Business to Business Electronic Commerce Panel
Submitted by Peter Roden of MIT
Description
Most commercial activity today using the World Wide Web is focused on the
consumer marketplace, offering primarily services such as electronic shopping,
subscription information services, and entertainment.
The next major transformation will be when businesses rely on electronic
commerce for dramatically reducing their transaction and labor costs while
radically improving their overall processes.
This change will revolutionize our traditional understanding of the supply
or value chain for the ordering, distribution, delivery, and payment for
goods and services, and permanently alter our concepts of a global economy.
Format
We hope to engage the audience through a lively conversation about
business-to-business use of electronic commerce over the World Wide Web.
Collectively, we will discuss:
- what is meant by "business-to-business electronic commerce"?
- what activities exist today on the WWW that fit this definition?
- how will electronic commerce radically change the supply chain?
- why are business-to-business transactions moving towards electronic
commerce using WWW technology?
- what historical developments led to this revolution?
- what lessons have been learned from some of the pioneering pilot
projects?
- what are the barriers to the success of business-to-business electronic
commerce?
- what does the future hold for the World Wide Web and
business-to-business
electronic commerce?
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