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What can existing businesses learn from the business approaches of the  dot‑  com 

organisations?

  6 

What are the similarities and differences between the concepts of business pro‑

cess re‑engineering (BPR) and digital business? Will the digital business concept 

face the same fate as BPR?

  7 

Discuss this statement by David Weymouth, Barclays Bank chief information officer 

(Simons, 2000b):

There is no merit in becoming a  dot-  com business. Within five years successful 

businesses will have embraced and deployed at  real-  scale across the whole enter-

prise, the processes and technologies that we now know as  dot-  com.

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Compare and contrast different approaches to developing digital business 

strategy.