How might the use of technologies and the network of interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT) help to overcome supply chain issues and enable the effective exchange and sharing of information?

How might the use of technologies and the network of interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT) help to overcome supply chain issues and enable the effective exchange and sharing of information?

Coursework Assessment Task 2 (Report): weighting 50% of the module final mark (word limit: 2,000 words +/- 10%)

"Using digital communications to improve supply chain efficiency is dependent on effective exchange and sharing of information". (Chaffey, 2015, p.275).

Please note:
•​You should give examples of appropriate companies to evidence and support your answer where appropriate.
•​References that evidence understanding and application of the content of relevant academic articles and publications will also be given credit.

Your answer should be in report format

Reading List
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Essential Core Text:
• Chaffey, D. (2015) Digital Business and E-Commerce Management, Prentice Hall


Recommended:
• Laudon, K. C.&Traver, C.G., E-Commerce (Fourteenth Edition) Business. Technology. Society. 2018, Pearson (any earlier edition is useful).

• Jelassi, T. & Enders, A. & Martinez-Lopez, F. J. (2014) Strategies for e-Business Creating Value through Electronic and Mobile Commerce Concepts and Cases.

• Laudon, K. C. and Laudon, J. P. (2017) Management Information Systems Managing the Digital Firm, Fifteenth Edition, Pearson

• Turban et al,(2012) Electronic Commerce 2012 A Managerial and Social Networks Perspective , Prentice Hall

Also useful:
• Chaffey, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F. (2016) Digital Marketing Strategy, Implementation and Practice 5th edn. Pearson Education Limited, Harlow.

• Dumas, M. Barry. (2013) Diving into the bitstream: information technology meets society in a digital world, Routledge,Oxon., Taylor & Francis group.

• Gansky, L. (2010) The Mesh: why the future of business is sharing Portfolio/Penguin group

• Jarvis, J. (2011) What would Google do?: reverse-engineering the fastest- growing company in the history of the world J Collins Business

• Kirkpatrick, D. (2010) The Facebook Effect Virgin books

• Levy, S. (2011) In the plex: how Google thinks, works and shapes our lives Simon & Schuster

• McKay, J. and Marshall, P. (2004) Strategic Management of e-Business

• Tapscott, D. and Williams A.D. (2007)Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Atlantic Books.

• Tapscott, D. and Williams A.D. (2010) Macrowikinomics Rebooting Business & the World, Atlantic Books.

• Turban, E. and Volonino, L. McLean, E. and Wetherbe, J. (2009), Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy, John Wiley and Sons