This 2012 course is my continuous experiment to design and create a course for electronic classroom in the future. Nevertheless, IDM requires a lot of visual comprehension, which challenges the instructor to integrate both digital materials and non-digital ones. Students taking this course share the responsibilities to convert the non-digital parts to all digital style for future course. Of course, people interactions, such as classroom discussion and Q&As, are always critical chemical reactions and can never be replaced by digital media. As a rule of thumb, participants are expected to:
1.participate in discussion and to verify the terminology and concepts in our weekly meetings;
2.organize a study group of 3 students to cover 3 companies in the same types or kinds of retailing and to keep up with the ever changing world in IDM with news update;
3.choose an IDM in-depth topic (e.g., category management, long tail, etc.) to address the recent development of What, Who, Why and How in IDM.