Transcript eBusiness in forestry sector

eBusiness in forestry sector
Inno-Forest 7.9.2006
Zvolen, Slovakia
Ilkka Pekkarinen, Finland
www.savonia-amk.fi
eBusiness in forestry sector
• eBusiness – backgrounds
• In forestry sector – group work based on case
studies
• Case
eBusiness or eCommerce?
•
eCommerce – A term which covers any form of
business or administrative transaction, or
information exchange between a business and the
outside world, which is executed using any
information and communication technology (ICT).
Source: eCommerce in Welsh SMEs: The State of the Nation Report
2005/2006 Page 75
• Different terms are used
Technological revolutions
Technological
revolution
(main country)
INSTALLATION PHASE
initiation
enthusiasm
Industrial revolution
(Great Britain)
Steam and trains era
(From Great Britain to Europe
and to USA)
Steel, electricity and
Heavy industry era
(USA and Germany pass
Great Britain)
Oil, cars and
mass production era
(Expanded from USA to
Europe)
eBusiness/eCommerce
era
1770-1780
beginning
Explosion
(Big bang)
IMPLEMENTATION PHASE
synergy
mature
End1780-1790
beginning
1797
1798-1812
1813-1829
1830
1840
1847
1850-1857
1857-1873
1875-1884
1884-1893
1893
1895-1907
1908-1918
1908-1920
1920-1929
1929
1943-1959
1960-1974
1990
About 1995
2000
2003-2024
2025->
Time
Source based on: Jelassi, T. & Enders, A. Strategies for E-Business. 2005. S.13.
Source: Turban 2004
The current stage of e-business development
can be observed through an
analysis of three forces of change.
1) The development of technology
2) Advances in business
3) The capacity of the organisation to adopt the
practices of e-business
Source: the information society council report 2005 Finland
eCommerce Route map
Step 0 – Haven’t started yet
• The business does not have Internet access.
Step 1 - Use eMail and the Web
• The business does not have a Web site but accesses information and
services on the
• Web and uses eMail. This step can be further divided into businesses
using eMail only
• but not surfing the Web.
Step 2 – Have a basic Web site
• The business has its own Web site which only includes very basic
information about
• the business; for more information customers have to contact the
business.
Step 3 – Have an on-line brochure
• Customers can access more detailed information about
products/services from the
• Web site but cannot buy or pay on-line.
eCommerce Route map
Step 4 – Have an on-line store
• Customers can buy and pay for products/services from the Web site,
but the Web site
• is not linked to internal systems and orders are processed manually.
Step 5 – Have integrated systems
• The on-line “store” is integrated with other business systems e.g.
order processing,
• fulfilment, accounts and/or marketing.
Step 6 – Use advanced eCommerce
• Internet technology drives the business internally and externally, and
is used to
• manage all processes end-to-end more effectively and efficiently.
Source: eCommerce in Welsh SMEs: The State of the Nation Report
2005/2006 Page 62