E has become clipart for the creatively impaired. No one ever really said, so I guess it s up to us to complete the sentence and figure out what it means from company to company. But I believe three eWords provide a pretty accurate picture of the state of eBusiness. I ll propose that should form the foundation of any online business strategy. Every business, whether it s about mowing lawns or selling books, is already being affected or soon will be affected by the Internet.
Online business is literally the rebirth of the Industrial Revolution.
The Internet creates new businesses and re-creates traditional forms of business. Opportunists see the Internet in terms of what it will it do for them. Alarmists fear what the Internet would do to them. Note that the word is will and not can. Like it or not, eBusiness is everywhere.