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MOBILE AND E-COMMERCE (ME) DECEMBER 2012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEMESTER 8

MOBILE AND E-COMMERCE (ME) DECEMBER 2012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEMESTER 8


Con.9981-12.                                      (REVISED COURSE)                             KR-5148

                                                                    (3 Hours)                             [Total Marks: -100]

N.B.: (1) Question No.1 is compulsory.
         (2) Attempt any four questions out of remaining six questions.

Q.1 (a) Describe some of the main barriers to the adoption of e-commerce by consumers and
            suggest how a company could counter these. [10 Marks]
       (b) Explain in brief: i) Disintermediation ii) Counter-mediation iii) Vertical portals iv)
            Right channeling v) Reverse auction. [10 Marks]

Q.2 (a)What is meant by buy-side, sell-side and market place-based e-commerce? [10 Marks]
       (b) Describe different revenue models for e-business portals. Specify some of the models
             which are adopted by Yahoo and Google. [10 Marks]  

Q.3 (a) What are the different types of searching behavior exhibited by online users and what
             are its implications for someone responsible for traffic building on a site. [10 Marks] 
        (b) What is CRM? What are its four marketing activities? Bring out the difference between
              B2B and B2C buyers. [10 Marks]

Q.4 (a) Outline the stages involved in developing a strategic e-marketing plan. [10 Marks]
       (b) Outline four different methods of building Web-site traffic. Describe the relevance of the
             following tools for company hosting a website : [10 Marks]
             RSS, FTP, Blogs, HTML

Q.5 (a) As an e-business project manager, discuss different approaches you would take to build
            new skill sets either in the form of retention of existing staff or outsourcing. [10 Marks] 
        (b) You have set up your own holiday company (My Travels) and wish to host it online.
              Discuss three key strategic decision to be faced by your management team while the
              e-business strategy is being reviewed. [10 Marks]

Q.6 (a) Using industry example summarize three benefits of using e-commerce to streamline the
             supply chain. [10 Marks]
        (b) "Fully automated end-to-end procurement is not practical". Discuss. Explain risk and
               impacts of e-procurement. [10 Marks] 

Q.7 Write short notes on(any two): - [20 Marks]
         i) E-marketing                         ii) Business model for e-commerce
        iii) Change Management          iv) M-Commerce

Also see Mobile and e-commerce question papers for May 2012

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