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College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
ECOM101 – E-commerce
E-commerce Project
(Part A)
First Semester 2024-2025
Submission: Thursday 26/9/ 2024= 15 Marks

Requirement:
In this project, you are required to evaluate one of the websites below based on what you learn from this course and your perspective. The evaluation will cover the different aspects of E-commerce such as business idea, website design, marketing, security … etc.
You will need to analyze the business and provide suggestions to improve the current business situation.
Current e-commerce businesses: (choose one)
https://floward.com
The following questions require critical thinking to be answered successfully. The answers to these questions will drive the ways of improvement of the current e-commerce business.
Know the business (7 marks) Each poin worth 0.7 mark
Explain the design of the system (4 marks)
What is the business?
What is the idea?
What are the type of products and/or services provided?
Where is the money?
(Introduce the e-commerce business you have chosen).
(Provide an overview of the business idea & The visioning process).
(Explain the products and services does the online store provide such as customer service, exchange and return, delivery, and payment options).
4.Explain the business statement, business vision and business objective.
(Explain the company’s business model and the revenue model. Give a general idea of how the business generates revenues)
6.Who and where is the target audience?
(Explain demographics, lifestyle, consumption patterns, etc.).
7.Characterize the marketplace
(Research the market and give an idea about the size, growth, demographics, structure, competition).
8.Describe the content of the business website
9.Conduct a SWOT analysis for the business
(Provide 3 points each)
10.Develop an e-commerce presence map.
(For example: website, email … etc. What activities does the company use these platforms for? (E.g., marketing, customer service, news…etc.).

Explain in detail the design of the system (business objectives, system functionality, information provided)
Business Objective
System Functionality
Information provided

Ex: Display goods
Digital Catalog
Dynamic text and graphics catalog

What can be improved or added into the system design? Explain the current business e-commerce features (2 mark)
Explain the business e-commerce process (2 marks)
Site Design (3 marks)
Business software (2 marks)
Payment and Security (3 marks) each point worths 1 mark
Categorize marketing and advertising strategy and method (2 marks)
Know your competitors (3 marks)
Conclude your report (2 marks)
What are the current website features? And what types of these features can be annoying to customers? Provide pictures.
(What can you do to improve the current features on the website?)

Explain in detail all the steps from the time user enters the website until the final user buys a product.
(What can be improved in the process?)

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
ECOM101 – E-commerce
E-commerce Project
(Part B)
First Semester 2024-2025
Submission: Thursday 7/11/2024= 15 Marks

Requirement:
This is a continuous activity for part A, keep working on the same website you have chosen in part A. In this part you are required to evaluate one of the websites below based on what you learn from this course and your perspective. The evaluation will cover the different aspects of ECommerce such as business idea, website design, marketing, security … etc. You will need to analyze the business and provide suggestions to improve the current business situation. The following questions require critical thinking to be answered successfully. The answers to these questions will drive the ways of improvement of the current e-commerce business.

Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful ecommerce site design (ease of use, ease of purchase, simple graphics … etc.). You are required to evaluate each factor.
(Discuss possible suggestions to improve the site design).
The development of an e-commerce website requires more interactive functionalities, such as the ability to respond to user input (name and address forms), capturing customer orders for goods and services, clearing credit card transactions on the fly, consolidating price and product databases, and even adjusting advertising on the screen based on user characteristics.
(Explain the different types of software used on the website to perform the current functionalities). What can be done to improve the software?
What are the methods of payment available in the online store?
What are the technologies used on the website to secure the online transactions?
What is the current privacy policy of the online store? Outline how the information is collected and used? (What can be added to the privacy policy? Explain why?)
(What other methods can be added? Explain why?)
(What other technologies can be added? Explain why?)
Explain the current online, offline, and social media marketing strategies of the e-commerce business? (Provide photos or screenshots of your business marketing activities, What can be done to improve the marketing aspects of the business?)
Choose a website of one competitor in the same industry (locally or globally) and compare it with your chosen company’s site. Indicate why the competitor’s website is better or worse than the chosen company’s website. (What can be done by learning from your competitor’s experience?)

Summarize the above points and include your recommendation to improve the e-commerce business.
Guidelines for the assignment part A & B:
✓ The answer sheet must include the following:
Cover page
Questions
AnswersMake sure to include the cover page with all information required.
This is a group project (4-5 students), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, research, and critical thinking.
You are required to choose one current business from the list.
Each website can be chosen by one group only.
Use font Times New Roman, 12 font size
Use 1.5 line spacing with adjust to all paragraphs (alignment).
Use the footer function to insert page number.
Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project and references.
The minimum number of required references is 5 references using APA style.
Your whole project report length should be between 1250 to 1600 words.
You must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the assignment.
Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment. Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing and word count.
Your file should be saved as Word Doc. Follow this pattern to name the file:
TWO marks will be deducted if there is no cover page
Your name_CRN_ECOM101_ Project_A or B.docx

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
ECOM101 – E-commerce
E-commerce Project
(Presentation)
First Semester 2024-2025
Submission: Thursday21/11/2024 = 10 Marks

Requirement:
Upon completing your Group Assignment – Parts A and B; in a group, you will be asked to create a powerpoint presentation of your chosen e-commerce business. Your presentation should cover all the elemnts that were discussed in the assignment as listed below:
Presentation must have the following format:
First slide: Cover Page
Business profile: Name of the businessand what is your business, target market, marketplace, products and services provided.
Explain the business system design. (Business objectives, system functionality, information provided).
Explain the current business e-commerce features.
Explain the business e-commerce process.
Explain the business software
Explain the payment and security of the chosen website
What is the marketing and advertising strategy?
Competitor’s analysis
Conclusion
References

Guidelines for the Presentation:

There must be 10 slides in the presentation.
The slides should have a clear background design, readable font size and style with appropriate color.
The power-point presentation must answer all the above parts.
Make sure to include the cover page in the first slide.
Work with the same group members
Ensure that you follow the APA style in your references.
The minimum number of required references is 5 references using APA style.
Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of presentation. Structure includes these elements presentation style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes and referencing.
Your file should be saved as a PowerPoint file and follow this pattern to name the file: Business Name_CRN_ECOM101_ Project_presentation_docx

Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
E-commerce Department
Group Project
Cover Page

Group Names:
Group IDs:

Course Title: Introduction to E-Management
Course Code: ECOM 201

Academic Year/ Semester: 2023/2024-2nd Term
CRN:

Instructor Name:

Student Grade:out of 20
Grade Level: Low/ Mid/ High

ECOM 201 Project

Overview
Suppose your group works as a virtual team in a Saudi company that deals with local and global clients. The company mainly aims to provide digital marketing services and solutions in one field (e.g., cars, real estate, perfumes, fashion, flowers, healthy food, medicines, etc.). A task has been given to you by the CEO. The task includes connecting with a Chinese brand that wants to open an office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The task is considered completed when the team proposes a strategy to the Chinese company representative and receives their feedback.
Requirements
The group needs to be divided as follows: one team manager, one representative from the Chinese brand, one technical support expert, and one or two general members.
Write a reflection on your group work process in creating the team, choosing the tools, working on the tasks, and reporting the strategy to the client.
Reflection (due by Week 10) [20 marks]
The reflection should be written after you establish a successful virtual team. The reflection should describe the process of 4 main components of virtual management: team building, tools, procedures, and task management. Please use these guidelines on how to do so:
1. Virtual Team: (4 marks- 250 words)
In this section, you need to describe the virtual team.
Name your team and specify the field you will focus on.
Who are your team members, and what are their roles?
What are the personal objectives of each member (why you joined the team)?
What is the collective goal for your team (how will your team be successful in that field)?
How the team experienced Bruce Tuckman’s five different stages of team building?
2. Virtual Tool (5 marks- 700 words)
In this section, you describe choosing a tool for your virtual team.
What are the main and complimentary virtual tools did you use to manage the tasks? (provide pictures)
Describe the features of these tools that were useful to your teamwork (provide pictures).
Why did you choose these tools? What are the other options?
Suppose your budget was SAR 10k; how did you use that budget to get the best possible tool?
How frequently does the team meet? How long is each meeting? (Provide photos of the team meetings at different times)
How the meeting minutes helped your team stay focused? (Provide an example of your team meeting minutes).
3. Virtual work dynamics (5 marks- 700 words)
How did you create a virtual office? What are the technical challenges that you faced in your work?
Give some examples of work ethics/ culture in China.
How did you utilize vacation time and holiday time?
What are the challenges that your team faced in communication? Specify how space, time, and cultural differences affected the communication process.
How did you overcome those challenges? (discuss from different roles’ perspectives).
4. Reports and presentations (5.5 marks- 500 words)
Provide an example of a proposed strategy your team worked on to make the marketing campaign successful for the Chinese company in the chosen field.
The report should be 300 words describing the status and statistics of the chosen field and how customers (target audience) can be reached. The report should have an introduction, a brief strategy, and a conclusion.
Include graphs and statistics to support your report (use local resources. If they were in Arabic, translate them).
The Chinese company representative in your team should provide his/her feedback on the report (one or two comments)
The rest of the team should address those comments.
Tell us how your teamwork was, what you would do better, and how you will thrive in the future.
5. Conclude your reflection (0.5 mark- 100 words)
Useful links:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf
APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
Guidelines for the assignment:
This is a group project (4-5 students in each group), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, collaboration and critical thinking.
Use the given template below. One mark will be deducted if there is this template is not used.
Your assignment must be supported by evidence and resources. Otherwise, your answer will not be valid.
Use at least 3 different references from the SDL including the Textbook
Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial.
Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs.
Use the footer function to insert page number.
Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.
Your project report length should be between 2000 to 2500 words.
Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor assignment structure. The structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing, and format.
Answer:

There is a long history of people representing quantitative data visually on paper in books, newspapers, magazines, and more recently digitally on computer screens, the screens of mobile devices, and other digital devices. Watch Tommy McCall’s TED Talk on the joy and ingenuity of visually representing quantitative data.
Initial Post
Discuss how Tommy McCall, and others before him, have come up with new ways of representing quantitative data and give one specific example from the TED Talk.
Come up with two variables from your observation of real life that, in your view, are related, indicate the name of these variables as well as why these variables are related; determine which variable is the dependent variable and which one is the independent variable. Draw a line graph by hand, labeling the vertical and horizontal axis consistent with your choice of variables. The line in the line graph has to represent, what, in your view, is the relationship between the two variables. Describe your graph verbally in your post (no need to upload the graph itself).

Follow the instructions in the file and solve it at the same file, Please make sure that there is no large similarity

Upon completing your Group Assignment – Parts A and B; in a group, you will be asked to create a PowerPoint presentation of your chosen e-commerce business. Your presentation should cover all the elements that were discussed in the assignment as listed below

Discussion Prompt
Our textbook’s discussion of international trade leaves open questions about the overall benefit of globalization and trade itself.
Do you agree with the notion that international trade should be expanded as much as possible? Why or why not?
Do you believe the United States benefits from international trade more than other countries? Briefly describe why you feel that way.
In 2023, the total dollar value of U.S. exports was around $3.1 trillion and the total dollar value of U.S. imports was around $3.8 trillion. There is more information on the breakdown of exports and imports by major categories in the Annual 2023 Press Highlights from the U.S. Census Bureau, available here: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/AnnualPressHighlights.pdfLinks to an external site.. Pick a statistic published in the Annual 2023 Press Highlights (for example, imports of automotive vehicles, parts, and engines were the highest on record at $458.4 billion, or the 2023 deficit with South Korea was the highest on record at $51.4 billion) and describe whether you think your chosen statistic is a “good” or “bad” thing for the U.S. economy, and why.
Replies
Please reply to the posts of at least two classmates, including in each reply both a follow-up question and a point of connection with something your classmate stated in their post.
I will give you 2 class mate comments after you post the discussion the you have to reply those classmate comments

Site Design (3 marks)
Business software (2 marks)
Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful ecommerce site design (ease of use, ease of purchase, simple graphics … etc.). You are required to evaluate each factor.
(Discuss possible suggestions to improve the site design).
The development of an e-commerce website requires more interactive functionalities, such as the ability to respond to user input (name and address forms), capturing customer orders for goods and services, clearing credit card transactions on the fly, consolidating price and product databases, and even adjusting advertising on the screen based on user characteristics.
(Explain the different types of software used on the website to perform the current functionalities). What can be done to improve the software?
https://eyewa.com

Site Design (3 marks)
Business software (2 marks)
Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful ecommerce site design (ease of use, ease of purchase, simple graphics … etc.). You are required to evaluate each factor.
(Discuss possible suggestions to improve the site design).
The development of an e-commerce website requires more interactive functionalities, such as the ability to respond to user input (name and address forms), capturing customer orders for goods and services, clearing credit card transactions on the fly, consolidating price and product databases, and even adjusting advertising on the screen based on user characteristics.
(Explain the different types of software used on the website to perform the current functionalities). What can be done to improve the software?
https://eyewa.com

ECOM 201 Group Presentation

Group Presentation (due by Week 10) [10 marks)
This is a group presentation and must be done in-class or virtually using Power Point or any other tool. The presentation should reflect your answers and experience in Assignment 2 (the project). Please refer to the following criteria:
Create 10 slides maximum
The slides should contain the following: Group members names, IDs, and CRN
A brief description of the virtual team
A brief description of the virtual tool
A brief description of the Virtual work dynamics
A brief description of the proposed reports
Suggestions for future teams.

Support your presentation with pictures from your virtual teamwork.
Each group has 10m (8 minutes presentation + 2 minutes Q & A).
Each student presents for ~2 minutes to divide the time equally between group members.
The presentation should be written and presented in English.
Upload the slides to Blackboard under the Assignment 3 tab by the specified due date.