Download or read book Making a Difference Digitally written by Ernst Felix Deubert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "According to the 'South African B2C E-Commerce Report 2012', South Africa was alreadyin 2011 the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of the number of Internet users. Today in 2014, there are approximately 12,5 million South African Internet users, Since several years, the E-Commerce sector is facing a boom in South Africa. However, not everybody seems to profit from or participate in this boom. Economically and socially, South Africa is still deeply divided."--Back cover
Download or read book Making a Difference Digitally E Commerce in South Africa written by Felix Deubert and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University Witten/Herdecke, language: English, abstract: According to the "South African B2C E-Commerce Report 2012," South Africa was already in 2011 the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of the number of Internet users. Today in 2014, there are approximately 12,5 million South African Internet users . Since several years, the E-Commerce sector is facing a boom in South Africa. However, not everybody seems to profit from or participate in this boom. Economically and socially, South Africa is still deeply divided. The inequality within the population, the distance between rich and poor is extreme: The richest 20 percent of the population account for almost 70 percent of total income, the share of the poorest 20 percent is just under three percent. Almost a third (31.9%) of the population lives on the equivalent of less than 2 Dollars a day . Around seven million people are considered long-term unemployed with no job prospects, especially those living in informal settlements, the so-called townships." The social and economic inequality is a big problem for the country of South Africa. E-Commerce has the potential to resolve this problem, as it is booming and companies plan to extend their businesses as well as their employee numbers. The idea is to train people from the townships in order to get them to work in the E-Commerce business. Interesting for this thesis are those E-Commerce companies with big storage halls, as they are the ones who might be in need of untrained employees of the townships. Jobs could be needed in basic positions such as picking and packing, quality control and customer services in big warehouses. Supposed it would be actually possible to use training initiatives and programs in the form of cooperations of E-Commerce companies and township NGOs, resulting in dimishing unemployment and leading to permitting more people participate in
Download or read book Digital Business in Africa written by Ogechi Adeola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume seeks to examine how enterprises in Africa can utilize digital technologies and innovations in creating value for their customers and clients in order to increase effectiveness and efficiency. Through social media, businesses are increasingly reaching and engaging their customers in several ways and so enterprises in Africa must harness the opportunities in the digital space if they want to remain competitive, earn profit, and meet their customers’ needs. Accordingly, this book looks at how digital technologies are helping shape the financial, educational, and advertising sectors in Africa. As digital technologies raise challenges, the chapters that follow will discuss ethical and social practical frameworks to effective digital business in Africa. This volume promises to fore both theoretical underpinnings, and practical implementations of digital technologies in the African business context.
Download or read book Doing Business Digitally written by Godfrey Parkin and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet is rapidly transforming the South African business landscape. For the first time the consumer has a voice; small businesses can run rings around large corporations; local consumers are buying internationally; and local businesses are selling globally. This creates massive opportunities - and an urgent need to change. Doing Business Digitally: • demonstrates the increasing power of the internet as a driver of business strategy; • demystifies the essential elements of internet marketing; • provides examples of how web 2.0, buzz marketing and social media can be used to rapidly grow brand awareness, lead generation and sales; • gives practical guidelines for doing ebusiness professionally, drawing on examples from South Africa and abroad; • explains step by step how to develop a website that will work as a business tool; • shows how search engine marketing can generate traffic to a web page; • provides rules to maximise the effectiveness of email marketing and online advertising; and • presents a simple eight-step approach to developing a strategy that minimises risk and provides a clear path to success. Complete with a step-by-step strategy guide and comprehensive glossary, Doing Business Digitally shows the way in which companies need to evolve if they are to stay relevant and exploit new opportunities.
Download or read book Digital and Social Media Marketing written by Nripendra P. Rana and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.
Download or read book Prospects for the Digital Economy in South Africa written by Derrick L. Cogburn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computing in Research and Development in Africa written by Abdoulaye Gamatié and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the trends, challenges and solutions in computing use for scientific research and development within different domains in Africa, such as health, agriculture, environment, economy, energy, education and engineering. The benefits expected are discussed by a number of recognized, domain-specific experts, with a common theme being computing as solution enabler. This book is the first document providing such a representative up-to-date view on this topic at the continent level.
Download or read book Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa written by Nicolas Friederici and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.
Download or read book Consumers Behaviour in Using E commerce written by Sepiso Dolly Nyirenda and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the internet and the increasing use of Information Technologies (IT) have caused major revolutions in the way organizations conduct their business. The globalization trends and the augur to achieve competitive advantage and differentiation are compelling organizations to leverage on IT. This has in turn increased organizations' desire to have a big world market share, hence making Electronic commerce (E-commerce) vital to many organizations to increase efficiency and customer care, expand the channels of communication within the reach of their limited budgets in order to be competitive. E-commerce benefits are well documented, but there are still many factors that impede its successful usage. This study sought to investigate the factors influencing the use of E-commerce in South Africa by taking a case study of South African E-commerce users in the Gauteng Province. The motivation for this investigation was to bring to light the factors that influence consumers' behavior to use E-commerce in South Africa amidst the many online challenges.
Download or read book Digital Innovations Business and Society in Africa written by Richard Boateng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future. This book presents this shared strategic vision to guide future coordinated actions of African enterprises, entrepreneurs, consumers/citizens and governments in using new and emerging digital technologies. It showcases how consumers/citizens, entrepreneurs, organisations, institutions and governments are leveraging new and emerging digital innovations to disrupt and transform value creation and service delivery in Africa.
Download or read book E commerce for Exporting Garments from South Africa written by Sagren Moodley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Start an Online Business in South Africa written by Gertzen, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since February 2020, the Covid pandemic has had an enormous impact on business worldwide. In South Africa alone it has been one of the biggest reasons for loss of income. Traditional businesses are battling to stay afloat and in many instances are either forced to reduce staff or to shut their doors completely. There are many South Africans who went from having a steady income before Covid19, to not having any income at all. The rules of traditional commerce seem to have changed overnight and people are forced to look at new ways of doing business.In the past few months, I have had many friends and acquaintances mentioning an interest in starting an online business themselves, or friends who would like to start a business. The most frequently asked question I find myself answering is, "Where should I begin?" or "Do you have any pointers on where I should start?"I gave this substantial thought and decided to write down the nuts and bolts which I have found useful in creating and running an online store in South Africa. I spent months researching these building blocks for my own business and find them to be the cornerstone of such a new venture. It is a competitive new world out there, and therefore, in order to professionally exchange goods for money in the world of e-commerce, it is critical to put everything in place to make the transaction as efficient, smooth and successful as possible.
Download or read book E Commerce in South Africa written by A. Budree and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fresh Perspectives Marketing written by and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tea Reader written by Katrina Avila Munichiello and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tea Reader contains a selection of stories that cover the spectrum of life. This anthology shares the ways that tea has changed lives through personal, intimate stories. Read of deep family moments, conquered heartbreak, and peace found in the face of loss. A Tea Reader includes stories from all types of tea people: people brought up in the tea tradition, those newly discovering it, classic writings from long-ago tea lovers and those making tea a career. Together these tales create a new image of a tea drinker. They show that tea is not simply something you drink, but it also provides quiet moments for making important decisions, a catalyst for conversation, and the energy we sometimes need to operate in our lives. The stories found in A Tea Reader cover the spectrum of life, such as the development of new friendships, beginning new careers, taking dream journeys, and essentially sharing the deep moments of life with friends and families. Whether you are a tea lover or not, here you will discover stories that speak to you and inspire you. Sit down, grab a cup, and read on.
Download or read book E commerce written by Kerry Chipp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory and practice of e-commerce from a developing-world perspective. Covers business models, case studies and practical issues such as the digital divide and the law governing e-commerce transactions. Aimed at students and practitioners.
Download or read book Digital Entrepreneurship written by Mariusz Soltanifar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the business world and change the way we communicate with each other. These companies use digitalization and artificial intelligence to enhance the quality of decisions and augment their business and customer operations. This book demonstrates how cloud services are continuing to evolve; how cryptocurrencies are traded in the banking industry; how platforms are created to commercialize business, and how, taken together, these developments provide new opportunities in the digitalized era. Further, it discusses a wide range of digital factors changing the way businesses operate, including artificial intelligence, chatbots, voice search, augmented and virtual reality, as well as cyber threats and data privacy management. “Digitalization mirrors the Industrial Revolution’s impact. This book provides a complement of perspectives on the opportunities emanating from such a deep seated change in our economy. It is a comprehensive collection of thought leadership mapped into a very useful framework. Scholars, digital entrepreneurs and practitioners will benefit from this timely work.” Gina O’Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, USA “This book defines and delineates the requirements for companies to enable their businesses to succeed in a post-COVID19 world. This book deftly examines how to accomplish and achieve digital entrepreneurship by leveraging cloud computing, AI, IoT and other critical technologies. This is truly a unique “must-read” book because it goes beyond theory and provides practical examples.” Charlie Isaacs, CTO of Customer Connection at Salesforce.com, USA "This book provides digital entrepreneurs useful guidance identifying, validating and building their venture. The international authors developed new perspectives on digital entrepreneurship that can support to create impact ventures.” Felix Staeritz, CEO FoundersLane, Member of the World Economic Forum Digital Leaders Board and bestselling author of FightBack, Germany
