INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY A Veritable Tool for
Leadership Skills Acquisition Gbenga
Sesanwww.gbengasesan.com me_at_gbengasesan.com Perf
ecta Club, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
January 31 2003. NIGERIA.
and more!
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LEADERSHIP The missing piece in the Naija puzzle

• Empires, nations, organizations and people
  groups have always progressed or otherwise
  based on the quality of leadership theyre
  exposed to, e.g. Rome, US, Enron, Igbo
• Leadership is not achieved by birth or location!
  Nigerias second generation leadership slots are
  empty!
• Nigeria needs a new generation a new breed
  without greed, and strongly opposed to the status
  quo ante
• Leadership can be cultivated An object will
  always continue in its state of rest unless acted
  upon by a force. A mans life will always
  gravitate in the direction of his most dominant
  thought
• Identify tools that can aid your interaction
  with leadership STUDY, MENTOR-PROTEGEE,
  SELF-PRACTICE platforms

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY A Veritable Tool

• Each age has its own tool. The New Economys
  central tool is Information Technology just as
  automation was the central tool for the
  Industrial Revolution
• The need to master the use of Information
  Technology in the broader sense of Information
  and Communication Technologies is not
  negotiable, its the worlds direction
• Information Technology is multidisciplinary and
  you need to identify the portion you wish to
  swim in
• Information Sciences, Telecommunications,
  Networks, Computing and Emerging Technologies
  have converged to provide this generation with a
  tool with which we can acquire appropriate
  skills, e.g leadership

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Deploying the TOOL

• The Internet remains the worlds largest
  library, encyclopedia and resource centre rolled
  into one. Explore it, study the content, meet
  with the living and the dead who lived your
  dream, and shorten the distance between you and
  knowledge
• Dont just get, give. Contribute your own quota
  to the worlds pool of leadership skills by
  uploading content to the web.
• I see a new Nigeria emergingone that will be
  built on the labours of our heroes past, hewn out
  of the debris of the present waste and engineered
  by the strength of the youth. These young men
  and women will adopt Information Technology for
  the purpose of personal development, nation
  building, regional cooperation and global
  participation. They exist unknown today, but in
  the secrecy of their abode, they master the tool
  that will change their lives and that of their
  nation.

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Introduction to the New Economy

• The influence of Globalization Same world, no
  excuses
• The need for Universal Access Grandpas SMS
  from the farm!
• The dissolution of boundaries A Real Virtual
  Republic
• The discovery of Synergies Convergence of
  technologies
• Emergence of a knowledge-based economy Heads
  vs. Hands
• The importance of Wired Societies The
  Information Society
• Its a NEW economy The rules are changing fast!
• The New Economy and the Internet Siamese twins?
• Meet the Future eFridge, Virtual Reality,
  Global Numeric Commons (e.g. Tade goes to buy
  pizza)

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The Internet in Representations 1
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The Internet in Representations 2
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The Internet in Representations 3
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The Internet in Representations 4
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The Internet in Representations 5
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The Internet in Representations 6
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The Internet in Representations 7
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The Internet in Representations 8
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A Brief Introduction to eCommerce
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines
commerce as follows com.merce n MF, fr. L
commercium, fr. com- merc-, merx merchandise
(1537) 1 social intercourse interchange of
ideas, opinions, or sentiments 2 the exchange or
buying and selling of commodities on a large
scale involving transportation from place to
place eCommerce is the use of internetworked
computers to create and transform business
relationships. Applications provide business
solutions that improve the quality of goods and
services, increase the speed of service delivery,
and reduce the cost of business operations.
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Introduction to eCommerce

• It is most commonly associated with buying and
  selling information, products, and services via
  the Internet, but it is also used to transfer and
  share information within organizations through
  intranets to improve decision-making and
  eliminate duplication of effort. The new paradigm
  of eCommerce is built not just on transactions
  but on building, sustaining and improving
  relationships, both existing and potential.
• Web surfing brings each eCommerce (Electronic
  Commerce) site and its product or service into
  the home, office, room or palm of the client and
  orders can be placed with the click of a mouse or
  the push of a key. Personal identification,
  customer preferences and a sophisticated database
  of customers can be monitored to provide tailored
  or customised services to clients. Electronic
  Fund Transfer (EFT) makes it possible for
  transaction to be completed with payments carried
  our real-time and online.

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A brief history of eCommerce
Source CommerceNet
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There are several trends and factors that are
instrumental in shaping the current and future of
eCommerce. They include Economy Organizations
in the past were large, slow and pyramidal. Power
was based on who controlled capital. Today we are
moving toward a knowledge economy where creation
and dissemination of knowledge is the means to
control. New organizations are flexible, dynamic
and dramatically lower in land, labor and capital
requirements. Its the quality and productivity,
rather than the volume, of workers that define
the new economy. Politics The politically
powerful controlled the means toproduction.
Democracy was mitigated by economics. Information
was top-down, tightly controlled, and slow
moving. We are moving into a new information and
knowledge is more accessible and the creation of
knowledge and constant learning is made easier,
empowerment is made more tenable (although not a
given).
Trends and Factors of New Economy
Source CommerceNet
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Culture Dual income households, increased
workloads and commute time had a detrimental
effect on culture and the quality of life. New
workplace designs and telecommuting afford more
time for leisure and family. Culture is based
less on capital attainment and more on knowledge
acquisition. Technology Early technology
implementation devalued workers as it was used to
replace people and to reduce costs. Emerging
technology characteristics include1. creation
of virtual spaces2. interactivity of work3.
disintermediation, providing direct
communication4. immediacy of information to
conduct work and make decisions5. bandwidth to
exploit the potential of multimedia for work6.
accessibility of information both just-in-time
(pull) andbroadcast (push)
Trends and Factors of New Economy
Source CommerceNet
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Key Applications of eCommerce (B2B)
The Internet can connect all businesses to each
other, regardless of their location or position
in the supply chain. This ability presents a huge
threat to traditional intermediaries like
wholesalers and brokers. Internet connections
facilitate businesses ability to bargain
directly with a range of suppliers, thereby
eliminating the need for such intermediaries. Ther
e are, however, tremendous opportunities as well
as threats for companies regardless of their
position in the supply chain. They
include Providing Information Purchasing and
Selling Moving to an Internet platform
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Key Applications of eCommerce (B2C)

• One-way marketing Corporate web sites are still
  prominent distribution mechanisms for corporate
  brochures, the push, one-way marketing strategy.
• Purchasing over the Web Availability of secure
  web transactions is enabling companies to allow
  consumers to purchase products directly over the
  web.
• Relationship Marketing The most prominent of
  these new paradigms is that of relationship
  marketing. Because consumer actions can be
  tracked on the web, companies experiment with
  this methodology as a tool for market research
  and relationship marketing Consumer survey forms
  on the web, using web tracking and other
  technology to make inferences about consumer
  buying profiles, customizing products/services,
  achieving customer satisfaction and building
  long-term relationships

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Data on eCommerce Sales
1.4 trillion by 2004 (Conservative estimate)
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY A Veritable Tool for
Leadership Skills Acquisition Gbenga
Sesanwww.gbengasesan.com me_at_gbengasesan.com Perf
ecta Club, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
January 31 2003. NIGERIA.
and more!
THANK YOU!