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Lecture 10: Analysis, Design and Implementation. B1 – Strategic and tactical tools for e-business Philip Holst Center for applied ICT Copenhagen Business School. Analysis. Learning outcomes. Summarize approaches for analysing requirements for e-business systems. Management issues.
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Lecture 10:Analysis, Design and Implementation B1 – Strategic and tactical tools for e-business Philip Holst Center for applied ICT Copenhagen Business School
Learning outcomes • Summarize approaches for analysing requirements for e-business systems
Management issues • Understanding processes and information flows to improve service delivery • What are the critical success factors for analysis and design of e-business systems? • What is the balance between requirements for usable and secure systems and the costs of designing them in this manner?
Workflow management • “the automation of a business process, in whole or part during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules” • WfMC (1996) • Administrative workflow • Production workflows
Typicalfunctions in workflow management • Assigning tasks to people • Reminding people of their tasks and the sequence they should be performed in • Allowing collaboration between people sharing tasks • Retrieve information needed for performing tasks • Providing managers with an overview of the status of each task
Processmodeling • the processes and their constituent sub-processes • the dependencies between processes • the inputs (resources) needed by the processes and the outputs
Ressource, events, agents (REA) model • Proposed by William E. McCarthy in 1982 as an accounting system for the computer age • goods, services or money, i.e., RESOURCES • business transactions or agreements that affect resources, i.e., EVENTS • people or other human agencies (other companies, etc.), i.e., AGENTS
Use-casemodeling • Analysis from the useperspective. • Identifying the actorswhointeractwith the system • Describing scenarios of use and linkingactors to use-cases
Data modeling • Identifying: • Entities – the groupings in the domain • Attributes – the characteristics of the entities • Relationships – the connection between entities
Learningoutcomes Identify key elements of approaches to improve the interface design and security design of e-commerce systems.
The online customerexperience Your competitors website is just one click away!
Approches to design • Participatory Design • Contextual design • Human-centered design processes for interactive systems (ISO 13407 Model, 1999)
Usability ”An engineering approach to web design to ensure the user interface of the site is learnable, memorable, error free, efficient, and gives user satisfaction. It incorporates testing and evaluation to ensure the best use of navigation and links to access information in the shortest possible time. A companion process to information architecture.” (Jakob Nielsen, 2000)
Goals for usability (Sharp et al. 2007) • Effective to use • Efficient to use • Safe to use • Easy to learn • Easy to remember • Good utility
Someusability design principles (Nielsen 2001) • Visibility of system status • Match between system and the real world • User control and freedom • Consistency and standards • Help users recognize, diagnose and recover from errors • Error prevention • Recognition rather than recall • Flexibility and efficiency of use • Aesthetic and minimalist design • Help and documentation
Accessibility • Size of display • Type of browser • Resolution • Mobile acces
Security – types of ”attacks” • Malware • Phishing • Denial-of-service (DoS) attack • Virus • Hacking
Security - countermeasures • Information security management systems • Antivirus • Firewall • Encryption • Information security policy • Security standards (e.g.ISO 17799) • Ethical hacker (White hat hackers)
Security - Securetransactions • SecureSocketLayer (SSL) • Virtual Private Network (VPN) • Digital signatures • Certificates (e.g. Verisign)
Learningoutcomes • Produce a plan to minimize the risks involved with the launch phase of an e-business application • Define a process for the effective maintenance of an e-business system • Create a plan to measure the effectiveness of an e-business application
Management issues • What actions can we take to minimize the risks during implementation? • What are the critical success factors? • How do we transition from previous systems to a new e-business system? • What techniques are available to measure the success of our implementation?
Technicalimplementationissues • Acquisition techniques • Site implementation tools • Content management and updating • Localization • System changeover • Evaluation and monitoring
Acquisitionmethods • In-housedevelopment (Bespokedevelopment) • Highlytailored solution • Customized standard packaged solution (Off-the-shelf) • Hosted • E-commerce servers
Common web developmentapplications and frameworks A survey of the application frameworks used by Fortune 1000 companies in 2007Source: Port80 software (www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000appservers)
Usabilityevaluation • Examples of usability evaluation methods • Expert reviews • Heuristics • Usability evaluation • Examples of dimensions of usability evaluation • Effectiveness – can the users complete their tasks correctly and completely? • Productivity (Efficiency) – are tasks completed in an acceptable time? • Satisfaction – are the users satisfied with the interaction
Content management system (CMS) • Helpseasyauthoring • Publicationworkflow • Versioning • Tracking and monitoring
Performance measurement ”the process of quantifying the efficiency and effectiveness of past actions throughacquisition, collation, sorting, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of appropriate data” Neely et al. (2002)
Commonmeasurements • Uniquevisitors • Visits • Page impression • Ad impressions • Ad clicks