Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
won 5 great prizes in EC-IC 2016 Yahoo Kimo Intercollegiate Creative Electronic Commerce Competition.

【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology received the highest turnover: the advisor and the team members】

Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in E-Commerce Idea Competition jointly organized by the Taiwan Branch of I Yahoo Information Inc. and the Innovation Center and Sun Yat-Sen University. The sophomore team led by Prof. Jih-Hao Chang and Jun-Nan Chen of the Department of Information Management won 5 great prizes, including the overall operating Award, Digital Marketing Award, and the Best Group Prize. In addition, over the contest platform STUS made a total of transaction turnover as high as about 780,000, the highest of all the participating schools.

【All the team members of "Shrimp Potato Men" team, which won the Overall Operating Award Premium Prize】

As the participating students said, the EC-IC competition involved a process to find manufacturers, pricing, order processing and cash flow control, collection and payment. They had to use a variety of Internet marketing techniques, such as business and Facebook fan group activities and film production ads with the topic of the video and image, to gather people to other stores. The team and its opponents were all juniors, seniors and graduate students. The competition was very fierce and intense. After two months of hard work, they finally won the favor of the judges. It was not an easy job indeed.

【All the team members of "Egg to Make Men Taste for Good" team, which won the Digital Marketing Award of Excellence and the overall operation Award Excellence Award.】

The EC-IC Yahoo Kimo Intercollegiate Creative Electronic Commerce Competition has been held for 9 consecutive years so far. Through approaches different from schoolwork—homework and reports, it offers changes to encourage students to leave their classrooms and surf the Internet to do business, let their creativity soared over actual operations, and allow their brains and ideas work thoroughly in practice, whereby nurturing e-commerce professionals in Taiwan. The Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, with the cultivation of information technology personnel and management capability, equipment and curriculum planning focused on planning, practical experience and ability to integrate the management and development of information systems, has brought life to the future of the industry by introducing considerable student with competitiveness and excellence.