MSEC ORIENTATION AUGUST 21, 2003 COPYRIGHT © 2003 MICHAEL I. SHAMOS MSEC Orientation 2003 Michael...

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COPYRIGHT © 2003 MICHAEL I. SHAMOS

MSEC Orientation 2003

Michael I. ShamosCo-Director

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Is eCommerce dead?

SOURCE: PWC

May 12, 2003

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Which is the largestused-car dealer in the U.S.?

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The Internet Bubble

NASDAQ 19-YR CHART

NORMAL GROWTH

BUBBLE

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What Happened?

• New Technology• Gold Rush• “Irrational Exuberance”• Disdain for profit• Fraud by Stock Brokers

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The Bubble Expanded

NASDAQ 9-YR CHART

NORMAL

GROWTH

GOVERNMENTINTERNET

SPONSORSHIPENDS 5/95

INTEGRATEDWEB BROWSER

6/98

AMAZON IPO5/97

EBAY IPO5/98

WEBMETHODS IPO 2/00

NASDAQPEAK 3/00

WEBVANIPO 11/99

ETOYS IPO 5/99

BLODGETT AMAZONPREDICTION 12/98

PAINE WEBBERQUALCOMM

PREDICTION 12/99

SEPT. 11, 2001

WEBVAN BKRPT 7/01

ETOYS BKRPT 3/01

BOO.COM BKRPT 5/00

KITA

JULY 24, 2003


373

543

339

77 66

(projected)

10

U.S. Initial Public Offerings

Time2001 2002 2003200019991998

NASDAQIXIC

5000

2004

1000

MAY 12 CLOSE1541.40

MARCH 10, 20005048.62

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The Index Phenomenon

• Most companies in an industry can’t beat their stock index

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eCommerce Forecasting• B2B (World)

– Prediction in 1999: $1.3 trillion by 2003– Actual: $2.4 trillion (50% U.S.)– 2004: online B2B 10% of World Economic Product

• B2C (U.S)– Prediction in 1999: $108 billion by 2003– Actual: $95 billion (including 9/11, recession & war)

• Productivity– Prediction in 2000: $250 billion/yr by 2005– Actual pace: $450 billion/yr– Average saving $4,500/household, triple the tax cut

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Auto Industry

• 60% of new-car buyers use the Internet• 53% use the Internet before a test drive• “Internet-influenced”• 48 million U.S. users visited automotive websites

in just March 2003• 4% of new-car buyers actually purchase on the

Internet

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Retail

• 4Q (Christmas) online sales up 40% in 2002• Overall retail up 34% in 2002 to $48B• Increase of 30% expected in 2003• Real Estate

– In 2002, almost 50% of home buyers Internet-influenced

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B2B eBusiness Growth

SOURCE: PWC

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Changing E-Business

Goal: attract VC moneyFocus: Speed, IPOMetric: Revenue growth,

not profit

Goal: Integrate EB within existing business.

Focus: Efficiency, optimization

Metric: Economic value

Static Brochure(1994-1996)

• Product information• Financial statements• Contact information

Transactions(1996-1999)

• Product catalog• Online ordering• Online payments• Order tracking• Build-to-order

Automated Business Processes (1999-)

• Personalized content• Interactivity• Real-time integrated data (warehouses)• Business intelligence (OLAP)

SOURCE: A. BHATTACHERJEE

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Native Language of Internet Users 03/03

SOURCE: GLREACH.COM

• ENGLISH WAS 49% IN 2001 40% IN 2002

• KOREAN DOWN FROM 4.4% IN 2002

• CHINESE GREW FROM 9.8% TO 11.9%, RISE OF 21% IN 1 YEAR

• ENGLISH WILL DROP TO UNDER 25%

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Language of Web Pages

English 68.4%

Japanese 5.9%

German 5.8%

Chinese 3.9%

French 3.0%

Spanish 2.4%

Russian 1.9%

Italian 1.6%

Portuguese 1.4%

Korean 1.3%

Other 4.4%

Total Web pages: 313 B

0.8% OF WORLDPOPULATION

SOURCE: VILAWEB.COM

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The MSEC Program

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Who You Are• 31 students from 6 countries:

U.S. (9), Korea (18), China (1), Taiwan (1), France (1), Thailand (1)

• 23 international students: 74%, same as last year• 5 women: 16%

• M.S. (3)• MBA (2)• M.A. (2)

• Most popular first name: Seung (4). All exceptSeung-eul unique if middle name is included.

• Most popular surnames: Lee (4), Yang (3), Cho (2)

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Who You Are

• Software/IT (10)• Recent graduates (6) • Consulting (4)• Government (2)• Management (non-IT) (2)• Engineering (1)• Insurance (1)

• Average age: 29

• Average years of work experience: 5

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Undergraduate Majors

• Computer Science (9)• Engineering & Science (7)

– Aerospace Engineering (1)– Chemical Engineering (4)– Electrical Engineering (2)– Mechanical Engineering (1)– Physics (1)

• Business/Administration/Economics (4)• Psychology/Political Science/Sociology (4)• Spanish (1)

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Undergraduate Schools

CMU 1 SUNY (Buffalo) 1

Hankuk U Foreign Studies (Seoul) 2 SungKyunKwan U (Suwon) 1

Michigan State (East Lansing, MI) 1 Tsinghua University (Beijing) 1

National Tsinghua (Hsinchu, Taiwan) 1 U of California (Berkeley, CA) 1

New York U (NY) 1 U of California (Los Angeles) 1

Pohang U (Pohang) 1 U of Pittsburgh 1

Rensselaer Polytechnic (Troy, NY) 1 U of Southern California (LA) 1

Seoul National U (Seoul) 4 Washington U (St. Louis, MO) 1

Sogang U (Seoul) 3 Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, NC) 1

Soongsil U Seoul) 1 Yonsei U (Seoul) 4

Stanford (Palo Alto, CA) 1

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Graduate Schools

Georgetown U (Washington) 1

Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) 1

National Tsinghua (Hsinchu, Taiwan) 1

Penn State (State College, PA) 1

U Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) 1

Yonsei U (Seoul) 2

Degrees: Comp. Sci./EE (4) Internet Technology (1) MBA (2)

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What is eCommerce?

• Application of electronic technology to business process re-engineering

• How does technology affect business processes and enable new business models?

• How do business considerations influence technology uptake?

• You need to know business• You need to know technology• So the program is ½ business, ½ technology

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The Technology Side• eCommerce Technology• Communications and Networking• Java for eCommerce• The Internet• Computer Security• Electronic Payment Systems• Web-based Information Architectures• Human-Computer Interaction• eCommerce Systems Design• Databases + electives• PRACTICUM

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12-Month Plan

Aug - Oct Mini 1. Rigorous preparation CONFUSION

October Recruiting/job placement begins TERROR

Oct - Dec Mini 2. Rigorous preparation MAYBE I CAN DO THIS

Jan - Mar Mini 3. Applications, electives IT ALL MAKES SENSE

Mar - May Mini 4. Applications, electives THIS IS EASY

May - Aug Minis 5 - 6. Practicum IT COMES TOGETHER

Aug. 2004 GraduationIT WAS WORTH IT

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Opportunities• Most wired (and wireless) campus in the U.S.• Largest academic computer science research establishment in the U.S. (250

professionals). Ranked #1.• Business school (#17 U.S. News, #2 in Information Systems, #2 in Quantitative

Analysis, #3 in Production/Operations)• Computer Emergency Response Team• Birthplace of numerous eCommerce technologies:

– Lycos– NetBill– Postal Information-Based Indicia

• CMU graduates have developed:– Java– SSL– AltaVista

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Student Clubs/Committees• Feedback Committee

– Organized by students– Committee of 3 meets with Directors within 2 weeks of start

of each mini– Purpose: report course problems, make suggestions

• Speakers Committee– Purpose: arrange for outside speakers

• eCommerce Club• Website Committee

– Works on eCommerce website

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eCommerce Practicum

• A real problem from a real company that pays real money for a solution. 28 Practicums from 20 sponsors:

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Automating the Rivers:

Port of Pittsburgh CommissionPracticum Project

2003

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eCommerce Technology 20-751

• Reading assignment for Monday, August 25:

Chapter 1 of Chan et al., E-commerce: Fundamentals and applications

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