J J III (2002) The strategic value of Web services, The McKinsey Quarterly, November, pp. 3-34
• Rayport, J. F. and Sviokla, J. J. (1995) Exploiting the virtual value chain, Harvard Business Review, November-December, pp. 75-85.
• Thomke, S. och von Hippel, E. (2002) Customers as innovators: a new way to create value, Harvard Business Review (April), pp. 5-11.

Recommended literature:

• Chaffey, D. (2004), E-Business and E-Commerce Management, Second edition, Prentice-Hall.
  Companion website: http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/ema_uk_he_chaffey_ebus_2
  This academic textbook (550 pages) is recommenced, but not
  compulsory, reading. You may alse dive into Chaffeys "E-business book blog".
• Seybold, P. (1998) Customers.com, how to create a profitable business strategy
  for the Internet and beyond. New York: Times books
  See also http://www.psgroup.com/book/Overview.html
  This management style book is recommended for those that want
  to read about successful business cases.
  

About the DBE course module

The overall aim of this module is to critically explore from a theoretical perspective how business is enhanced by digital tools and thus develop a sound understanding of past, current and future developments. Through this short but comprehensive guide to the most important aspects of deploying and managing digital tools, students will be better prepared for practical management as well as further research in the field.

The module is designed for students who, from a managerial perspective, wish to gain a more in-depth exposure to computer-based information technology issues (including the Internet and wireless networks) and their implications for business. It presumes advanced knowledge of traditional management, marketing and information theories and a certain acquaintance with economic theories (such as transaction cost theory).

Besides the lectures there are some compulsory (must read) articles and recommended literature. It is highly recommended that you read Chaffey (2004) or some other similar E-business textbook. As a courtesy to interested students this blog also lists some useful Web sites. After the lectures students are required to complete an assignment.

The lectures are divided into two sessions (actual disposition may vary depending on class interaction).

Session one: Introduction and overview
Friday June 2nd

• Introduction
  - about the teacher
  - aim of the lectures
  - notion about the written assignement
• A historical context
• E-management (supplement to Chaffey 2004)
  - e-commerce, e-business and e-government
  - infrastructure and environment
  - related management concepts

Session two: Digital Business Enhancements
Saturday June 3th

• Ubiqutous Computing and the Post PC era
• Wireless trends
• Artificial Market Actors
• Blogging and podcasting