Electronic Business Development Strategies in the Context of Facilitating and Improving Business Environment

E-business as one of the enablers of the economy and a subset of information technology has grown substantially in the past decade. Today’s global markets is changing and transforming from industrial market to a science and technology one. In other words, today's business environment has reshaped from physical to electronic and has transformed traditional and offline markets. Successful investors have accepted transformation of traditional business to e-business so that policies of commercial enterprises in adoption and deployment of e-business are effective and efficient in order to enter international markets and attract new customers. The importance of e-business environment and high degree of its acceptance by people and businesses, have led to feel the importance of planning and development of e-business strategies and frameworks. This study, presents the results of a project administered by Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran, named “Electronic business development strategies in the context of facilitating and improving the business environment “.The purpose of this project is to extract and codify the business development strategies in the field of communications and technology, which has been designed and implemented in four phases.The fourth and final phase of this project, presents a new model based on e-readiness frameworks and was confirmed by using Smart PLS software. Finally, the e-business development strategies have extracted and classified based on confirmed model and SWOT analysis.
JEL classification: O16, O17, O21, O33, O53.