E-business Model for a Micro-Enterprise

The aim of this paper is to develop general guidelines for implementing eBisuness in a specific micro-enterprise, to give ideas of possible solutions and present a time-table that the tasks can be fitted in.

Business type

Field: book retailing
Size: single store, 5 employees
Location: Savilahdenkatu, Mikkeli, Finland
Supplier: Finnish book wholeseller
IT technologies present:
computerized cash machines, sales’ data stored in a data-base
electronic data base of items
medium speed internet connection, used mainly for business e-mail correspondence
simple accounting program operated by the firm’s accountant
Clients: local people: 1) literature fans, 2) students, 3) parents buying books for children, 4) gift seekers, 5) “book collectors”- not necessarily readers
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