Author:
Guendalina Capece
Affiliation:
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Keyword(s):
Distinctive competencies, e-business, metric, parameters, decision making, distinctivity.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business and Social Applications
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e-Business
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Software Engineering
;
Virtual Organizations
Abstract:
The drive to introduce this new parameter arose when we asked ourselves two crucial questions about capabilities to obtain and maintain distinctivity in the Internet era. The first question is: “how can nowadays an e-business idea be inimitable, non-substitutable, non-transferable and innovative and different from the existing ones?”. While the second question is: “how this can be measured?”. In this paper we propose an answer to these questions by defining a metrics and a parameter, called e-distinctivity, that quantitatively measures the fundamental distinctivity aspects of an e-business idea. To evaluate the e-distinctivity of an e-business idea we used a reference user panel. The assessments and results on the parameter have been evaluated on a panel of eighteen e-business enterprises, taken as reference examples of successful implementation of e-business ideas. At the end of the paper we finally discuss the results and underline the advantages of this methodology.