Abstract
The website ceoexpress.com is a web portal designed to be a valuable tool for busy business executives. The website features numerous links that are useful to a business executive and which provide easy and quick access to business related websites. The links in the website range from daily news sites to research sites of major research and study institutions like Harvard University web publications and resources.
Evaluation of the website
As a source for of useful links to business executives, the website is efficient, effective and relevant. Business executives are involved in the making of decisions, usually strategic, in their firms and these decisions need to be based on current and relevant information. Misinformation in decision making can be disastrous to the future survival and smooth operations of any business. The website ceoexpress.com provides a quickly accessible tool for obtaining information that is business related to enable executives make optimal business decisions.
The website offers links to business related applications such as online financial calculators, salary calculators, tax calculators, local and federal tax forms, maps and other business relevant applications. These online applications are important since they provide an easy and effective way of dealing with business related matters which would otherwise consume a lot of time resources to carry out.
Ceoexpress.com further provides links to online marketing websites such as eBay and amazon.com. These are important since they facilitate easy transactions over the internet and act to save time and other costs.
The major advantage of the website is its provision of ease of access to many other relevant websites. It offers a one page stop from where one can access many other links without necessarily having to know their addresses.
The website provides useful and relevant links to business executives. It thus reduces the time and effort required to search and obtain business information. This is an advantage since information is an important resource in any business organization and its availability greatly influences the quality of decisions that are made.
Provision of online business applications is another advantage offered by ceoexpress.com. The applications provide easy access to services which would otherwise require substantial investment in time, personnel and equipment. An example of such an application is the tax calculator.
Links to the stock exchange would be very important to me since they would provide a way to monitor the performance of the firm’s stock. Links to strategic management knowledge sites would be very valuable since they would provide me with an avenue to continuously adapt my management skills to the ever changing business world.
References
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Marakas, G. M. & O’Brien, J. (2005). Management Information Systems. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
O’Brien, J. (2003). Introduction to Information Systems: Essentials for the E-business Enterprise. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
