Overview

Today’s technology is rapidly changing the environment in which projects are carried out. This course is geared to offer project professionals understanding of one of the most interesting developments that affect them: e-Commerce. It provides participants insights into the workings of e-Commerce, including an understanding of its technical underpinnings; its emerging role in driving business activity; and its strengths and weaknesses as a business model.

Free Review

You can review the first five complete modules of this course for free.

If you want take the Enrichment Package, and be eligible for 15 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits, you can enroll at any time at a cost of only $495.

The enrichment material is designed to enhance the course presentation. It includes the following:

• Five additional modules describing the technical and business aspects of e-Commerce
• Course Textbook: The Internet from A to Z, a book by John Cowpertwait and Simon Flynn
• "Think and Review" section that helps you review key points of the modules
• Answers to the "Think and Review" section
• A final exam which contains multiple choice and true/false questions
• Certificate of Completion, which makes students eligible for 15 PDU credits (given upon exam completion).

By completing the full course, with the additional enrichment material, you will have covered the same content contained in our two-day e-Commerce and Projects course when it is offered live in a classroom environment.

Objectives

To provide participants with insights into recent developments in e-Commerce and to show how e-Commerce is revolutionizing how business is carried out in general, and how it affects project work in particular.

PMBOK Knowledge Areas

• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Integration Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Procurement Management

What You Will Learn

• What e-Commerce is, and how it is central to effective business activity today
• Knowledge about how the different components of e-Commerce work, from back-office processes to front-end interfaces with customers
• The central roles of business process reengineering (BPR), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and supply chain management (SCM) in integrating business efforts in e-Enterprises
• How e-Marketing works, e.g., the role of web pages, the employment of partnering arrangements, the use of banners
• How to deal with data security and payment security issues
• The impact of e-Commerce on project management

Topics Covered

• e-Commerce as a core business model
• B-to-B, B-to-C, and C-to-C business models
• e-Commerce components: portals, web browsers, plug-ins, HTML, Javascript, XML, search engines
• Back-office and front-office processes.
• Key processes: business process reengineering (BPR), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), sales chain management
• Security issues: payments security and data security
• e-Commerce and projects

Enter Free Course

In order to enter the free course, please fill out the form below. This will allow you to take the course as a "Guest." There are instructions on the course site about how to sign up for the Enrichment Package.

If you have any questions, please send an email to training@umtweb.edu or call us at (703) 516-0035.

Take a Course

This course costs $495. You can begin the course today, with no application necessary. There are four easy ways to sign up:

• Secure Online Payment (VISA, Master & American Express)
• Registration Form [Word]. Mail the form with your check to: UMT, 1901 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22209-1609.
• Fax the form to us at (703) 516-0985.
• Register by phone at (703) 516-0035.

Once the payment has cleared, you will be issued an ID name and a Password that will allow you to access the full course.

To access the course, log into the UMT online coursesite with your USER ID and PASSWORD at: coursesite.umtweb.edu.