E-business Design and Implementation

Course Description

Implementing an e-business solution requires knowledge of business processes, industry trends/practices, stakeholders, complex technologies, strategic planning, and organizational dynamics, just to name a few. It also requires a deep knowledge of how to integrate multiple groups of highly skilled people to complete a mission critical task in a very short period of time.

Does your organization have the right people to lead its e-business implementation strategy? Better yet, has your organization developed a strategic, repeatable and effective approach for implementing its e-business solution? If not, then you need to attend this training.

Target Audience

• e-Business Project Managers, MIS managers and anyone involved in implementing e-Business projects in their organization.

Course Contents

• Distinguish Program and Project when determining structure of an E-Business implementation effort.
• Determine the impacts of commitment, time and corporate culture elements on an E-Business Program.
• Determine the impacts of technology, infrastructure, and financial elements on an E-Business Program.
• Identify the primary purpose of a business-focused project.
• Identify the primary objective of technology projects.
• Identify today's environment trends.
• Determine the traits that influence E-Business implementation
• Describe the ways today's E-Business Implementation managers spend most of their time.
• Identify specific trend effects on E-Business implementations.
• Discuss the process and information model components of an E-Business architecture.
• Discuss the characteristics of organization and technology architecture components within an E-Business architecture
• Identify the impact of change on a company and its facility to handle the anticipated changes.
• Discuss your company's readiness for change.
• List the three E's for approaching an E-Business implementation effort.
• Identify the factors that contribute to successful E-Business implementation.
• Determine the purpose of an implementation roadmap.
• Identify the actions and purpose of each element of the E-Business implementation stage.
• Determine the purpose of a program implementation abstract and its key elements.
• Determine the appropriate strategy for your program implementation efforts.
• Identify the factors that go into selecting what projects to focus on, what some of the succes factors are, and possible filters.
• Identify how sequencing is determined and the dependencies that drive it.
• Analyze the different development life cycle approaches.
• Assess the benefits for of using a multi-manager approach.
• Choose an appropriate E-Business Program Structure.
• Determine the right person for the right role and responsibility for an E-Business implementation effort.
• Identify common characteristics for successful E-Business implementation leaders.
• Determine the attributes necessary for being a successful team member.
• Identify the common critical characterizes that successful team players must possess.
• Determine the benefits of defining a methods and tools strategy for E-Business implementation.
• Determine an appropriate process or strategy to resolve issues.
• Identify what constitutes a critical path.
• Determine the key risk factors and their particular effect on E-Business implementation.
• Identify the importance of establishing and maintaining an issue database.
• Determine possible challenges as you monitor and administer an E-Business implementation effort.
• Identify implementation monitoring success factors.
• Identify the skills necessary for resolving issues.
• List common mistakes made when addressing issues.
• Identify the skills necessary for resolving issues.
• List common mistakes made when addressing issues.
• Identify factors that are critical to E-Business implementation success.
• Determine the lessons that can be learned from the E-Business project implementation.
• Determine the lessons that can be learned from E-Business program reviews.
• Identify the views to consider when establishing a multi-view perspective.
• Identify the steps included in the review process.
• Identify the core competencies required for most customer relationship management infrastructures.
• Determine the difference between structured and unstructured information.
• Identify probable political issues that result during a CRM infrastructure implementation.
• List common situations where resistance to change can occur during a CRM infrastructure implementation.
• Evaluate CRM trends.
• Identify the appropriate guidelines to follow when for plotting a course for the implementation of a CRM infrastructure.
• List the business objectives achieved by using selling-chain management.
• List the main strategies involved in selling-chain management.
• Determine how business drivers help to make important information available for sales professionals to use in making sales at the point of sale.
• Determine how to select the best business driver that suits the needs that would be met by an implementation of a selling-chain infrastructure.
• Determine the influences that cause management to move toward implanting new ERP infrastructure.
• Evaluate influences in your company that point toward implementing ERP.
• Identify who the ERP market leader is, and some of the core competencies that make it the leader today.
• List several proven implementation strategies for deploying a successful ERP system.
• Identify what the five phases of SAP implementation methodology consist of for accelerating ERP deployment.
• Evaluate possible future trends with regard to ERP.
• Identify different types of supply chains.
• Determine how to assign a supply chain type to a list of industries.
• Identify management strategies enabled by an SCM infrastructure.
• Determine how to select a strategy being used by the business decision-maker after accessing information from an SCM-enabled information system.
• Identify common problems in supply chain management.
• List your experience with supply chain problems.
• Identify commonly-encountered problems or questions related to SCM management issues.
• Apply your experience regarding problems with SCM management.
• Identify the suggested order of steps for implementing a SCM infrastructure.
• Determine the order of steps for implementing a SCM infrastructure that seems the most appropriate to you.