Creating and Managing Your E-Commerce/E-Business Initiatives by

Mitchell Levy
CEO, Entrepreneur, Public Board Member
Author, E-Volve-or-Die.com and 14 other books

Today, more than at any other time in history, we need to figure out how to effectively integrate technology into our business models and/or modify our business models as a result of what technology will allow us to do. Whether you call it e-commerce, e-business, e-services or a plethora of other names, we're talking about how to effectively deploy, manage, and utilize technology in our business. Come join this tutorial lead by E-Commerce Management (ECM) expert, pundit and author of E-Volve-or-Die.com who will guide you on how to get started, how to gain support, run, and mobilize your company with its (e-)commerce/business efforts. You will walk away with an understanding of how to make the business case, get funding for your initiatives and run them effectively.

COVERS THE FOLLOWING, PLUS MORE:

• Creating the Business Case for E-Commerce
• Creating your Short and Long-term Vision
  
• Enlisting Management Support
  
• Gaining Inertia within Your Company
  
• What Organization(s) Should Run the Initiatives
  
• Building Your Team
  
• Keeping Momentum
  
• Communicating and Measuring Results
  
• Dealing with Barriers
  
• Self-Supervised Work Groups
  
• "Effective" Company Case Study Exercise
  
• Review Results and Wrap-up
  

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Project and Program Managers
• General Management
• IT Management and Professionals
• Sales & Marketing Management
• Customer Support Management
• Operations Management
• Business Owners
• Internet and Management Consultants

FACILITATOR:

Mitchell Levy, CEO, has started and run over 13 firms and partnerships since 1997. He is a book publisher (having published 200 books), business consultant & strategist, connector, educator & prognosticator helping companies succeed by putting tools in the hands of corporations and individuals to allow them to create their own success. He has an extensive network which he taps into to drive success for those around him. Mr. Levy is a frequent media guest and a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the world. In addition to the companies/joint ventures he's started, he has helped answer over 1,000 CEO questions and provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies.

After earning his MBA from the College of William and Mary, he spent 13 years working for corporations in IT, Finance and Operations. He then spent 15 years as an entrepreneur creating 13 companies and strategic partnerships including Happy About® in 2005 and THiNKaha® in 2007. Mr. Levy is also partner of the physical networking firm CXOnetworking and sits on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR). He lives with his wife and son in Silicon Valley. 

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