After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Identify several ways that information technologies have affected the job of managers in E-business companies.
2. Explain how problems of information system performance can be reduced by the involvement of business managers in IS planning and management.
3. Identify the seven major dimensions of the E-business organization and explain how they affect the success of E-business companies.
4. Identify each of the three components of E-business technology management and use examples to illustrate how they might be implemented in an E-business enterprise.
5. Identify several cultural, political, and geoeconomic challenges that confront managers in the management of global E-business technologies.
6. Explain the effect on global E-business strategy of the trend toward a transnational business strategy by international business organizations.
7. Identify several considerations that affect the choice of IT applications, IT platforms, data access policies, and systems development methods by a global E-business enterprise.