Faculty of Management MBA Program

Electronic Commerce
Course Schedule and Lecture Notes
Fall 1998
Barbara L. Marcolin
[9 September 1998] Admin
[16 September 1998] EC Intro
[23 September 1998] Technology 1
[30 September 1998] Technology 2
[7 October 1998] Security
[14 October 1998] Presentations
[21 October 1998] Payments
[28 October 1998] Banking
[4 November 1998] Retailing
[11 November 1998] Reading Week
[18 November 1998] Publishing
[25 November 1998] Opportunities
 [2 December 1998] Presentations
[Assignments]
[Participants]
[Tools for the course]
[EC Class Fall 1996]
[EC Class Winter 1998]
[Navigation Map]
NOTE:
Thanks to John Mooney and Blake Ives
for some graphics, many links and the general format of this page.

9 September - Finalized

Topic: Course Administration and Overview

Textbook: Kalakota & Whinston's Electronic Commerce: A Manager's Guide

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Kalakota & Whinston, chapter 1

Lecture Notes for Today:

Introductory Lecture Notes Here. (in Powerpoint 95)

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16 September - Finalized

Topic: EC Introduction

Guest Speaker for Today:

  • Roger Milley
  • MBA Thesis Student and IS Staff Member, Shell Canada
  • Perspective: Consumer to Business Web Interfaces
  • Title: How does the web add value to marketing activities?

Readings for Today:

  1. Read any one of George Guilder's work from his index. One option is the "The Coming Software Shift."

Browse for Today:

Technology: [Internet | WWW | Client-Server ]
Concept: [Electronic Commerce | Virtual Organizations | Development Guidelines]
Skills: [Browsers | Search Engines | HTML | E-Mail | Lists | Boilerplates]
Application: [ISWorld Net | ECOMM Course Page | Oracle's Approach]

Lecture Notes for Today:

Roger Milley's Presentation (in Powerpoint 4)

Metamorphosis Lecture Notes (in Powerpoint 95)

Metamorphosis Lecture Notes (in Acrobat 3.0 PDF format)

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23 September - Finalized

Topic: Internet Overview, WWW Applications

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Chapters 2 & 3 from Kalakota & Whinston, EC: A Manager's Guide.

Browse for Today:

Find some sites of interest to you.

Lecture Notes for Today:

Technology 1 Lecture Notes (in Powerpoint 95)

Software Links Here

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30 September - Finalized

Topic: WWW-Concepts and Technology

Guest Speaker for Today:

Martin Stares, President
Greyfriars Consulting Group Inc.

Company Mission:
"Better ways to make Intranets for business collaboration"

Demonstration Purpose:
Describe development tools to harness the power of the Internet

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Kalakota & Whinston, Chapter 4 WWW Concepts and Technology
  2. Read Kalakota & Whinston, Chapter 5 Firewalls and Transaction Security

Lecture Notes for Today:

Technology 2 Lecture Notes Here. (in Powerpoint 95)


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7 October - Finalized

Topic: Encryption and Application Security

Readings for Today:

  1. We are merging this evening with the past two weeks lectures. So will talk about encryption and security surrounding technology and business applications. Catch up on Chapters 4 and 5 if you are behind.

Lecture Notes for Today:

Browse these to see their ordering systems:

Case: J. C. Penney: Fashioning a Retailing Nervous System

Case: Harley-Davidson Dealer

  1. Check out the "order form."
  2. How does this shopping site compare to JC Penny in terms of content presentation?
  3. How does this shopping site compare to JC Penny in terms of security? (HINT: try to order something on both systems, but be careful not to send the form. Just look at them.)

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14 October

Topic: Present tool pages

Assignments Due: Friday October 16, 1998 at 4 pm.

Presentation Format:

Each student will give a quick summary of their EC concept. The presentation will:
  1. Be Informal. No suits. No glossy slides.
  2. Focus on sharing knowledge with fellow classmates.
  3. Relate the concept to theirs or others organizational situations.
  4. Provide only an overview - try to summarize in general terms and not too much technical details.
  5. Provde broad questions/issues for the class to ponder.


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21 October

Topic: Electronic Payment Systems

Guest Speaker for Today:

  • Ted Billo, Director, Electronic Commerce
    Calgary Airport Authority
  • Discussing their EC Logistics Center

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Kalakota & Whinston, Chaper 6, Electronic Payment Systems

Cases: Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, and OpenMarket.

See if you can locate others.

Lecture Notes Here in Powerpoint 95

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28 October - Tentative

Topic: EC and Banking

Assignments Due Today:


Notify Barb of your Concept Page Topic

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Kalakota & Whinston's Chaper 7

Browse for Today:

Since the book covers general issues and more specific US examples, today's preparation emphasizes the Canadian environment.
Sympatico has a comprehensive listing of Canadian financial services and the specific Canadian players:

After you reach the Sympatico home page, choose "Personal Finance" from the box near the top left corner (to see the whole list in the box just click on the arrow symbol). After making your choice, then click on "GO" to access the page. When you get to the Personal Finance page, look in the Suggested Sites, which is located near the bottom left corner, for "General" and click on this link. You will be at General Banking Page (www.ab.sympatico.ca:80/Contents/Finance/banking.html).

Browse through this site, looking for banks and trust companies (there is a list near the bottom). Identify Internet strategies, current state of Internet readiness and impending issues or challenges for a few companies. You might try the following companies:

For your interest, there is a more general banking page if you click on the "Our Web Guide" button of the Sympatico Home Page. This will take you to the contents page where you can find under the "business" title "Financial Institutions." After clicking on Financial Institutions you will be at a thorough overview of Canadian institutions.

Lecture notes are here. (in Powerpoint 95)

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4 November - Tentative

Topic: EC and Retailing

Readings for Today:

  1. Read Kalakota & Whinston, Chapter 8

Browse for Today:

  • Find an online mall and preview its range of stores, services and methods of doing business.
  • How are these online malls competing with the physical malls and other shopping experience?
  • Locate one company (which we have not already featured in class) that is pursuing web-based retailing. Be prepared to explain its approach.
  • check out Virtual Vineyards

Lecture notes for Today: Online Retailing including Virtual Vineyards. (in Powerpoint 95)

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11 November - Finalized

Topic: Reading Week

There is no formal class.

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18 November - Tentative

Topic: EC and Online Publishing

Readings for Today:

  1. Read K & W Chapter 9, EC and Online Publishing

Browse for Today:

  1. The Canadian Federal Government's information archives called Strategis. What issues are raised by this site?
  2. What is the Uof Calgary Library system doing?
  3. Compare Pointcast and Pathfinder
  4. Compare the business models of Amazon and a physical bookstore, such as Chapters.
  5. Locate sites that discuss some of the Digital Copyright issues.

Lecture Notes for Today: Online Publishing Notes. (in Powerpoint 95)

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25 November - Tentative

Topic: Information Businesses and Opportunities

Readings for Today:

  1. "Small Fry Go Online." (Barb has a copy.)
  2. Skim K & W Chapter 10, 11 adn 12. Skim means read the headings.

Browse for Today:

  1. Refresh your knowledge with the Marimba site as we discussed in class last week.
  2. Try to outline how Marimba's tools could be used in your company OR the retail industry OR the financial services industry.
  3. Consider what types of business opportunities may exist for the business areas covered in today's K & W readings - supply chain management, customer asset management and manufacturing.
  4. Review the topics covered during the course and identify business opportunities that might exist in these areas.

Lecture Notes for Today: Information Opportunities. (in Powerpoint 95)

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2 December - Tentative

Topic: Concept Paper Presentations

In class, each student will give a quick summary of their EC concept.
The presentation will:
  1. Be Informal. No suits. No glossy slides.
  2. Focus on sharing knowledge with fellow classmates.
  3. Relate the concept to theirs or others organizational situations.
  4. Provide only an overview - try to summarize in general terms and not too much technical details.
  5. Provde broad questions/issues for the class to ponder.

Assignments Due This Week:

Concept Paper is Due December 4, 1998 at 4p.m.



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Assignments: Fall 1998

Overall Description
Assignment 1: Tool Page Due: Friday October 16, 1998
Assignment 2: Concept Paper and Page Due: Friday December 4, 1998

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Tools for the Course

Topic: Pages with Interesting Links

Technology Lecture Notes Here (in Powerpoint)

Software Links Here

Topic: How to...

How to connect to AIX through a Browser FTP:

  1. Start your Browser
  2. In the URL Location of the browser, type:
    ftp://aixusername@acs.ucalgary.ca

    For instance, mine would be ftp://marcolin@acs.ucalgary.ca

  3. You will be prompted for your AIX password.
  4. The list presented is the files and directories in your AIX account. Click on the directories to move there, and click on the files to view them in the browser.
  5. Uploading and downloading from hear is as easy as drag and drop. For instance, left click and hold a .gif file, then drag it to your desktop or your "My Computer" directory (that had been opened previously), dropping it where you want the copy. Uploading works in reverse.

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Participant List: Fall 1998

Barbara L. Marcolin

- send email to @ucalgary.ca

Send Barb the updated information for these links


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Creator: Barbara L. Marcolin . Send me mail: marcolin@acs.ucalgary.ca.
Last updated: 1 September 1998. Although every attempt will be made to keep this information up-to-date, its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.