TAILIEUCHUNG - A Primer on Developing An E-Business Strategy - Submitted to: First Stop Business Information Center

The term E-business was initially crafted in a thematic campaign by IBM in 1997 and subsequently defined as “a secure, flexible, and integrated approach to delivering differentiated business value by combining the systems and processes that run core business operations with the simplicity and reach made possible by Internet technology” (). Prior to the offering of this definition, the term E-business and E- commerce were often referred to interchangeably. The offering of this formal definition marked the coming of age of the adoption of the Internet and its technology to go beyond the function of E-commerce and encompass other. | ECONOMIC AND BUDGET ANALYSES 7 2. ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS This chapter presents the economic forecast on which the 2013 Budget projections are When the President took office in January 2009 the economy was in the midst of an historic economic crisis. The first order of business for the new Administration was to arrest the rapid decline in economic activity that threatened to plunge the country into a second Great Depression. The President and Congress took unprecedented actions to restore demand stabilize financial markets and put people back to work. These steps included passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA signed by the President just 28 days after taking office. They also included the Financial Stability Plan announced in February 2009 which encompassed wide-ranging measures to strengthen the banking system increase consumer and business lending and stem foreclosures and support the housing market. These and a host of other actions walked the economy back from the brink. Production bottomed out during the spring and the recession officially ended in June This marked the end of the decline in production but businesses were still shedding jobs. The unemployment rate reached a peak of percent in October 2009 and payroll employment continued to fall until February 2010. The two years that followed have seen the economy gradually begin to recover. Over the past 10 quarters through the fourth quarter of 2011 real Gross Domestic Product GDP has grown at an average rate of percent and since February 2010 million jobs have been added in the private sector. Meanwhile the unemployment rate has fallen from its October 2009 peak of percent to percent as of December 2011 . The recovery is projected to gain momentum in 20122013 and to strengthen further in 2014. Unfortunately even with healthy economic growth unemployment is expected to be higher than normal for several more years. The Administration is projecting a full

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