- Define the meaning and scope of e-business and e-commerce and their different elements

- Summarize the main reason for adopting e-commerce and e-business and barriers that may
restrict adoption
- Outline the ongoing business challenges of managing e-business and e-commerce in an
organization
The issues for managers raised:
- How do we explain the scope and implications of e-business and e-commerce to staff?
- What is the full range of benefits of introducting e-business and what are the risks?
- How do we evaluate our current e-business capabilities?

When it all started?

Sir Tim Berners – Lee was one who created first website (http://info.cern.ch) in 1991. This
innovation changed organization usage of internet and all opportunities of it. That was first step
in developing e-businesses. This step made e-business grow fast, with new tehnologies, models
and communication approaches. Google is good example of developing sistem since 1998 that
has billions of pages indexed and so much additional servicies.

But, we can not forget sites like: amazon, ebay, yahoo, hotmail, blogger, alibaba, myspace, skype,
youtube etc.