Your Network's Not Ready for E-Commerce

A first-time e-commerce project manager informs management that after due diligence, package selection and integration, enabling the company’s Web site for e-commerce will take six months and cost approximately $400,000. He then notes that the only thing left to do is to inform the network group. But what can the network group really add to the project, he wonders? Maybe a new T1 line? Well, he has already budgeted for that, to the tune of$1,000 per month and 30-days’ notice to install. All in all, he anticipates no problems.

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