Research Paper

Circuit City was an American consumer electronics company founded by Samuel Wurtzel

in 1949. By 1990s, Circuit City became the second largest consumer electronics store in the

United States with annual sales of $12 billion. On March 8 2009, Circuit City shutdown all its

stores.

On January 8th at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Circuit City CEO

announced a comeback and relaunch of Circuit City into “a dynamic, a social-focused ecommerce site” and a new business strategy for its retail stores12

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In this case study, assume that Circuit City hired you as the new chief information officer (CIO)

to help relaunch the company into a global e-commerce multinational company. 

Questions:

1. How would IT deliver value to the business?

 2. Proposed the IT infrastructure required to support global e-commerce 

3. Proposed the IT budget for the e-commerce initiative