E-Business Summary

E-Business is not new – it is another way of improving efficiency and reducing costs by using electronic systems. As such, it is not a stand alone part of a business and has to be integrated with existing business processes, existing IT systems and be supported by the creation of a coherent e-culture across the company. This isn’t something that can be done overnight and necessarily takes time.

The staggered adoption of these 5 stages (e-mail, web access a website and local/remote company networks) can work as a step-by-step strategy to e-Business, slowly introducing an e-Business culture to your company. Alternatively, you can single out any element as being the most important to your company.

At its most effective, e-Business will shorten the conventional delay from enquiries to replies, supply to sales and sales to delivery. The optimum set-up, with localised and remote networks, will go further still and reduce the gap between your company’s on-line presence and the electronic systems that you use to run the business, making the whole business run more smoothly, with less need for human involvement and less room for error. However, a gradual approach to the adoption of electronic methods is not only safer, with less risk of damaging the existing business practices, but it is also cheaper.

Gordon Bishop, NetComposites. First Published in Reinforced Plastics