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8. The e-Commerce Connectivity Craze

Buying and Selling Globally and Managing an International Supply Chain

Laurel J. Delaney

(1)Ste LL, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

—Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard

The sooner we drop the ‘e’ out of ‘e-commerce’ and just call it commerce, the better.

—Bob Willett, former President of Best Buy International and CIO of Best Buy

If you want a symbol of how technology is transforming the way we conduct business worldwide, look no further than e-commerce, which refers to buying and selling on the Internet. It’s easy to forget that as short as 15-18 ...

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