Rabu, 16 April 2008

Business Models

BUSINESS MODELS

A. E-Commerce Business Models
A business model is a set of planned activities designed to result in a marketplace. The business model is at the center of the business plan. Business plan is a document that describes a firm’s business model

EIGHT KEY INGREDIENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
To develop a successful business model in any arena, we must make sure that the model effectively addresses the eight elements. These elements are :
1. Value Proposition
    Is defines how a company’s product or service fulfills the needs of customers.
2. Revenue Model
    Is describes how the firm will earn revenue, produce profits, and produce a superior return on     invested capital.
3. Market Opportunity
    Is the area of actual or potential commercial value in which a company intends to operate.
4. Competitive Environment
    Refers to the other companies operating in the same marketspace selling similar products.
5. Competitive Advantage
    Achieved by a firm when it can produce a superior product and/or bring the product to     market at a lower price than most, or all, of its competitors.
6. Market Strategy
    The plan you put together that details exactly how you intend to enter a new market and     attract new customers.
7. Organizational Development
    Development plan that describes how the company will organize the work that needs to be     accomplished.
8. Management Team
    Employees of the company responsible for making the business model work.

B.  MAJOR BUSINESS TO CONSUMER (B2C) BUSINESS MODEL
Business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce, in which online business seek to reach individual consumers, is the most well known and familiar type of e-commerce. The major business models utilized in the B2C arena :
1. Portal
    Offers users powerful web search tools as well as an integrated package of content and     services all in one place
2. E-Tailer
    Is online retail store, come in all sizes and shape, from giant Amazon.com to tiny local stores     that have Web sites.
3. Content Provider
    Distributes information content, such as digital news, music, photos, video, and artwork over     the web.
4. Transaction Broker
    Site that processes transactions for consumers that are normally handled in person, by phone,     or mail.
5. Market Creator
    Builds a digital environment where buyers and sellers can meet, display product, search for     products, and establish a price for product.
6. Service Provider
    Service provider offers services online. Some charge a fee, while others generate revenue from     other sources, such as through advertising and by collecting personal information that is useful     in direct marketing.
7. Community Provider
    Sites that create a digital online environment where people with similar interest can transact,     communicate with like minded people, and receive interest related information.

C.  MAJOR BUSINESS TO BUSINESS (B2B) BUSINESS MODEL
Major business models that utilized in the B2B arena :
1. E-Distributor
    A company that supplies products and services directly to individual business.
2. E-Procurement
    B2B e-procurement firms create and sell access to digital electronic market. Sells business     services to other firms.
3. Exchanges (B2B Hubs)
    A digital electronic marketplace where suppliers and commercial purchasers can conduct    transactions.
4. Industry Consortia
    Industry owned vertical marketplaces that serve specific industries.
5. Private Industrial Networks
    Digital networks designed to coordinate the flow of communications among firms engaged in     business together.

D. BUSINESS MODELS IN EMERGING E-COMMERCE AREAS
1. Consumer to Consumer (C2C) Business Models
    Helps consumers connect with other consumers to conduct business.
2. Peer to Peer (P2P) Business Models
   Technology enabling consumers to share files and services via the web,without common     servers.
3. M-Commerce Business Models
    Extending business applications using wireless technology.

E.  HOW THE INTERNET AND THE WEB CHANGE BUSINESS : STRATEGY,      STRUCTURE, AND PROCESS

1. Industry structure
    Refers to the nature of the players in an industry and their relative bargaining power. An     effort to understand and describe the nature of competition in an industry, the nature of     substitute products, the barriers to entry, and the relative strength of consumers and     suppliers, is called industrial structural analysis.
2. Industry value chain
    The set of activities performed in an industry or in a firm that transforms raw inputs into final     products and services.
3. Firm Value Chain
    The set of activities a firm engages in to create final products from raw inputs.
4. Firm Value Webs
    Networked trans-business system that coordinates the value chains of several firms.
5. Business strategy
    Is a set of plans for achieving superior long term returns on the capital invested in a business     firm.

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