E-business is becoming more and more of a pivotal cornerstone in the global marketplace. Countries have stepped up to the demands of internet infrastructure and have met the challenges of an ever increasing population of internet users and shoppers.
After 2006, major advances have taken place in e-business. The main e-business initiatives are ICT user skills, ICT practitioner skills and e-business skills. These skills e have made the e-business operations of the organizations very efficient (Technology for Innovation / Information & Communication Technology Industries and E-Business, 2008). The ICT practitioner skills have advanced the designing, researching, integrating, installing and strategic planning in business. The ICT user skills provides tools of common software and specific business supporting tools for the improvement of e-business functioning. The E-business skills have provided several efficient and effective measures to improve the performance of e-business.
Will we one day see the electronic marketplace surpass the brick-and-mortar locations in revenue and numbers? I think this may not be an unlikely scenario.
Reference
Technology for Innovation / Information & Communication Technology Industries and E-Business, (2008). Retrieved February 14, 2009, from http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/ict-skills.htm