farzal.ecommerce.spring2008.iba.khi.pk

A suggestion came from Adnan (PixSense) on doing case studies, and seems like a very reasonable set of topics. Any suggestions on web 2.0 failures?

I think the course should cover case studies of e-commerce sites in the
Web 1.0 world first

1) Amazon - Success
2) Ebay - Success
3) WebVan - Failure
4) Pets.com - Failure

Then the course should look at Web 2.0 companies
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Description of the course E-Commerce (MIS 403) is:

The course introduces the e-commerce concept, objectives, market drivers, requirements, underpinning techniques and technologies. Topics include: intelligent agents, client/server model, commitment, concurrency, recovery, network service, and application management, quality of service management, service level agreement management, application service providers and security management. Policy and regulatory issues in e-commerce will also be discussed. Finally, various e-commerce applications in the areas of finance, securities, trading, auctions, and travel will be described.

If you visit the IBA course description page, you notice that these students will not have any course on entrepreneurship. They do take a course in E-Business

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