The Network Experience: New Value from Smart Business Networks

✍ Scribed by Peter H. M. Vervest, Diederik W. van Liere, Li Zheng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These Smart Business Networks (SBNs) enable individual organizations to compete more effectively and to respond better to a changing world. This idea attracted a diverse group of academic scholars and business professionals to Beijing from May 19-23, 2008, hosted by Tsinghua University. They discovered new ways to manage network resources, operate business processes across a network, create a business operations platform, understand the importance of network position and the smart mastering of technology. Effective managers, they concluded, must have a firm understanding of these fundamental network concepts in order to orchestrate the networks of the future. This book presents the results of an intense and energizing event which resulted in new theoretical foundations and practical insights.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Network Experience — New Value from Smart Business Networks....Pages 3-14
The Network Factor — How to Remain Competitive....Pages 15-35
Process Management in Business Networks....Pages 37-48
Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities....Pages 49-55
The Actors....Pages 57-64
Front Matter....Pages 66-68
Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment....Pages 69-81
Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks — Let's Create “Life” from Inert Information....Pages 83-97
Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market....Pages 99-118
Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise....Pages 119-136
Front Matter....Pages 138-140
Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks....Pages 141-163
Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network....Pages 165-178
Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics....Pages 179-192
Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry....Pages 193-209
Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries....Pages 211-228
Front Matter....Pages 230-232
Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network....Pages 233-248
Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's....Pages 249-266
The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents....Pages 267-284
The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility....Pages 285-299
Front Matter....Pages 302-304
Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows....Pages 305-326
Orchestrating Smart Business Networks....Pages 327-335
Front Matter....Pages 302-304
Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks....Pages 337-346
Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks....Pages 347-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-370

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Business Information Systems