ion for the organization.
Checkpoint Payroll will provide customers with an integrated employee benefit program that encompasses all tax and payroll functions as well as providing timely and accurate information regarding employee benefits to all employees of our clients. These services will be provided with the highest commitment to ethics, accuracy and customer service.
This vision statement notes that the company is committed to ethical behavior both inside and outside the organization. Payroll is a sensitive area, and clients need to be assured that their information will be handled carefully. At the same time, employees need to be confident that the company takes an ethical approach in its internal relationships, as well. Accuracy and customer service are as important to both clients and employees as ethical practices. In addition, the vision statement notes that Checkpoint is concerned with all employee benefits, not just payroll and taxes.
THE IMPORTANCE OF E-COMMERCE TO EBAY
eBay relies on electronic commerce in order to succeed, and it has stumbled when it has strayed from that model. It maintains no warehouse, carries no inventory, and does not have to concern itself with logistical issues. In the relatively short time that the company has been in business, it has established a reputation for providing a secure site for buyers and sellers. eBay pioneered the use of message boards for buyers and sellers to comment on one another, and the company monitors its site to detect fraud and other abuses.
eBay's primary weakness may be an inability to accurately gauge how best to expand its business. The company acquired Butterfield & Butterfield, a traditional auction house, in 1999, with the goal of bringing online trading to the long-established company. Observers maintained that eBay also sought the credibility that Butterfield & Butterfield offered in the high end auction market. However, the company was...