Session 4 Agenda

Session Date Topic Resource Materials/Due Dates/Comments

4

July 27th

  

Topic discussion: "Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Atomic Business Models for Networked Enterprises"

 

1:00pm-1:15pm

Preview of session   

8:15am-9:00am

Strategy Briefings: Brent, Russ, Alex Objective 1

9:00am-9:15am

Break  

9:15am-10:15am

Topic discussion #4: "Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Atomic Business Models for e-Commerce" Objective 2

10:15am-11:00am

Debate #2 Objective 3

11:00am-11:15am

Break  

11:15am-11:40am

Strategy Briefings: Heather, Michael Objective 1

11:40am-12:10am

Case discussion on NIBCO

 Objective 4

 

 

 

Learning Objectives


 


Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

Objective 1: 

Articulate the strategy of an online firm or the NE part of an established firm

Identify metrics used to determine meeting of strategic goals

Objective 2: 

Discuss differences between an industry focus and an internal firm focus with respect to strategy

Describe the "Resource-based View of the Firm" (RBV)

Relate RBV to the concept of core competencies

List the resources needed to be EC-competitive

Argue the case for how firms can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, including IT infrastructures

Describe how information asymmetries created through intelligent use of proprietary data can become a sustainable competitive advantage

Discuss 8 atomic e-business models, including who owns relationship, data, & transaction in each model

Objective 3:   

Articulate the arguments for and against the proposition: "Resolved: B2B strategies are fundamentally different from B2C strategies." 

Objective 4: 

Discuss the strategic advisability of buying and implementing an ERP at NIBCO