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Summary: Inadequate
Review: This is one of the worst IT books I have ever read (and I have read many). It's full of flowery concepts and hype. It's not for the practitioner. The language is patronizing. Go elsewhere!
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Summary: The foundation reference book for understanding e-business
Review: The central idea of this book is that ebusiness exists on top of a foundation of other software technologies. These technologies are Enterprise Resource Planning software, Supply Chain Management, Selling Chain Management, e-Procurement and Customer Relationship Management software. These foundation software techologies need to be implemented in a company before making the decision to implement an e-business infrastructure ( in a way the core techologies are the e-business infrastructure ). The book focuses each chapter on a core techology and also includes chapters on e-business strategy and tactics. Another central theme of the book is that business strategy and the core business ideas of revenue ,cost and profit should drive the development of e-business in a company. Technology implementation for the sake of techology and without specific business objectives (ie run by the IT department) is strongly opposed in the book. This second edition of E-business extends on the ideas of the first and provides more up to date examples. However, one thing that is missing is more detailed information on the wide variety of software packages that make up the ebusiness infrastructure and then examples of companies using them. For anybody interested in e-business required reading.
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Summary: Draws upon the author's extensive personal experience
Review: In e-Business 2.0, Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson successfully collaborate to show how business managers at all levels are rewiring their online enterprises to take maximum advantage of today's technology to build cutting-edge web-based businesses to recruit, serve, and retain customers, manage suppliers, and integrate selling chains. e-Business 2.0 draws upon the author's extensive personal experience working with leading businesses to provide a clear "how to" manual for identifying fundamental design principles for building a commercially successful e-business incorporating the latest strategies and techniques regardless of the product or service involved. e-Business 2.0 is essential and very highly recommended reading for anyone charged with a management responsibility for the success of an online business enterprise.
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Summary: Thought leadership...
Review: Ravi gets it's exactly right. One of the few people thinking about the New Business with a fully-functioning brain. If you need to create value in the corporate world in 2001 and beyond, buy this book and learn it off by heart. R.
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Summary: The challenge is "click and mortar" infrastructure
Review: This book aimed at brick and mortar transformation into click and mortar is definitely going to survive the dot.com carnage. The book really is addressed at consultants, managers and "C" level executives who are trying to transform their internal application infrastructure to the next generation platforms. The roadmap for doing this transformation presented in the book is clear and cogent. As a 'practicing' CIO of a large company I would definitely recommend this book to all those who are grappling with issues like how do we make investments in next-generation click and mortar apps? how do we tackle inter-enterprise integration issues? what does customer relationship management and e-sales really mean? The Internet mania is dying. Now the real work of transforming brick and mortar companies begins. We need books like this that are less hype and more practical. Most practicing managers understand the challenges posed by going digital. They are looking for solutions that work long-term and make economic sense.
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Summary: This is real e-Business
Review: e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success by Ravi Kalakota, Marcia Robinson is not the kind of book you want to read when you're sleepy. It's small print and sparse graphics had initially turned me away from reading this book. However, as I began to go over the various chapters of e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success I realized that Kalakota and Robinson have put together a literal blue print for e-Business success. Not, it's not 1.0, but "2.0"! As more and more "real" or "brick 'n mortar" businesses put their businesses online, there needs to be a clear deliniation of what is hype and fiction. What's a fly by night Internet start up and what turly is a distince "e-Business" e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success leads the way. This book is really NOT for a "mom and pop" hardware store, but for companies that want to completely embrace all the Internet has to offer and ensure that their business leverages the opportunities it can provide. "To compete effectively in the e-commerce world, a company must structurally transform its internal foundation. This structural change requires a company to develop an innovative e-business strategy, focussing on speed to makret and breakthrough excercises" e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success "What sets the truly great organizations apart is their ability to use state-of-the-art e-commerce processes to transform themselves. They do the following three things well. 1. They redefine value for their cusotmers 2. They build powerful e-business designs that outperform the competition 3. They understand customer priorities and consistently raise customer expectations to new heights." e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success is more than a book, but a busines manual for strategically using the tool of the Internet to radically transform how you do business. In "Constructing the e-Business Architecture: Enterprise Apps", Chatper 5 of e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success, the authors talk about applications and integration - the technology bedrock of e-Business. By using case studies and examples, e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success will give you a birds eye view of how to acquire e-Business applications and tools for your specific business. If your a CEO, Presdient or some other upper management, and are serious about exploring how e-Busienss can be for your business, then e-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success is a must read.
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Summary: Good 2nd Outing
Review: I had read Dr. Kalakota's first edition and he and Marcia Robinson did an insighful and thorough view of e-Business and the intergration of company systems into the e-Commerce infastructure. I was wondering, "Well, it's obviously changed with the downfall of the dot coms, so is this new book going to address that as well?" It does and more. I found this edition and its changes from e-Business well worth the changes. Way to go Dr. Kalakota!
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Summary: Excellent Overview of e-business Transformation
Review: I have used this book as a text in three classes at UCLA. The class is e-business, Transform Your Compay Now. The students found it an excellent overview of the total picture. No other book I have seen does such a good job of explaining the basics of e-business. I am also a full time e-business consultant for a major company. The book is out of date and needs an update. The basics are there but e-markets are taking off as is wireless e-business. I believe these writers could do an excellent sequel if one is not already in the works.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book gives good insights about future of ecommerce.
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Summary: For dummies and middle-range executives.
Review: This is an excellent opportunity for people that want to be introduced in the new concepts and paradigms in the new economies. It`s also well focused on all the posibilities new technologies are offering. If you don`t know anything about this posibilities, or want to explore new ones, this is your book. If you are already an IT manager, or an expert in this field, don`t even bother to read it.
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