Market Overview

Understand the importance of creating a truly successful online presence.

The information economy is global in scope and quick by nature. In the current online marketplace, productivity and competitiveness of firms depend mainly on their capability to generate, process, and apply efficiently knowledge‐based information to their clients and consumers. Today, the global economy has the capacity to work as a unit in real time on a planetary scale though strategic online developmental systems.[1] Companies who fail to successfully adapt to current market and technological standards within the present online developmental culture will fail to achieve full market potential and thus cause constraints and inefficiencies in business operations and marketability.

The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has transformed how people respond to information. The internet and the ICT revolution has created “sovereign individuals” who now feel more empowered in making decisions based on value‐added information over the internet. Moving away from traditional out‐bound marketing techniques, the knowledge‐based worker has taken heed to In‐bound marketing practices where decisions are made based on fast, reliable and simple information presented over the World Wide Web.

Websites have always been an ideal organizing tool due to their inherent flexibility and adaptability as their evolutionary nature is asserted.[2] A successful online presence allows for growth in effective marketability and sustainability in strategic business‐to‐business (B2B) and business‐to‐government (B2G) e‐commerce sales. More precisely, an online presence allows for businesses to create, transform and redefine the business relationship into a rewarding experience of professionalism and personality.

Business is no longer strictly business. People are now concerned with the social and personal nuisances involved within the strategic business unit and the holistic web site experience. As internet users are increasingly impatient and intolerable, new methods of web development technology must be implemented to satisfy the present needs of a specific market niche.

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[2] Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1‐2.