What is e-Business?
e-Business simply means carrying out business processes with the assistance of technology. Perhaps surprisingly, many of us use e-business processes without realising it!
In how many modern businesses do you see a large typing pool? Indeed, can there be many busnesses today where your hear the sound of a typewriter clacking away? We've moved on through electronic typewriters to word processers and now to most people creating or initiating their own correspondence via their desktop PC or online system.
How much written/typed correspondence has switched from the postal system to fax or e-mail?
How many of us today go searching for phone boxes or rely on pagers to keep in touch? Mobile phone, call diversion, answering machines - they all feature highly in modern business process.
So, why all the hype about e-Business ?
The hype about e-Business in recent years - under the guises of e-commerce, getting online, becoming an e-business, and things like that - has been all about awareness raising.
Originally it was encouraging business owners to take-up the basics of e-business and showing a future they could aspire to. Today it is about realities.
e-Business today means looking at everyday business processes to see if they can be made any slicker, faster, more efficient, more effective, broader, more useful, more integrated, etc., through the use of e-business techniques.
The truth is, many e-business applications that could only be aspired to years ago are now firmly within the grasp of many businesses
Applying e-business to your process can help make your business work smarter and help increase your success.
The Scottish Executive view e-Business as a central plank of achieving a Smart Successful Scotland.
Government e-Procurement
Companies which provide services to UK government departments. the Scottish Executive and local authorities will find that procurement procedures will increasingly move towards the e-Procurement model. Some information about the latest moves towards this can be found here.
