Business Networking: Shaping Collaboration Between Enterprises

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Hubert Österle, Dr. Elgar Fleisch, Dr. Rainer Alt (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for fast innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. Business Networking proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It is written to serve academic and professional audiences and formulate key success factors and management guidelines. All ideas were developed in close cooperation of research and practice and are documented in numerous original case examples.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction — Chances and Challenges in Business Networking....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Enterprise in the Information Age....Pages 17-53
The Networked Enterprise....Pages 55-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Strategies for Business Networking....Pages 89-110
Business Networking Lessons Learned: Supply Chain Management at Riverwood International....Pages 111-119
Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain Management at ‘The Swatch Group’....Pages 121-133
Knowledge Enabled Customer Relationship Management....Pages 135-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Future Application Architecture for the Pharmaceutical Industry....Pages 155-173
Overview on Supply Chain Management Systems....Pages 175-191
Electronic Commerce in the Procurement of Indirect Goods....Pages 193-209
Templates: Standardization for Business Networking....Pages 211-228
eServices for Integrating eMarkets....Pages 229-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Key Success Factors for Business Networking Systems....Pages 249-264
Towards a Method for Business Networking....Pages 265-287
Application of the Business Networking Method at SAP....Pages 289-303
Architecture Planning for Global Networked Enterprises....Pages 305-322
Business Networking — Summary and Outlook....Pages 323-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-403

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Management/Business for Professionals