Smart Business Networks

Peter H. M. Vervest

ISBN 10: 3642421504 / ISBN 13: 9783642421501

Published by Springer, Springer Nov 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents the dynamic outcome of an expert discussion on Smart Business Networks. The participants gathered at the Vanenburg castle in the Netherlands to discuss the novel concept. They see the future as a developing web of people, organizations and IT/networking infrastructures, bound together in dynamic, unpredictable ways, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The text combines practical cases with new theory and is a must have for both practitioners and researchers.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 456 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smart Business Networks
• Publisher: Springer, Springer Nov 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642421504
• ISBN 13: 9783642421501
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 25D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 686 grams

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Synopsis

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.

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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.