Project Description:
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You are an E-Commerce consultant and have been contacted by the owner of an established high street jeweller. She currently has one shop in a major city in your region, where she sells a range of high price, exclusive watches and jewellery.
She is keen to explore the possibility of setting up an e-commerce website (provisionally called TOTW – Timepieces On The Web) in order to sell a variety of timepieces including watches and clocks online.
She intends, in the first instance, to sell only a limited number of timepieces online, which break down into the following categories:
? Exclusive watches;
? Children’s watches;
? Clocks for the home.
She already has agreements to act as an agent on behalf of the following watchmakers:
? Exclusive – Rolex, Omega, Tag and Breitling;
? Children – Cactus and Speedo;
? Clocks – Karlsson and London Clock Company.
The owner is keen to explore the potential for e-commerce to grow her business. In particular she wishes to gain an understanding of the following issues:
? How a SWOT analysis might help to gain a better insight into whether the proposed business model of selling timepieces online is appropriate as an e-commerce application.
? How to ensure that the TOTW e-commerce site is able to stand out from the competition faced from other online watch and clock retailers.
? The possible countermeasures that can be employed to address the range of online security threats that she has read much about.
? How to measure the benefits that can be delivered through the launch of an e-commerce site.
