Creating a Web Development Firm
Peter graduated in Computer Science three years ago and has been working as a web developer for a leading software provider ever since. During his employment, Peter gained considerable experience in web based and e-commerce solutions design. Leon, a business student, met Peter in collage. As an account manager in an advertisement and marketing company, Leon maintains a large database of businesses and has cultivated good relationships with most clients. Peter had successfully designed solutions for a few clients forwarded by Leon. After their initial success and given the number of prospective client, Peter and Leon decide to venture into the lucrative market of web development and start their own web development firm.
Business Vision
Business Name
The firm will carry the name "Web Solutions Plus." This name clearly reflects the type of business activity and the nature of products and services. It also conveys richness and variety allowing room for expanding operations and providing additional services in the future.
Mission Statement
Using the slogan "Quality for the financially challenged," Web Solutions Plus will provide products and services adhering to latest technological standards in the web development industry at highly competitive prices.
Products and Services
Web Solutions Plus will provide state of the art web based business solutions and consultancy services in web application design and management. The scope of operations will include website design and security, e-commerce solution design and management, intranets and database driven client/server applicationsaccounting and inventory systems, billing and P.O.S systems, payroll systems, customer lead generation systemsbuilt on a multitude of the latest web and database technologies.
Market Niche
The firm will target small to medium sized businesses operating in any sector and provide cost effective solutions with competitive prices. This will be especially appealing to businesses with limited budgets that find it difficult to afford solutions provided by major software venders. Market research remains pending to have a detailed assessment and this segment.
Competitors
An initial assessment of the market shows an abundance of website designers and e-commerce solution providers. However there seems to be a limited number of web based application providers that target business operations like P.O.S and accounting systems. Again, this area needs thorough market research for accurate assessment.
Future Plans
After attaining significant growth in the web development sector, Web Solutions Plus will consider expanding its business activities to include domain registration and Internet hosting services.
The growth of online business has grown enormously over the years. Cliptomania is a family operated and owned small e-business that primarily sells clip on earrings (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, & Perkins, 2012, p. 308). Cliptomania early developments were very modest, and as such the company experienced copious strategic dilemmas. An initial strategic dilemma that the company encountered when establishing and building their new e-business undertaking was to create a website for the business operations and essentially to have it fully operable. The owners, Jim and Candy elected to hire a vendor to host the website and additionally utilize the IT systems resources of the vendor to sustain their business. At the very beginning they exploited the offerings of the Yahoo Store. However, continuing down this avenue of using the services of the Yahoo Store inevitably became too costly. By using the services and business offerings of a vendor made it convenient and effortless for Jim and Candy to start their e-business store. Unfortunately the couple did not have much in the way of professional help, and so they had to create and put together the website by themselves. Additionally they also had to deal with establishing their online credibility as many customers preferred to call in their orders just to talk with a real person before being comfortable enough to place their orders via the webpage.
With AXI Travel, AXI was able to identify exactly what the customer was looking for, listened to the recommendations of the customer and implemented those recommendations, and worked with the leading name in IT to develop an ASP superior to any of its competitors. Leveraging the infrastructure already in place to develop new e-businesses, while providing incentives to the consumer to use all of the AXI e-businesses, solidified a customer base for their internet offerings. If AXI wants to remain a leader in the internet business corporate services industry, they need to continue these best practices of sound customer service and rapid innovation in the future.
The company has self organizing team and use groupware, emails and blogs to communicate with the customers.
With several thousand commercial Web sites to consider, there are a great variety of e-commerce business models.
However, with good leadership and motivation, these may be countered. These problems include; the difficulty in getting real time response through the developed website during the interaction with their customers. This way, the information technology department will not be able to effectively solve problems related with the website or analyze the needs and expectations of the consumers with ease. The other problem is the need to speed up the innovation process in order to reach wider markets hence ideas is required within the shortest time
Key Duties: • Carried out research on e-commerce and IT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). • Taught a range of management and Information Technology (IT) subjects to undergraduate programmes. • Delivered lectures, conducted tutorials, seminars and laboratory sessions for undergraduates. • Supervised numerous undergraduate computer-based projects, final year industry-based research and work programs. • Set course and degree requirements, curriculum revision and undertook academic planning activities.
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