Electronic Business (e-Business) is recognised as being able to help organisations in the construction industry to achieve competitiveness and substantial benefits. However, the uptake of e-business in the construction industry has been relatively limited and ineffective. Previous research covers the body of knowledge about how to identify the value of e-business once it has been created or how to identify the capabilities that can create value. There is no guidance available to help organisations to maximise their leverage by investing intelligently and matching the size of their demand for e-business solutions to the size of the market they plan to supply. This research aims to identify the strategic e-business needs and requirements of organisations in the construction industry; it helps them to scan or position their current situation, and provide a holistic approach to assist them in developing an executable e-business strategy. In order to achieve the aim and the formulated objectives, a multi-methodological research design and a pragmatic mixed-methods approach, involving a combination of both quantitative and qualitative datasets, were adopted to investigate the e-business practices of organisations in the industry. These include an exploratory investigation (an industry survey with 250 industry organisations), and an explanatory investigation (four case studies with specific industry end-user companies). The collected data was analysed and problems were identified; the elements for a holistic approach to manage e-business implementation emerged. Subsequently, a Strategic e-Business Framework was developed to provide a holistic approach for organisations in the construction industry to plan, execute and review their e-business strategies. The Framework enables organisations to consider the medium term (three to five years), long-term (over five to ten years), and emergent needs to derive business value. The key features of the Framework include six phases and phase gates, five functional factors, and 23 activities. The six phases include Analyse Situation, Establish Vision, Define Critical Success Factors (CSFs), Develop Action Plan, Implement Action Plan, and Review Strategy. The phases were defined to guide the IT leaders in carrying out consistent e-business planning. The outputs of each phase (phase gates) were defined to assist IT leaders in the review of procedures during their e-business implementation. The functional factors include management, people, process, technology and external environment. The factors were identified to address every facet of an organisation, and obtain collaboration efforts from both internal and external. They also ensure organisations have the opportunities to improve capabilities in these areas, and make them ready for immediate e-business implementation. Five groups of people or teams were assigned to the activities. The five groups were the Senior Management Board, IT Managers and their teams, Middle Level Management, Lower Level Management and other End-users, and external collaborators. The activities were categorised in order to provide a basis for organisations to utilise their resources, specifically human resource. Finally, a feedback loop was defined to enable the Framework to act as a cycle for going through repeatedly, which makes the continuous improvement of e-business implementation possible within organisations and provides a learning and feedback function that ensures lessons to be learned from past e-business implementation. The evaluation of the Framework was conducted via six structured interviews with industry practitioners. The findings indicated that the industry practitioners welcomed the Framework and considered it as a positive step towards e-business management.

M.Sc. (Computer Science) / As the world enters the new millennium, we are experiencing one of the most important changes since the industrial revolution - the move to an Internet-based society. Traditional business channels are moving to a new platform of interaction that is called Electronic Business (EB). Electronic Business is becoming a significant business tool, provided that businesses understand the benefits, the application areas and impacts of EB, and can apply these concepts optimally. The problem with many businesses, especially SMMEs (Small Medium and Micro Enterprises), is that they are ignorant to many EB-related concepts, how EB can assist their business needs, and how to apply EB into their business components. Various solutions for EB exist in the industry, which are very comprehensive and complex. However, with the constant wave of mergers, acquisitions and new IT-companies forming, as well as the myriad of new solutions being developed, many businesses are not sure which solution would suit their business best, and which solution provider would be the best to approach. What businesses need is an understanding of EB and guidelines on how to start becoming EB focused. The principle aim of the Enterprise-Wide Electronic Business (EWEB) Framework developed is to form the bridge between a traditional business and an electronic business. This is achieved by defining many EB-related concepts and providing guidelines on how to streamline business processes with technology in moving to an EB platform. The EWEB Framework targets this from three perspectives. Firstly, the EWEB Framework follows a top-down approach to EB, targeting business processes across the enterprise as well as business issues from strategic, architectural and infrastructural levels. This allows EWEB to be applicable to all types of business processes and businesses needs. Secondly, the EWEB Framework also consists of business processes that are common across all industries. This allows EWEB to be applicable to all types of businesses...

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<p>The main objective of this thesis is to study how the structures of a sell dialog, via a web shop, should be designed in order to support and inspire the customer. To get the answer to this question I use a qualitative and quantitative method. The qualitative method is applied in connection with different interviews. The quantitative method is used to analyze different answers given from those who are interviewed. I also use the deductive method due to my interest of studying how reality can relate to the theories with the choice of the subject.</p><p>Moreover, this thesis is structured by three main perspectives; company, customers and techniques. The theoretical part of the thesis includes definitions and theories about electronic business, customers’ behaviour and technique, UML (Unified Modelling Language), which is a visual syntax for visualising, specifying, constructing and documenting system engineering, and UP (Unified Process), which is a method that complements UML. Furthermore, the empirical part of the thesis includes interviews with Chris Jangelöv and Patrik Cardell (Visma Spcs), who are representing the companys’ perspective on a sell dialog via a web shop. For the customers’ perspective on the subject, I collect and outline the interviews from Visma Spcs customers. Moreover, I review the interview with David Nadel, where he discusses the UML and UP techniques and also electronic business in general.</p><p>As for the results, I come to the conclusion that a web shop should be structured from a customer´s perspective and his/her inquiries concerning the products and services. UML and UP, however, are techniques that focus on the structuring of data and processes without taking the developing dialogue with the customer into serious account. These techniques do not address issues of why a web shop is used as it is, UML and UP only apply what a web shop can look like and how it could be used. Therefore, I argue that there is a lack of connection between the UML and UP techniques and the real live user and actual use. I also reached the conclusion that there should be three main building blocks when structuring a sell dialog via a web shop. These are; structure, information and navigation.</p>

The interoperability of the electronic documents exchanged in eBusiness applications is an important problem in industry. Currently, this problem is handled by the mapping experts who understand the meaning of every element in the involved document schemas and define the mappings among them which is a very costly and tedious process. In order to improve electronic document interoperability, the UN/CEFACT produced the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) which defines a common structure and semantic properties for document artifacts. However, at present, this document content information is available only through text-based search mechanisms and tools. In this thesis, the semantics of CCTS based business document standards is explicated through a formal, machine processable language as an ontology. In this way, it becomes possible to compute a harmonized ontology, which gives the similarities among document schema ontology classes of different document standards through both the semantic properties they share and the semantic equivalences established through reasoning. However, as expected, the harmonized ontology only helps discovering the similarities of structurally and semantically equivalent elements. In order to handle the structurally different but semantically similar document artifacts, heuristic rules are developed describing the possible ways of organizing simple document artifacts into compound artifacts as defined in the CCTS methodology. Finally, the equivalences discovered among document schema ontologies are used for the semi-automated generation of XSLT definitions for the translation of real-life document instances.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjama efektyviausia elektroninės papuošalų parduotuvės interneto reklama. Pirmame skyriuje aprašoma internetinės reklamos istorija, sąsajos su marketingu, internetinės reklamos tikslai, funkcijos, komunikacijos priemonės bei vartotojų segmentavimas. Antrame skyriuje jau plačiau nagrinėjamos internetinės reklamos formos ir jų taikymo ypatumai. Trečiame skyriuje apžvelgiami ir analizuojami internetinės reklamos tyrimai pasaulyje ir Lietuvoje, autorinių darbų pardavimų internete tyrimai bei apžvelgiamos lankomiausios svetainės internete. Ketvirtajame skyriuje aprašyta ir analizuojama atlikta anketinė apklausa apie patirtį perkant elektroninėje parduotuvėje, pomėgį pirkti ar dovanoti papuošalus bei labiausiai dėmesį atkreipiančius internetinės reklamos būdus. Išnagrinėjus internetinės reklamos būdus, jų paplitimą bei galimybes yra pateikiamos išvados bei siūlymai. / Most efficient internet advertisement of electronic jewellery shop is researched in the final master thesis. The first chapter describes the history of internet advertisement, links to marketing, internet advertisement objectives, functions, communications and consumer segmentation. The second section is further explored in the form of internet advertisement and application features. The third chapter provides an overview and analysis of internet advertisement research in the world and Lithuania, works of authorship sales online surveys and overview most attractive web sites. The fourth chapter describes and analyzes the completed questionnaire on the experience of buying online shop, buy or present jewelry and most attractive ways of internet advertising techniques. After exploring online advertising methods, distribution and access are presented conclusions and suggestions.

The main objective of this thesis is to study how the structures of a sell dialog, via a web shop, should be designed in order to support and inspire the customer. To get the answer to this question I use a qualitative and quantitative method. The qualitative method is applied in connection with different interviews. The quantitative method is used to analyze different answers given from those who are interviewed. I also use the deductive method due to my interest of studying how reality can relate to the theories with the choice of the subject. Moreover, this thesis is structured by three main perspectives; company, customers and techniques. The theoretical part of the thesis includes definitions and theories about electronic business, customers’ behaviour and technique, UML (Unified Modelling Language), which is a visual syntax for visualising, specifying, constructing and documenting system engineering, and UP (Unified Process), which is a method that complements UML. Furthermore, the empirical part of the thesis includes interviews with Chris Jangelöv and Patrik Cardell (Visma Spcs), who are representing the companys’ perspective on a sell dialog via a web shop. For the customers’ perspective on the subject, I collect and outline the interviews from Visma Spcs customers. Moreover, I review the interview with David Nadel, where he discusses the UML and UP techniques and also electronic business in general. As for the results, I come to the conclusion that a web shop should be structured from a customer´s perspective and his/her inquiries concerning the products and services. UML and UP, however, are techniques that focus on the structuring of data and processes without taking the developing dialogue with the customer into serious account. These techniques do not address issues of why a web shop is used as it is, UML and UP only apply what a web shop can look like and how it could be used. Therefore, I argue that there is a lack of connection between the UML and UP techniques and the real live user and actual use. I also reached the conclusion that there should be three main building blocks when structuring a sell dialog via a web shop. These are; structure, information and navigation.

The aim of my thesis is creation of a company electronic business model. The first part includes Internet background characterization and its users. Afterwards I focus on the electronic commerce and identify important parameters for an electronic business draft. Then follows an analysis of the present state of a company FOTO Sláma. I create the suitable electronic business model based on proposed strategies. In conclusion the benefits of my proposed model for FOTO Sláma are evalueted.

The aim of this thesis is to create a business plan. The subject of found is e-shop with original paintings. First part of the thesis consists of theoretical base, thesis conti-nues through a questionnaire survey to create a real business plan. The last mentio-ned part contains my recommendations and suggestions to the problems in each parts.

Topic of this thesis is to create a practicable business plan for foundation e-shop with hair. Specifically, the hair used for extensions. Company will be founded as limited liability company. The theoretical part deals with setting up company and creating business plan.