CONSORTIUM FOR GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Raj Veeramani (Director), Jackie Novak (Assistant Director) 266D Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1572 Tel: 608/265-0645 Fax: 608/262-8454 E-mail: raj@engr.wisc.edu, jnovak@engr.wisc.edu, alfonso@engr.wisc.edu www.uwebc.org

CGEC conducts multidisciplinary research on the use of e-commerce and e-business technologies and complementary re-engineered business processes and organizational strategies to enhance the competitiveness and effectiveness of companies. CGEC is a university-industry partnership promoting education and research of new e-commerce paradigms for business-to-consumer, business-to-business and intrabusines interactions. Members have access to faculty expertise, applied projects, member workgroups, networking forums, workshops, "Ask an Expert" web/teleconferences and educational materials that assist companies in planning, justification and implementation of e-commerce as a core business strategy. CGEC acts as an unbiased learning community for organizations to share e-commerce implementation experiences, lessons learned, best practices and performance metrics for mutual benchmarking.

Industrial Sponsors: Accenture, American Family Insurance, American TV & Appliance, Arthur Andersen, Brady Corp., CNH (Case New Holland Corporation), Cook & Franke, CUES, CUNA & Affiliates, CUNA Mutual Group, Cysive, Inc. Deutch & Weiss, Endries International, Inc. Foley & Lardner, Graber Products, Grant Thornton LLP, Hufcor, Inacom Information Systems, Kraft Foods, Lafollette Godfrey & Kahn, Lands' End, Madison Newspapers, Inc., Marshall Erdman & Associates, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Optavia Corp., Optimator, Inc. Rayovac, Rockwell Automation, Rural Mutual Insurance Company, Sargento, TDS Telecom, The Swiss Colony, The University Book Store, von Briesen Purtell and Roper, W.W. Grainger, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership