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Summary: highly conceptual
Review: The book gives a great insight into the ins and outs of ebusiness and what the future is likely to be like. However, I feel that it stops there. The text is highly conceptual - I feel like I'm simply skimming the surface of ebusiness as a whole.
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Summary: not what it purports to be
Review: This book is supposed to address implementation of e-business. Instead, it goes over the standard concepts and ideas. Most people are getting beyond this book. I have purchased three books that claim to focus on implementation. This is the worse. There are no specific guidelines. There are only the normal examples that have been hashed over for years. The best book is dynamic e-bus implementation management. It at least has specific ideas and deals with many real life issues.
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Summary: High-level; Good Synopsis
Review: Kalakota's book provides a crisp, high-level overview of the e-business landscape. This book is written to the CEO and other executives. It is not designed for the technical specialist as it provides little detail on how to set up certain systems/platforms. What is does offer is an overarching panorama of the important areas to be aware of in migrating to an e-business framework. These include, e-procurement, supply chain management, selling chain management, CRM, ERP, and other functional and/or enterprise-wide applications. Each chapter is brimming with terms, acronyms, charts, and information. It would be hard to assimilate all this material in a one-day read for example. I would take each chapter in small bites. One of the things I liked about the book was all the good questions scattered throughout. These are the types of questions every company needs to be asking and wrestling with. They are fundamental strategy questions with an e-business bent. For example, if you don't know how to define the interrelationships in your supply chain, or how your infrastructure can allow the creation of new value propositions, then you might want to start asking these questions. It is quite apparent, as illustrated in this book and others, that there is too much money to be saved, too many markets to penetrate, and too many methods of leveraging competencies, to not be taken by an e-business model that makes information transparent, inventory visible, and collaboration the status quo. Kalakota ends the book with some strategies for implementing an e-business blueprint. Similar to most major projects, issues of scope, scale, politics, etc. come into play. The last two chapters provide a relatively good consolidation and closure of the material. Overall, I think this a valuable book for the executive and manager to have on their bookshelf.
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Summary: Good managerial text
Review: More for the manager than the casual reader this is a detailed book with many useful ideas. It can be contradictory and some areas, such as the Rules for e-Business in chapter one, do not always stand up to scrutiny.
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Summary: General overview on back-end systems
Review: Although it provides a good overview on back-end systems, it does not cover the full range of e-business. A bit disappointing.
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Summary: Good Overview of E-Biz Applications
Review: This book was very useful in educating me about the different types of applications that make up e-business. Prior to this book, I read a lot of books on e-biz strategy -- Net Ready, Blown to Bits -- but none of them ever got into any detail of how to implement, or issues in implementation. I think most of us know that 'e' is here to stay - the strategists don't have to preach from their pulpit. Most of us are struggling with how to implement the bloody thing quickly with lousy tools and management that changes their mind every month.
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Summary: If it was only that simple
Review: Kalakota and Robinson have written a worthwhile text, however it is really at a very strategically broad level. The picture painted is very rosy indeed. The problem is that the real world does not allow the sort of product integration assumed, nor can implementation be achieved at the speed necessary to meet with the authors expectations. Overall an interesting view from the top. Not a book for those looking to actually achieve an end result in the e-business systems implementation arena.
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Summary: Helpful to me.Thank to the author!
Review: I have not very much to say.I haven't look this book,but I read the details at Amazon.com.Just like scanning and skipping the book.I am a beginner for study E-Business.In our country,most of this kind of books are made of "clipper and glue".I am very appreciate contacting the original ideas of E-Business.
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Summary: a waste of paper, the trees could have been put to a better
Review: We were FORCED to buy this book as part of our e-commerce paper at university. I found it full of dumb buzzwords eg. "e-supply chain fusion" which I'm sure will help me get a job when I go for an interview with companies like SAP or PWC, but where's the meat ? Having worked for companies who implement B2B and supply chain management solutions (always on-time & UNDER budget) I wonder if Dr Ravi Kalakota has actually worked in the REAL world ? It's sad that upper management read these books then go out and spend millions of dollars on solutions which always end up being buggy, behind schedule and so complex that they need to hire in other consultants just to come in and fix things.
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Summary: Excellent reading material
Review: This is a very good book and gives you a picture of what's going to be the areas in which we will see great strides in the next couple of years. The authors have presented their analysis in a clear and easily understandable format - for example like explaining why it's 'E-business' and not 'E-commerce'. They have also taken care to speak about products being used. I picked up the book thinking I would read it on and off, but was so absorbed in it that I read it cover to cover in one stretch. All said, an excellent read for the 'New Economy' areas.
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