Ebusiness Service offering

3) Provide 3 alternatives with their analysis and comparison

• Concentrate solely on ebusiness service offering

This alternative would allow to this company to achieve their goals by aggressively increasing ebusiness services offering, including business consulting, ebusiness integration services and ebusiness outsourcing service, while maintaining traditional services.

PROS CONS

• Be more competitive

• Maintain its leadership position

• IGS could bring solutions to market more rapidly. • Loss potential future revenues(from traditional professional computer services)

• High cost.

• Expand the service offering to provide a full range of professional services.

IGS would offer consulting system integration and outsourcing to accommodate to clients need and once again abandon a significant focus on custom application development.

PROS CONS

• Use their brand recognition in this area

• Provide a full range of services

• Attract more clients with a broad range of requirements

• Increase revenues

• Maintain its leadership position. • Overextension of this company

• Costly to build and maintain the required skill

• Expand overseas by making strategic acquisitions or alliances.

This alternative will help IBM, to be stronger that their competitors and diversify its products and services.

PROS CONS

• Increase revenues

• Maintain its financial position and profitability

• Diversification

• Increase market share. • High Risk

• Cultural clashes

3) Make a recommendation

• I considered that the best alternative to IBM is the second one; expand the service offering to provide a full range of professional services, because this company would take advantage of its existing reputation as a worlds leader professional computer services and also IGS is better than competitors in several areas, buy specially in the ability to provide a continuous flow of new products and services through their intensive investment in research and development as compare to the R&D of their competitors.

3) Provide 3 alternatives with their analysis and comparison

• Concentrate solely on ebusiness service offering

This alternative would allow to this company to achieve their goals by aggressively increasing ebusiness services offering, including business consulting, ebusiness integration services and ebusiness outsourcing service, while maintaining traditional services.

PROS CONS

• Be more competitive

• Maintain