CONSORTIUM FOR GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Raj Veeramani (Director), Jackie Novak (Assistant Director) Alfonso Gutierrez (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, justifying and implementing 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 Members: American Family Insurance, American TV & Appliance, Brady Corporation, Briggs & Stratton Corp., CNH (Case New Holland Corporation), CUES, CUNA & Affiliates, CUNA Mutual Group, Cysive, Inc., Datex-Ohmeda, Deutch & Weiss, Endries International, Inc., Graber Products, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inacom Information Systems, Kraft Foods, Lafollette Godfrey & Kahn, Lands' End, Marshall Erdman & Associates, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Rockwell Automation, Rural Mutual Insurance Company, TDS Telecom, The Swiss Colony, The University Book Store, von Briesen Purtell and Roper, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership