Talk:Technological Driving Forces
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Name: Increasing Use of e-Commerce
What: Selling products or services over the Internet is adding more and more to companies’ revenues and nations' GDPs.
Enablers: auction sites like eBay, market sites like Betfair.com, and commercial trading sites such as Dell.com, Amazon.com or B2B sites
Inhibitors: taxes, currency exchange rates, lower consumer confidence
Paradigms: shopping without leaving your living room, lower procurement costs
Experts: Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman
Timing: the late 1990’s saw the rapid adoption of e-commerce.
Web resources: www.dell.com, www.ebay.com, www.amazon.com