Many initiatives that create additional value in real estate transactions, derive from effective web presence and virtual searching facilities. Recent research takes a strategic view, and utilises a structured approach of translating the impact of the internet as an enabling technology on...

A pilot hybrid vertical/horizontal-portal for regionally-based real estate agents (RREAs) in Australia, denoted as ProjectLink (PL) is designed and developed. Duplication across multiple regions of Australia as a 'low-cost' , value-added solution is proposed. Furthermore an e-business medium is...

The Singaporean economy was affected by the Asian Financial Crisis, but its effects were masked by Singapore's approaches, and strategies, towards FDI and government investment, and to the external recognition of its robust, transparent financial system. the Asian Financial Crisis and increased...

A service value networks approach may be used to build a business on-line pathway solution-set capable of delivering near-real-time customer targeting. This approach engages the front-end aspects of the business. It moves the on-line business beyond Porter's competitiveness views of niche or...

Smart business networks are built on Service Value Networks (SVNs) across the business's interaction environment. SVNs are constructed via interconnecting and networked value chains linking suppliers, peripheral partners and external support or legislated external sources into the networked...

Businesses seeking to improve their product or service positioning with their customers may bridge this divide through intelligently-targeted contributions that attempt to match with their customer input requests. From a business perspective, a 'reach-out' towards seemingly impossible goals,...

Since 1975 the number of working-holiday-makers (WHMs) visiting Australia have grown considerably. The Australian Holiday-Working-Visa has allowed WHMs to obtain work in Australia. Agreements with twenty different countries worldwide have facilitated this unique, short-term, multicultural...

The services area of the economy encapsulates sectors include: transportation, information, financial, securities, commodities, leasing, scientific, professional, management, health, education, arts, entertainment, recreation, non profit, and the like. Services have been investigated from...

Marketing is a key initiative that has received little attention in the creation of additional value for the online real estate business. This paper develops a structured approach to translate key aspects of Internet-related marketing as an enabling technology on business strategies, and...

This framework offers positioning and revitalizing approaches by which high performing global businesses may strategically meet their global business challenges. These approaches offer ways to capture business competitiveness, and if approached in unison can yield additional benefit to the...