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Summary: The eBusiness Manual
Review: I found this book to be extremely helpful in understanding the critical success factors in migrating current applications to the Internet Economy. Working for a large company, I am continually searching for better business processes to manage aggressive fulfillment deadlines and provide better customer care. The book challenges the reader to look beyond technology as the answer to improve efficiencies and focus on identifying the application framework to E-enabling your business.Killer platforms not killer apps. For a non-techie business manager, E-business 2.0 is a great reference for how to think about application platforms as the basis for constructing corporate infrastructure. The in-depth analysis of different app platfroms highlights the true business benefits that can be achieved across functional areas of a company. The author's have taken their extensive Internet consulting expertise and married that with real-life implementation experience to deliver the premier Internet business transformation reference guide!
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Summary: Forward thinking & insightful. VERY Highly recommended
Review: An excellent book is one that makes you think, wonder, and question your assumptions. This is precisely that book when it comes to E-business. This book's focus on strategy AND technology makes it stand out of the crowd. It was in this author's work in 1995 that we first began to hear about electronic commerce. This pioneering, insighful, and forward thinking characteristic is clarly visible in this revision. Although I owned the previous edition, the additions since the last edition made it a worthy acquisition for my personal collection. The power to think beyond the immediate---an obsession that led to the burst of the dot-com bubble--is emphasized here. In applying the author's frameworks, the collaboration between Napster and Batrlesmaan was quite predictable. The chapter on trading digital goods alone is worth the price of this book. This book takes a remarkably cautionary approach that suggests that strategies of "examples" are still examples, not strategies by themselves. Don Tapscott emphasizes this in the introduction to this book. This book helps you think in terms of carving your own roadmap. Having built your own roadmap translates to the inability of competitors to "copy" your approach. This is certainly a book that is ahead of our times, and worth every penny of the 30ish bucks that is costs. Everytime I read a certain section, I can immediately relate to the latest issue of Business Week and its e-biz sectioin reports on terrible failures and envied successes. Read it, reread it, dog ear it, and put it under your pillow for a goodnight's sleep. Very, very, very highly recommended.
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Summary: Very insightful
Review: This book still holds up rather well given all the changes that took place in the e-business space in the last couple of years. The authors really seem to understand this space. I heard Ravi Kalakota speak at a seminar in Cincinati. He was fantastic. He is very articulate about the trends that are shaping the e-business and e-commerce landscape. Highly recommend this book to those who want to understand the basics of e-business.
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Summary: Excellent book on e-biz app infrastructure
Review: Most e-business books don't get into the IT implementation side. They often gloss over the details and difficulties associated with what it takes to get it done. E-Business is not all about strategies and business models, it is about implementation and careful execution - one project at a time. This is more true in Fortune 2000 companies, which are just coming off large ERP implementations. They are all worried about how to leverage the ERP investment. The new-age gurus and consultants are telling them to junk everything in the race to e-business. This advice may work for some but for most it will lead to disaster. This book really asks and answers fundamental questions, how do you systematically invest in building an integrated e-business infrastructure. What pieces do you invest in and how do you sequence your decisions when each framework (CRM, supply-chain etc.) take 3 years to implement. The key point that I got out of this book is that e-business is a journey that requires tremendous commitment especially in a large firm. Managers who are after e-business better understand what it takes to build rock-solid applications.
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Summary: Techie vs. Business point of Review
Review: I really liked this book. I am doing an MBA at the moment in the Michael Smurfit Business School and was trying to get an example for an eBusiness Model. The choice in the end came between Weil's Book 'Place and Space' and Kalakota's, but, there was no choice. Even though I have the greatest respect for Weil. Kalakota was pragmatic. At first as I staggered through the earlier chapters I thought, 'Hello' ... have you heard of dot.con ( we are talking about techie stuff...)and then it clicked , literally , this guy , or should I say lady and gent, have it all sussed. All eBusiness models should be based on sound business principles.
'e' has changed the principles but it is still the same message. Incorporate and get on with it. That's the message and do it as soon as possible. That's the reality! Business has not changed, just the tools, and the speed ...But beware once you do it, you have to keep on doing it, to come out on tops, it'a a reiterative cycle, OK babe...
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Summary: A good text, a powerful understanding.
Review: I read this for as a text for a course in ECommerce and I enjoyed the candid dialogue that the author used in this book. The examples and ideas are not outdated. Not a how to book, but more of a these are the main business concepts and opportunities you can benefit from, book. Really enjoyed it.
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Summary: Excellent overview of Enterprise Apps
Review: This book presents an excellent executive overview of the enterprise applications landscape. The book has detailed chapters on the various building blocks of a modern digital enterprise. It systematically covers CRM, Web-based Sales, ERP, SCM, Business Intelligence, EAI, E-procurement and Financials. This is a must read for employees of companies adopting enterprise apps, new business analysts and MBA students.
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Summary: I liked it.
Review: I am a high school student participating in the DECA marketing competition e-business/e-commerce category. I found this book very usefull in preparing me for the competition. Definate five stars. Great beginners book... probably good for bigshots too :)
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Summary: Integration of e-business components
Review: A very insightful and lucid analysis of the components comprising an e-business strategy.
Although the book gives you an introduction to these, it does not say much on on how all these components will interact and coordinate ? What kind of information flow will be between these components?
It would have been great if a case study detailing these interactions, had been included in the book.
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Summary: Good book... if you work in a company!
Review: This book is useful for beginners if you work in a large company where buzzwords like CRM, ERP, SCM, e-procurement, business intelligence, EAI etc. are being thrown around constantly by consultants. Also, it is common that many managers use these terms without understanding what these mean. This book explains these terms in the context of business using a rather good integrated framework that seems to be referenced extensively by IBM Global Services. If you are an expert, this book is not for you.
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