Smart Business Networks (eBook)

Peter H.M. Vervest, Eric Van Heck, Ken Preiss, Louis-Francois Pau (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2005
XII, 442 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-26694-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people and organizations, bound together in a dynamic and unpredictable way, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The question is: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart', that is, just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms. Business processes would become portable: The end-to-end management of processes running across many different organizations in many different forms would become possible. This book presents you the outcomes of an energizing and new direction in management science.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Table of Contents 9
Introduction 13
1 Welcome to Smart Business Networks 14
2 The Actors 24
3 The Emergence of Smart Business Networks 29
4 Challenges of Smart Business Networks – Five Perspectives 41
5 The Cordys Panel – Science Meets Business 59
Section 1 Outcomes of Smart Business Networks 82
6 Spontaneous Collaborative Networks 83
7 Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network? 98
8 Information Flow Structure in Large- Scale Product Development Organizational Networks 111
9 Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business Networking 132
10 Unlocking Smart Business Networks 149
11 Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains 163
Section 2 Execution of Smart Business Networks 172
12 Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network 173
13 Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second- Hand Book Trade 187
14 Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology 198
15 Building Networks In-Sync 212
16 “Off the Shelf” Smart Business Networks 225
17 Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks 238
Section 3 Governance of Smart Business Networks 254
18 Embedded Coordination in a Business Network 255
19 Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks 270
20 The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market 285
21 Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management 302
Section 4 Design of Smart Business Networks 315
22 Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks 316
23 How Much Business Modularity? 331
24 The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks 341
25 Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management 355
26 What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments? 369
27 Smart ICT Support for Business Networks 381
28 Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking 396
29 Public Administration Networked with Business: Towards Architectures for Interoperable and Retrievable Law 411
List of Participants and Authors 425
Index 429

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2005
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 442 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Architectures • business • Business Process • business process management • information system • information systems • Information Technology (IT) • Management • Marketing • Networks • operating system • organization • Organizations • Smart Business Network • Strategy • WebService
• ISBN-10: 3-540-26694-1 / 3540266941
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-26694-5 / 9783540266945