Smart Business Networks

✍ Scribed by Professor Peter Vervest, Professor Eric van Heck, Professor Louis-François Pau, Professor Kenneth Preiss (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A number of scientists - from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications - gathered at the Vanenburg castle in the Netherlands to discuss a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people, organisations and IT/networking infrastructures, bound together in dynamic, unpredictable ways, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. They posed the question: 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 answer was that we observe the emergence of "business operating systems" that run business processes on different organisational platforms while sharing elements of their infrastructures. Business processes become portable: The end-to-end management of different processes running across different organisations in many different forms becomes possible, while leaving to each actor the ultimate power of choosing its partners in different constellations. This book presents the outcomes of an energizing discussion of this emerging new direction in management science.

✦ Table of Contents

Welcome to Smart Business Networks....Pages 3-12
The Actors....Pages 13-17
The Emergence of Smart Business Networks....Pages 19-30
Challenges of Smart Business Networks — Five Perspectives....Pages 31-48
The Cordys Panel — Science Meets Business....Pages 49-71
Spontaneous Collaborative Networks....Pages 75-89
Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network?....Pages 91-103
Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks....Pages 105-125
Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business Networking....Pages 127-143
Unlocking Smart Business Networks....Pages 145-158
Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains....Pages 159-167
Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network....Pages 171-184
Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade....Pages 185-195
Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology....Pages 197-210
Building Networks In-Sync....Pages 211-223
“Off the Shelf” Smart Business Networks....Pages 225-237
Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks....Pages 239-254
Embedded Coordination in a Business Network....Pages 257-271
Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks....Pages 273-287
The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market....Pages 289-305
Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management....Pages 307-319
Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks....Pages 323-337
How Much Business Modularity?....Pages 339-348
The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks....Pages 349-362
Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management....Pages 363-376
What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments?....Pages 377-388
Smart ICT Support for Business Networks....Pages 389-403
Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking....Pages 405-419
Public Administration Networked with Business: Towards Architectures for Interoperable and Retrievable Law....Pages 421-434

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Information Systems and Communication Service