Title :
Diagnosing key needs for emergent B2B in SMBs
Author :
Espinosa, Enrique David ; Junco, Angeles ; Ramirez, Jorge ; Ramos, Fernando ; Rubio, Erendida ; Vazquez, Miriam ; Cárdenas, Raúl
Author_Institution :
Consorcio Inter-Rectorias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Abstract :
Small and medium sized businesses (SMB´s) in Mexico, and worldwide, constitute a huge growth opportunity for high tech companies. However, the technological resources that they employ are - in general - in the early stages, and many of them are underfinanced. In order to improve the search for technological and business plans that support the increase of revenue, market expansion and/or cost reduction within the SMB, we present innovations to traditional surveying techniques, such as inspectional and case-based diagnosing tools based on multimedia and scalable vector graphics (SVG). We propose that this render a higher level of veracity in the diagnosis process. As a result, we propose a model and software that help survey SMB executives in an inspectionable fashion and, after an analysis of the answers; provide them with the key elements of a business plan (i.e. suggested business actions, and data) to favor the introduction of B2B in the SMB.
Keywords :
business process re-engineering; cost reduction; multimedia systems; program diagnostics; small-to-medium enterprises; strategic planning; technology management; B2B; business plans; case-based diagnosing tools; cost reduction; growth opportunity; high tech companies; inspectional diagnosing tools; market expansion; medium sized businesses; multimedia; revenue increase; small sized business; suggested business actions; surveying techniques; technological plans; technological resources; Companies; Costs; Graphics; Rendering (computer graphics); Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
e-Commerce Technology, 2004. CEC 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2098-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICECT.2004.1319749