ABSTRACT

This doesn’t mean, of course, that all organizations have thrown off the shackles of Industrial Age business models and ways of working. In many factories and offices life goes on, seemingly unchanged. But peer beneath the surface and a lot has happened. Purchasing clerks may still spend their days staring into a computer screen, but nowadays that computer is as much a communication tool as a wordprocessing or computational device. While paper may still exist, more and more

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After completing this chapter you will have an understanding of:

The meanings of e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government

The reasons why e-Business demands new skills and thinking

The structure of the book and the role of each chapter

e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government

Structure of the book

through the whole procurement cycle.