Choose one of the five competitive forces in Porter’s model. Describe a new opportunity and a new threat due to e-commerce via the Internet for a specific industry of your choosing.

MBA 5401 Unit IV Assessment

 

Question 1

 

Choose one of the five competitive forces in Porter’s model. Describe a new opportunity and a new threat due to e-commerce via the Internet for a specific industry of your choosing.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 2

Define and contrast the following pairs of terms: dot-com and bricks-and-clicks; intranet and extranet; B2C and B2B.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 3

What are some of the potential benefits of B2B applications that use the Internet?

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 4

Compare and contrast a context diagram (using data flow diagram (DFD) modeling) and a use case diagram (using unified modeling language (UML))?

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 5

Define the term system. Give an example of a business system, and create a context diagram to show its boundary, environment, inputs, and outputs.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length in addition to the context diagram. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. The diagram and response must be submitted as one document as a file upload.