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Summary: A plug for ERP
Review: The book really only make one real point. Companies need to integrate their computer systems seamlessly and completely into their business to be able to succeed in the new economy. Thats all it says. The rest is a summary of ERP, CRM and other conventional solutions (such as system integration with your business partners) with constant plugs for SAP. It is a useful guide for large, lumbering giants who have a million different and incompatible computer systems.
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Summary: Roadmap hmm...
Review: If you like diagrams and number this is the book for you. If you like stories and examples this book pales to Roy H. Williams new book Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is very comprehensive and covers a lot of ground. It is easy to read and is among the first books that gets into the back-office applications side of e-business. Definite MUST READ for consultants.
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Summary: ONLY ONE Chart useful, while worth 3 stars ALONE
Review: The chart illustrate enterprise e-business functional building-block is extremly useful. While other part is just so so.
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Summary: This is what you need to know to succeed in e-business today
Review: This book defines how large global corporations are struggling to define e-business, how it will effect their company and why they will need to change to compete. I recommend E-Business Roadmap for Success for the following reasons:> It gives you the strategy, reasoning and goals to get you through the global corporate maze. > This book utilizes case studies of global organizations that are well on their way to resolving their e-business issues. > It will help you grasp the e-business big picture and set priorities to move ahead in "internet time". > It details how you will manage the challenges of moving your organization to an e-business firm. I recommend that any one (managers/directors/CEO's) interested in how e-business is effecting large corporations read this book.
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Summary: Structural Migration is important for large firms
Review: This book is useful if you are in a large company worrying about how to migrate your applications infrastructure to tackle e-commerce. The authors make a clear distinction between Value Migration (how the business model is changing) and Structural Migration (how the IT/App infrastructure is changing). Most folks are talking about the former when they are talking about e-business, but most large companies are doing the latter. Large companies like Boeing, Allied Signal, GE, Ford, Delta Airlines are not going to throw away existing investments in applications like SAP and start new. It may be seem logical given the pressure to become "e" but it would result in chaos if followed. A more logical challenge is how to migrate existing architecture (multi-million dollars of sunk cost) into an e-world.
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Summary: This book is more like a "Roadmap for E-failure"
Review: Yes, I read this book and want to tell you to save your time and save some agony on the road to e-success. This book is more like a "Roadmap for E-Failure" and here's 5 reasons why: 1. If you are at the CEO/C level or VP level of a Fortune 2000 company and apply what you read in this book, you are bound to FAIL because of several reasons which are best summarized by reading Gary Hamel's 9/99 Harvard Business Review Article "Bringing Silicon Valley Inside." 2. If you are a budding entrepreneur wanting to do an e-startup or some mid level t-manager (traditional business manager) wanting your company to implement some new e-business plans my advice is JUST DO IT and go straight to the top and tell your Chairman or CEO why it's so great and why you need $250K to $5million of seed money to make it happen. As an alternative, contact an e-coach/e-mentor to show you how to innovate and be an entrepreneur in 30 days or less (Yes, that's fast INTERNET TIME.) If your company does not want to do it I would suggest you have an e-mentor take your plan to a company you consider as a top competior in your industry. 3. These authors are primarily academics / consultants and this book is not based on "Real Life" examples ... but rather it is based more from secondary research. The old example applies here: "Those that can - DO, those that can't - TEACH or CONSULT" If you need a e-coach or e-mentor, then select the right one. 4. This book has at the end of each chapter a cute like section called: "Memo to CEO" Are they joking, most CEO people I know are more concerned about "preserving" their old business model and hefty bonuses vs. "destroying" their models and putting in a new e-business model. Yes, their are exceptions like at the GAP ... but these authors did not point them out. 5. If I were writing a more serious review of this book I would suggest they retitle page xvii to: "Who Shouldn't Read This Book" ... my answer would be those people who have faith in their e-abilities and don't need some poor advice like this. GEJ
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Summary: Excellent synthesis
Review: In world of fads, acronyms and new buzz-words, IT managers don't have the time to dig through the hype to figure out what is real and what isn't. As a result, they are often confused (sometimes intentionally by vendors/consultants). Confusion is a serious problem when you are making multi-million dollar investment decisions that can either make or break your enterprise. e-Business is not about throwing up a good looking website. e-Business is about architecting a mission-critical back-office to support the end-to-end transactions and providing an integrated customer experience. Creating a 24x7 integrated back-office isn't easy. Most e-business projects fail here. This book helped me get a clearer picture of the issues that I am dealing with every day as a CIO. The book systematically builds the e-business investment landscape and then delves into each major application framework. This book is certainly something every e-biz implementation person should read.
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Summary: Strategic and practical
Review: This is a REAL ebusiness book for people who are actually involved in trying to make the new economy organisation happen. The case for change is made powerfully and the frameworks provided are useful. An outstanding contribution.
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Summary: Finally, a well written, step by step roadmap to e-business
Review: I first heard of Ravi Kalalota from his students at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta. I have been anxiously awaiting this book and actually got a copy as it was being unboxed. I wasn't disappointed and am shaping my business from the information I get chapter to chapter - thank you Mr. Kalakota.
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