Business Information Systems: Ecommerce Career and Skill Development

This essay delves into the significance of Business Information Systems (BIS) in shaping a career as an e-commerce developer. It highlights the shift from traditional paperwork to electronic systems due to advancements in technology, emphasizing the impact of e-commerce on the global economy, supported by statistics on mobile shopping usage. The author expresses a keen interest in becoming an e-commerce developer, outlining the necessary skills such as HTML, CSS, networking, internet security, and entrepreneurial skills, alongside communication and data analysis. The essay also acknowledges the importance of social and legal understanding in business and the need for continuous skill development to stay competitive. Furthermore, it provides a self-assessment of the author's strengths in communication and data analysis, with a focus on improving web design and optimization skills. The conclusion underscores the vital role of BIS in business success and the importance of continuous technological upgrades.

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Over the few decade the paper work have been dramatically been substituted the electronic files.
The invention of the computer and internet has turned the world global. As a matter of fact you
can’t discuss the matter technology and without a word or a thought on information technology.
The advancement in information technology from the ancient methods of data and information
sharing and story for the purpose of retrieval in future holds an equivalent weight with the
discovery of fire by the Homo erectus.
From political to social, cultural to economical fields none have been left untouched. The
management operation and the mode of sharing information have changed. From batter trade to
currency trade now it’s online shopping. The finding of the research that was conducted recently
by a team of android developer’s argued; Australia alone has more than two hundred millions of
phone users. Out of this population, 80% uses the mobile online shopping. Imagine the GDP per
capita generated by a hundred and sixty million users of the mobile shopping only. That is how
deep the technology in information is; on this reasons I developed an interest on taking
ecommerce developer as my career after completing my study for the bachelor degree of
business information system (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017).

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Ecommerce is an online trading platform that allows for your customers to send orders, enquiry
or complaint to the store through a dedicated webpage or a coded app. This is the knowledge of
Computer Science, a course that on my stand define as vital for my career.
At my age, am focusing more on education to build a strong pillar to support my career in future,
therefore apart from the degree in bachelor of Business Information system am also attending to
set of classes of diploma in Business Management, diploma in Computer Science and
Mathematics, degree Business Management, diploma in Music and Arts and a certificate in
Human Resource Management (Cassidy, 2016).
Apart from what am learning in APIC now, and what I expect to learn in the near future in my
course to be eligible for a degree certificate award, I will need to go a mile further and learn on
something new on a total number of five more subjects not offered by the university but are
essential in career I would wish to join.
For the development of the online stores I will need to have a good understanding of the subject
Cascading Style Sheet and Hyper Text Marker Language initialized as CSS and HTML
respectively. HTML will be of a big impact to the journey towards my career as it forms the
foundation of web pages development which is the backbone of ecommerce. CSS will pave my
way and even make it easier for me to develop more attractive and user friendly sites even faster
because it will equip me with vital knowledge of defining text styles, table’s sizes, and font sizes
of my Web site in one page that will be used all through the website. This will help me develop
sites with consistent format and appearance with ease of navigation by the users. It is evident that
appealing websites draw large traffics, consequently promoting our brand name and hence sales
of the products (Greenberg, 2017).

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In my career, I cannot under estimate the power of networking and internet knowledge. I need to
understand how computer components are connected to provide a connection for the flow of
traffic from one component to the other. With networking I will be able to understand the factors
that affect a given type of connection and identify the ideal connection type to embrace in the
organization I will be working for. This will also equip me with the knowledge of responding to
faulty network connection. The internet is like a vehicle while the network is the infrastructure in
this case. Hopefully, the study of this subject will help me gain the knowledge of internet
security and encryption to defend and protect my site from malicious attack that could collapse
my entire or part of the site developed (Wu, Straub, and Liang, 2015).
Am hoping; that one day in future I will be an employer to the future generation that will show
interest in the same career and other careers also. With this objective the need for the study of
entrepreneurial skill is inevitable. The subject will equip me with the skills on how to gather
recourses; land, capital and labor together and manage them effectively for maximized
productivity of the business.
Communication is a key factor for the survival of any business. Good communication skills
enable one to interact and work well with others. It also helps in settling of dispute that can bring
down the business. In the same note communication have been changed significantly by the
growth in technology, therefore it is necessary to get the up to date skills from expert for smooth
running. This means that I will need to go back to class and study communication skills as a
subject (Rosemann, and Brocke, 2015).
The safety to survival of any business is built in the foundation of social and legal requirements.
I need to understand and appreciate other people’s culture in my career. I also need to practice

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legal conducting of the business activities from registration to operations. It’s argued that you
cannot be able to obey rules that you do not know of their existence. Putting this into
consideration will force me back to class to acquire the knowledge of the social and political
ethics on matter business to create an enabling operation culture.
For one to be competitive in the field of ecommerce development, you must be in possession of
critical several critical skills to maintain you at the top of the pyramid. First your communication
skills should be undisputable. Here communication includes the video, audio record and blogs
writing. If you don’t posses competitive communication skills it might turn out to greatest
embarrassment rather than an advertisement. For example if you have this phrase in your blog as
an advertisement you are very likely to fetch a number of potential customers interest, ‘this is the
greatest offer you have waiting for all year round, 10% off the price, you don’t have an excuse
on why you don’t have a house now, hurry up only few houses remaining, don’t wait until it’s
too late ’. If you opt for the video or audio way you must be in possession of this skill too. You
must be audible, have proper pronunciation and prove fluency in your language (Dwivedi,
Wastell, Laumer, Henriksen, Myers, Bunker, Elbanna, Ravishankar,. and Srivastava, 2015)
It’s good to acknowledge the fact that most decisions for the future are done based on the
experiences of the fast and the trend in the field of concern. As good marketer I therefore need to
possess a commendable level of skills on analysis of data recorded from the past experiences on
making decision that on implementation will reverse the whole story to the better.
The fact that the advertising is done online implies that I must be in possession of good web
pages design and the interface of my website is attractive and easy to navigate such that it will
create the desire to view the page again after the first view or even subscribe to the channel to get

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the updates. This will enable me to reach a big number of potential customers at a go on the next
content (Laudon, and Laudon, 2015).
It goes without saying that you cannot be a sailor without going to the sea; an ecommerce
developer has no other alternative on acquiring technical skills doing the coding from scratch. I
must therefore gather these skills of coding by all means and this remain being the reason I am
challenged to seek for the CSS and HTML knowledge out of the college.
No man is perfect is an ancient saying that applies in almost all fields of the world. However
there never miss to be a particular aspect of that given area that you can do better than the other.
Ecommerce development is a technical activity. What matter most is the level of skill you
posses. If you don’t have the skills it will turn out to be very embarrassing to handle it. In the
same note, it’s rare to find a person possessing all this skills. This being the reason such jobs a
better done by a group of experts (Pearlson, Saunders, and Galletta, 2016).
Myself, when it comes to communication, I categorize myself efficient. I am good in creative
writing articles that can create traffic to the website following their standard and quality in terms
of the use of language, humor and more importantly the message is well communicated. On
audio message convey of messages, I have high level of fluency and I can communicate in one
language for a couple of minutes without hesitations. The article writing and the audio messages
are at time not that much effective and the need for video support, however my biggest draw
back on communication is on personal presentation in the videos and the entire process of videos
making and editing (Alles, Brennan, Kogan and Vasarhelyi, 2018).
If there is something am confident with is my ability to analyze data collected in the past,
compare them and come up with a conclusion that can be used to make decision to be

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implemented for the better part of the organization. I have high level skills of data analysis based
on my study on mathematics and statistics. I have done several analyses of data in the past and
am working on one for the Bonk Wear store, a dress making company intending to go the online
way in the near future.
I also have some basic skills of web designing; I acquired these skills from my previous level of
learning. I developed the interest of learning web page design after being involved on a long
decision with my classmate on where the content embedded in the internet originate. The first
thing on mind was that the content must have been prepared by a group or an individual seated
somewhere. The challenge I took on; why is that person not me? After learning for a couple of
days, at least now I can make a simple web page with several blogs on advertisement of a
product in the deal. However; there is a big gap in my skills on how to monetize and optimize the
website for the search engines. The impli9cation of this is that my site does not attract large
number of traffic (Xu, Xu, Cai, Xie, Hu, and Bu, 2014).
In my conclusion on this report the study of business information system is vital for the success
of any business today. Technology is advancing every hour, if your business doesn’t upgrade its
system information over a long period of time, then that’s a time bomb, the business is waiting
on the queue to fail.

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