AN INDICATOR SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING ENTERPRISESE-READINESS AND ITS APPLICATION INCHINESE RETAILING

摘要

Although e-business becomes increasingly important to business world, an inappropriate implementation ofe-business has resulted in enterprise’s tremendous resources being down the drain. To minimize the cost ofinappropriate e-business implementation in the future, an enterprise should make a self-assessment to makesure whether it is e-ready for e-business. Th paper, drawn upon several existing e-readiness assessment models,proposes a new e-readiness indicator system. The proposed indicator system has 5 hierarchical levels with67 items as the indicators. Using this indicator system, an enterprise can have a whole picture of theenterprise’s e-readiness and help the enterprise’s executives make decision on e-business implementation. Thee-readiness indicator system was used to assess the e-readiness of retailing enterprises in China. Researchfindings were presented and discussed finally.