A beginners guide to ecommerce in fashion retail. This aims to highlight the key areas that must be considered when designing, building and marketing an ecommerce website.
A panel on crossborder- approaches for expanding abroad (b2 b, b2c, marketpla...eTailing India
Indian eCommerce market is about $30 billion in size at present and expected to reach $5 billion dollars in the next 3-5 years. The market size in US, Amazon and eBay put together would be approximately $300 billion. Also, Alibaba and other eCommerce companies combined together would be of $500 billion in China.
A beginners guide to ecommerce in fashion retail. This aims to highlight the key areas that must be considered when designing, building and marketing an ecommerce website.
A panel on crossborder- approaches for expanding abroad (b2 b, b2c, marketpla...eTailing India
Indian eCommerce market is about $30 billion in size at present and expected to reach $5 billion dollars in the next 3-5 years. The market size in US, Amazon and eBay put together would be approximately $300 billion. Also, Alibaba and other eCommerce companies combined together would be of $500 billion in China.
Discussion about E-bay in Paul Trott Book of Innovation management. Group members consist of Tumenast Erdenbold, Thint Khine and Riri Kusumarani. Course offered by Professor Munkee Choi in ITTP,KAIST
eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.
Instructions Please read the following case description of eBay St.docxJeniceStuckeyoo
Instructions: Please read the following case description of "eBay Structures Its Bid for Change". After reading this case, you should prepare your analysis following the guidelines I have provided. The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate that you can apply the concepts, principles, and theories presented in the course readings. Your analysis must employ only the facts presented in the case description below. You must resist the temptation to introduce facts not in evidence in the case description by searching the internet for updated information. The company’s present situation is not necessarily the ideal solution that could be derived from a careful analysis of the facts as presented here.
This assignment is worth 80 points. Please post your completed case analysis under the "Assignments" tab.
eBay Structures Its Bid for Change
In 1995, 28-year-old computer programmer Pierre Omidyar started an online business to answer the kind of question that might interest both microeconomists and entrepreneurs: “He launched eBay,” we’re now told on eBay’s website, “to experiment with how equal access to information and opportunities would affect the efficiency of the marketplace.” Enthusiastic response to preliminary efforts had convinced Omidyar that somewhere there was a buyer for every item that a seller might put up for sale. The next step in Omidyar’s experiment consisted of a weekend spent writing software code that would support online auctions. He launched a website called AuctionWatch in 1995, and two years later changed the company’s named to eBay.
Originally, Omidyar structured his company using the functional design typical of small businesses. He set up the usual functional areas such as operations, finance, legal, human resources, etc., and eventually gave each unit a company president; however, he introduced a twist in the usual functional configuration by integrating a System4 design based on the behavioral model of organizational design that emphasizes the importance of group and other interpersonal processes. Omidyar’s personal values favored creating a company the structure of which sidestepped big business altogether and permitted individuals, wherever they might be, to function as buyers and sellers. Today, people commonly refer to eBay as “an online auction and shopping site,” but Omidyar envisioned his site as much more than an auction space. He intended eBay to create an online community—something like a small town in cyberspace—and, for that, he needed an organizational model that did away with bureaucracy and fostered democratic decision making, decentralization, open communication and interaction, and relationships of trust; after all, the entire business model depended upon two strangers trusting one another.
Omidyar stepped down as CEO in 1998, although he retained his position as chairman of the board. He was replaced by Meg Whitman, a former management consultant and a veteran of such venerable firms as P.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Adversarial Attention Modeling for Multi-dimensional Emotion Regression.pdf
Examination paper information technology and management & data base management systems
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Examination Paper MM.100
Information Technology and Management
Section A: Objective Type (30 marks)
• This section consists of multiple choice questions & short notes type questions.
• Answer all the questions.
• Part One questions carry 1 mark each & Part two questions carry 5 marks each.
Part One:
Multiple Choices:
1. Computer crime is defined by:
a. AITP
b. SWAT
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of the above
2. Prototyping is sometimes called:
a. ASD
b. RSD
c. RAD
d. None of the above
3. Virtual reality is also called:
a. Computer-simulated reality
b. Neurons
c. Software robots
d. Telepresence
4. A trackball is a stationary device related to the:
a. Keyboard
b. Joystick
c. Mouse
d. All of the above
5. Hand-held microcomputer devices known as:
a. Personal digital assistance
b. Super computers
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of the above
6. KMS stands for:
a. Knowledge memory systems
b. Knowledge making system
c. Knowledge management systems
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d. None of the above
7. A basic system component of information systems is:
a. Memory
b. Processing
c. Storage
d. All of the above
8. How many characters uses the MICR system?
a. 15 characters
b. 18 characters
c. 24 characters
d. 14 characters
9. EBCDIC stands for:
a. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
b. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Instruction Code
c. Extended Binary Coded Data Interchange Code
d. Electronic Binary Coded Data Interchange Code
10. The smallest element of data is called:
a. Byte
b. Bit
c. Giga byte
d. None of the above
Part Two:
1. Write a note on ‘Cache Memory’.
2. What do know about ‘Assembler’?
3. Write a note on ‘Optical Character Recognition’.
4. Explain the term ‘Electronic commerce’.
END OF SECTION A
Section B: Caselets (40 marks)
• This section consists of Caselets.
• Answer all the questions.
• Each Caselet carries 20 marks.
• Detailed information should form the part of your answer (Word limit 150 to 200 words).
Caselet 1
It began as a trading site for nerds, the newly jobless, home-bound housewives, and bored retirees to
sell subprime goods: collectibles and attic trash. But eBay quickly grew into a teeming marketplace
of 30 million, with its own laws and norms, such as a feedback system in which buyers and sellers
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rate each other on each transaction. When that wasn’t quite enough, eBay formed its own police
force to patrol the listings for fraud and kick out offenders. The company even has something akin to
a bank: Its Paypal payment-processing unit allows buyers to make electronic payments to eBay
sellers who can’t afford a merchant credit card account. “eBay is creating a second, virtual
economy,” says W. Brian Arthur, an economist at think tank Santa Fe Institute. “It’s opening up a
whole new medium of exchange.” eBay’s powerful vortex is drawing diverse products and players
into its profitable economy, driving its sellers into the heart of traditional retailing, a $2 trillion
market. Among eBay’s 12 million daily listings are products from giants such as Sears Roebuck,
Home Depot, Walt Disney, and even IBM. More than a quarter of the offerings are listed at fixed
prices. The result, says Bernard H. Tenenbaum, president of a retail buyout firm, is “They‘re coming
right for the mainstream of the retail business.” So what started out as a pure consumer auction
market-place is now also becoming a big time business-to-consumer and even business-to-business
bazaar that is earning record profits for eBay’s stockholders. And as the eBay economy expands,
CEO Meg Whitman and her team may find that managing it could get a lot tougher, especially
because eBay’s millions of passionate and clamorous users demand a voice in all major decisions.
This process is clear in one of eBay’s most cherished institutions: the voice of the Customer
program. Every couple of months, the executives of eBay bring in as many as a dozen sellers and
buyers, especially its high selling “Power Sellers,” to ask them questions about how they work and
what else eBay needs to do. And at least twice a week, it holds hour-long teleconferences to poll
users on almost every new feature or policy, no matter how small. The result is that users feel like
owners, and they take the initiative to expand the eBay economy – often beyond management’s
wildest dreams. Stung by an aerospace down-turn, for instance, machine-tool shop Reliable Tools
Inc., tried listing a few items on eBay in late 1998. Some were huge, hulking chunks of metal, such
as a $7,000 2,300-pound milling machine. Yet they sold like ice cream in August. Since then, says
Reliable’s auction manager, Richard Smith, the company’s eBay business has “turned into a
monster.” Now the Irwindale (California) shop’s $1 million in monthly eBay sales constitutes 75%
of its overall business. Pioneers such as Reliable promoted eBay to set up an industrial products
marketplace in January that’s on track to top $500 million in gross sales this year.Then there is eBay
Motors. When eBay manager Simon Rothman first recognized a market for cars on cars on eBay in
early 1999, he quickly realized that such high-ticket items would require a different strategy than
simply opening a new category. To jump-start its supply of cars and customers, eBay immediately
bought a collector-car auction company, Kruse International, for $150 million in stock, and later did
a deal to include listings from online classifieds site, AutoTrader.com. Rothman also arranged
insurance and warranty plans, an escrow service, and shipping and inspection services.This approach
worked wonder. Sales of cars and car parts, at a $5 billion-plus annual clip, are eBay's single largest
market. That has catapulted eBay in front of No. 1 U.S. auto dealer AutoNation in number of used
cars sold. About half of the sellers are brick-and-mortar dealers who now have a much larger
audience than their local area. “eBay is by far one of my better sources for buyers,” says Bradley
Bonifacius, Internet sales director at Dean Stallings Ford in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. And for now,
the big corporations, which still account for under 5 percent of eBay’s gross sales, seem to be
bringing in more customers then they steal. Motorola Inc., for example, helped kick off a new
wholesale business for eBay last year, selling excess and returned cell phones in large lots. Thanks to
the initiative of established companies such as Motorola, eBay’s wholesale business jumped
ninefold, to $23 million, in the first quarter.As businesses on eBay grow larger, they spur the
creation of even more businesses. A new army of merchants, for example, is making a business out
of selling on eBay for other people. From almost none a couple of years ago, these so called Trading
Assistants now number nearly 23,000. This kind of organic growth makes it exceedingly though to
predict how far the eBay economy can go. Whitman professes not to know. “We don’t actually
control this,” she admits. “We are not building this company by ourselves. We have a unique partner
– million of people.”
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Questions:
1. Why has eBay become such a successful and diverse online marketplace? Visit the eBay website
to help you answer, and check out their many trading categories, specialty sites, international
sites, and other features.
2. Why do you think eBay has become the largest online/offline seller of used cars, and the largest
online seller of certain other products, like computers and photographic equipment?
Caselet 2
It’s no secret that somewhere in a back room in the typical Fortune 500 company, there’s a team of
analytical wizards running sophisticated data mining queries that mine for gems such as data about
about the company’s best customers – those top 20 percent of clients that produce 80 percent of the
company’s profits. These jewels can be a business’s most valuable intellectual property, which
makes them very valuable to competitors. What’s to prevent that data set from walking out the door
or falling into the wrong hands? Sometimes, not much. Many companies lack the internal controls to
prevent that information from leaking. The problem is that such data is as hard to protect as it is to
find. Owens & Minor Inc., a $4 billion medical supplies distributor, counts some of the nation’s
largest health care organizations among its customers. In late 1996, it started mining data internally
using business intelligence software from Business Objects SA. “From the beginning, we were
aware of security issues around this strategic information about our operations,” says Don Stoller,
senior director of information systems at Owens & Minor. “For example, a sales executive in Dallas
should only have access to analyses from his region.” It is always possible that someone who has
legitimate access will abuse that trust, but companies can minimize that potential by strictly limiting
access to only those who need it. thus, Owens & Minor uses role-level security functions that clearly
define who has access to which data. “This meant we had to build a separate security table in our
Oracle database,” says Stoller. A few years later, when the company wanted to open its systems to
suppliers and customers, security became even more important. In 1998, Owens & Minor moved
quickly to take advantage of Web-intelligence software from Business Objects that’s designed to
Web-enable business intelligence systems. The result was Wisdom, an extranet Web portal that lets
Owens & Minor’s suppliers and customers access their own transactional data and generate
sophisticated analyses and reports from it.“It business-to-business transactions, security is key,” says
Stoller. “We had to make absolutely sure that Jhonson & Jhonson, for example, could not see any
3M’s information. This meant we had to set up specific customer and supplier security tables, and
we had to maintain new, secured database views using the Oracle DBMS and Business
Objects.”Wisdom was such a success that Owens & Minor decided to go into the intelligence
business with the launch of wisdom2 in the spring of 2000. “We capture data out of a hospital’s
materials management system and load it into our data warehouse,” Stoller explains. A hospital can
then make full use of its business-intelligence software to mine and analyze purchasing data. Owens
& Minor receives a licensing and maintenance fee for the services.Layers of security and encryption
require a considerable amount of overhead data for systems administration. Both Stoller and Michael
Rasmussen, an analyst at Giga Information Group, say that’s the main reason security concerns
about business intelligence are often swept under the carpet. The issues of authentication (identifying
the user) and authorization (what things the user is allowed to do) must be addressed, usually across
different applications, Rasmussen says, adding, “Systems administration can be a real
nightmare.”“We are going through some of this,” says David Merager, director of Web services and
corporate applications at Vivendi Universal Games Inc. (www.vugames.com). “Our business
intelligence needs more security attention.” Business intelligence reports come from two systems: an
Oracle-based for budgets on a Microsoft SQL Server database. The heart of the business intelligence
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system consists of Microsoft’s OLAP application and software from Comshare Inc. that provides the
Web-based front end for the analytics. “Our budget teams use these reports to do real-time
analyses,” says Merager. Rodger Sayles, manager of data warehousing at Vivendi Universal, says
one way to secure such a system is to assign roles to all users within the Microsoft application. Roles
determine precisely what a user is allowed to see and do and are usually managed within a directory.
If your computing architecture is amenable to a single, centralized directory that supports roles, this
may be an attractive solution. “The problem is that once you have over 40 distinct roles, you run into
performance issues, and we have identified about 70 user roles,” Sayles explains. He says there’s
way around this difficulty. “I think we are going to use a combination of Web portals and user roles.
A user would sign on through a particular Web portal, which would effectively place the user in a
role category. This reduces the overhead burden on the application,” says Sayles.
Questions:
1. Why have developments in IT helped to increase the value of the data resources of many
companies?
2. How can companies use IT to meet the challenges of data resources security?
END OF SECTION B
Section C: Applied Theory (30 marks)
• This section consists of Applied Theory Questions.
• Answer all the questions.
• Each question carries 15 marks.
• Detailed information should form the part of your answer (Word limit 200 to 250 words).
1. What potential security problems do you see in the increasing use of intranets and extranets in
business? What might be done to solve such problems? Give several examples.
2. Suppose you are a manager being asked to develop e-business and e-commerce applications to
gain a competitive advantage in an important market for your company. What reservations might
you have about doing so? Why?
END OF SECTION C
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Examination Paper MM.100
Database Management Systems
Section A: Objective Type (30 marks)
• This section consists of Multiple Choices and Short notes type questions.
• Answer all the questions.
• Part one questions carry 2 marks each & Part Two questions carry 4 marks each.
Part One:
Multiple choices:
1. The normal language of database is:
a. PHP
b. SQL
c. C++
d. Java
2. DDL, a database system language:
a. Creates table
b. Manipulates table
c. Cannot work with table
d. None
3. Symbol for one to one relationship is………………………………………………………
4. HDBMS stands for:
a. Hello DBMS
b. Hierarchical DBMS
c. Hyper DBMS
d. High DBMS
5. In Anti joining of R►S means ……………………………………………………………
Part Two:
1. What are “Foreign Keys”?
2. Differentiate between ‘DBMS’ and ‘RDBMS’.
3. Write the syntax to insert charts into a table from another table.
4. What are ‘Armstrong’s Axioms’?
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5. Write short ‘Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF)’.
END OF SECTION A
Section B: Long Questions (40 marks)
• This section consists of Long Questions.
• Answer all the questions.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Detailed information should form the part of your answer (Word limit 150 to 200 words).
1. Elaborate the testing of Serializability techniques with example.
2. Explain the working of lock manager.
3. What is deadlock? How is a deadlock detected? Enumerate the method for recovery from the
deadlock.
4. Explain why a transaction execution should be atomic. Explain ACID properties, considering the
following transaction.
Ti: read (A);
A : = A- 50;
Write (A);
Read (B);
B : = B + 50;
Write (B)
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Section C: Applied Theory (30 marks)
• This section consists of Applied Theory Questions.
• Answer all the questions.
• Each question carries 15 marks.
• Detailed information should form the part of your answer (Word limit 200 to 250 words).
1. The HR manager has decided to raise the salary for all the employees in department number 30
by 0.25. Whenever any such raise is given to the EMPLOYEES, a record for the same is
maintained in the EMP-RAISE table. It includes the employee number, the date when the raise
was given and the actual raise. Write a PL/SQL block to update the salary of each employee and
insert a record in the EMP-RAISE table.
2. Retrieve the salesman name in ‘New Delhi’ whose efforts have resulted into atleast one sales
transaction.
Table Name : SALES-MAST
Salesman-no Name City
B0001
B0002
B0003
B0004
B0005
B0006
B0007
Puneet Kumar
Pravin Kumar
Radha Krishna
Brijesh Kumar
Tushar Kumar
Nitin Kumar
Mahesh Kumar
Varanasi
Varanasi
New Delhi
New Delhi
Allahabad
Allahabad
Gr. Noida
Table Name : SALES-ORDER
Order-no Order-date Salesman-no
S0001
S0002
S0003
S0004
S0005
S0006
10-Apr-07
28-Apr-07
05-May-07
12-June-07
15-July-07
18-Aug-07
B0001
B0002
B0003
B0004
B0005
B0006
END OF SECTION C
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