- What is single most important goal that company is planning to reach thanks to this solution? - What critical problems solution is meant to solve? - Are time and money spent justifies its implementation? - What are implementation milestones? - How you will know that you have reached those milestones? - Once you got all relevant people of company involved in process, choose an implementation taskforce of experts from all required sections. This team should be responsible for developing implementation plan. According to this plan assign resources and deadlines. Upon completion of each stage of implementation get senior management involved in order to review progress.

Education and Training

Education should cover “why” side of solution and training “how” side.

- Identify people that required getting trained and educated. - Define objectives - Define training and education criteria and select syllabus - Set evaluation method - Conduct actual learning process - Assess their progress

Implementation

Implementation of solution should take place according to strict predefined stages.

Upon completion of each stage of implementation get senior management involved in reviewing progress. Conduct reality check!

- How does solution meet your expectations so far? - Is it doing what it’s supposed to do? - Do you need to revise any of your priorities?

Once implementation is over, set up a thorough post implementation meeting with taskforce and relevant end-users. The important thing here is to identify if everybody involved with project is satisfied with result or not.

In order to successfully implement e-business solutions, it is very important that you fully understand technologies behind it. If require hire a consultant and work closely with her. In long run, this might save you substantial time and money.

Here are other things to remember:

1. E-business solutions are mere tools. Don’t expect them to radically change everything that you learnt about business processes.

2. E-business solution implementations like any other project require strict step by step project management.

3. Before considering an e-business solution, make sure that there is a sound business need to get it. E-marketplace, Private exchange, Business portal are few of e-business solutions that help you attracting new customers and markets. These solutions also allow streamlining many of vital business processes. In your e-business strategy these solutions should be at top of list.

4. Keep track of new technologies and keep an eye to your competitors’ e-business strategies. E-business is an extremely fast moving segment; you should be ready for changes and embrace them whenever it’s necessary.

After looking around several other web sites marketing products and services, it's likely that they could benefit from same easy-to-implement strategy.

Here is what I used to have in place.

On my web site, I include an email address where prospects and customers can reach me. It's a clickable email address, i.e. when email address link is clicked, it opens an empty email ready to send to me - to achieve this, anchor tag previously contained following HTML:

href="mailto:support@popupmaster.com" rel="nofollow"

The only problem was that prospects, and perhaps customers, would click this link, enter their message, and send email without ever filling in subject line.

I have since implemented a very simple change, that makes it a lot easier for them, and helps to ensure that I respond to their message when it arrives in my inbox. All I did was adjust HTML code for email link so that an specific subject line is automatically inserted into email. I can now easily recognize email when it arrives, and ensure it is filtered correctly.

Here is an example of replacement code that I now use in my email anchor tags:

href="mailto:support@popupmaster.com?subject=PopUpMaster_question" rel="nofollow"

This simple adjustment prefills subject line and ensures there will be little chance I will miss their email when it arrives. Consequently my prospects and customers are happier, and my business gains in strength.

By including a suitable subject in mailto: links on your web site, you can achieve same positive effect for your own business.