Just want to add a few cents. I know several 'big' firms who provide their clients professional advisory on IT, like what kind of tech architecture you need, why you have to setup a web site to embrace eC. but i have to say few of those professional have first-hand experience, they just quote something from vendor's bullitin and benchmark data.
The real problem here is that since the area is so complicated that few people can get an insight into it, how to solve a complicated problem in limited time and with limited resource.
computer/internet really costs us more briliant mind than other fields.
It is a matter of market behavior. If a field need brilliant mind to cover its opportunity, they will pay your anything they could afford.
it used to be auto, airplane, war, now it is internet. and there will be other.
but the top-tier of every field are more likely to be the same. A top stateman will be somewhat as good as a top programmer or businessman/woman.
What's more, the gap of top-tiers are far smaller than that of base. If you are a top businessman, it is so hard to become a top statesman. but I don't if a good hacker can be a good quarter-back. kidding...
A few cents from marketing textbook: At the first stage of product life cycle, it is mainly a matter of technology. Those with strong R&D could win out, and charge a high premium with a monopoly position. Then some followers come up with competition, price will drop. At that stage, there will be a lot of brands and products. It will be a tough and free market. Along the maturing of the market, the product will be standardized in most functions, and only a few brand can survive to this stage. The primary factor of success now is scale. At last, the product become obsolete and some new tech show up. Sometime the production site will shift from developed to developing. I believe, the internet is in the process of stabalization, you may see a lot of bigger and bigger package solutions come up, and very few brand survive in spite of some many start-ups. the history will be some what like business software with a little variation.
As to B2C pattern, there are actually several standard modules: 1. Online Category, which can learn a lot from the portals. Also a well designed site should have very strong personalization feature and fully-DB-based. 2. Payment. Maybe more mature solution is needed. I have little idea about it, so just stop here. 3. User-tracking. This seems to be a promising fields. To have some software to data-mining from mysterious log file, or even DB marketing. There are still some other important components, like load-balance, hot-back-up. All these fields are very specific and easy-to-isolated. Two or three major solutions are possible, or have a de-facto standard. All solution are based on a given standard as the presumption of design. But in a field where so many kind of architeture competing, nobody could win out as solution. There must be a battle of standard before a battle of solution. As to B2B, anyone could tell me a good site or just a experimental B2B? thx.
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Just want to add a few cents.
I know several 'big' firms who provide their clients professional advisory on IT, like what kind of tech architecture you need, why you have to setup a web site to embrace eC.
but i have to say few of those professional have first-hand experience, they just quote something from vendor's bullitin and benchmark data.
The real problem here is that since the area is so complicated that few people can get an insight into it, how to solve a complicated problem in limited time and with limited resource.
computer/internet really costs us more briliant mind than other fields.
It is a matter of market behavior. If a field need brilliant mind to cover its opportunity, they will pay your anything they could afford.
it used to be auto, airplane, war, now it is internet. and there will be other.
but the top-tier of every field are more likely to be the same. A top stateman will be somewhat as good as a top programmer or businessman/woman.
What's more, the gap of top-tiers are far smaller than that of base. If you are a top businessman, it is so hard to become a top statesman. but I don't if a good hacker can be a good quarter-back.
kidding...
A few cents from marketing textbook: At the first stage of product life cycle, it is mainly a matter of technology. Those with strong R&D could win out, and charge a high premium with a monopoly position. Then some followers come up with competition, price will drop. At that stage, there will be a lot of brands and products. It will be a tough and free market. Along the maturing of the market, the product will be standardized in most functions, and only a few brand can survive to this stage. The primary factor of success now is scale. At last, the product become obsolete and some new tech show up. Sometime the production site will shift from developed to developing. I believe, the internet is in the process of stabalization, you may see a lot of bigger and bigger package solutions come up, and very few brand survive in spite of some many start-ups. the history will be some what like business software with a little variation.
As to B2C pattern, there are actually several standard modules: 1. Online Category, which can learn a lot from the portals. Also a well designed site should have very strong personalization feature and fully-DB-based. 2. Payment. Maybe more mature solution is needed. I have little idea about it, so just stop here. 3. User-tracking. This seems to be a promising fields. To have some software to data-mining from mysterious log file, or even DB marketing. There are still some other important components, like load-balance, hot-back-up. All these fields are very specific and easy-to-isolated. Two or three major solutions are possible, or have a de-facto standard. All solution are based on a given standard as the presumption of design. But in a field where so many kind of architeture competing, nobody could win out as solution. There must be a battle of standard before a battle of solution. As to B2B, anyone could tell me a good site or just a experimental B2B? thx.