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Summary: A MUST READ
Review: This book is a MUST READ before move to on-line. The opinion inside is market oriented, business oriented. The author cares about how to help you satisfy your customer and expand market instead of implementing the so-called e-biz solution. Strong recommended!
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Summary: e-Business is different from e-commerce
Review: This is the first book that clearly states how e-business is different from e-commerce. Most "e" writers don't seem to understand the difference. e-Business is the transition from a traditional IT infrastructure into a complex set of integrated "inter-locking" application frameworks such as ERP, SCM, CRM, ORM, EAI, e-Sales etc. Most companies are making their investments in these frameworks. e-Commerce may be the cause, but investments in integrated apps is clearly where the action is, at least for the next two years. I must praise the authors for seeing this trend years ago, for it takes at least two years from concept to publication. Only today is the mainstream market getting this key idea: e-commerce is just the tip of iceberg (10%), e-business is the hidden portion of the iceberg (90%). Dr. Kalakota does seem to have a knack for spotting key trends quickly. His 1995 Frontiers book was way ahead of its time.
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Summary: Great book for baselining the language of eBusiness
Review: In an age where concepts are flashing by so fast, its easy to forget that the basics need to be documented. If you manage any internet related business unit....it helps if your team has the right vocabulary when dreaming up the next killer app. A must read for the silicon valley or ".com" hopeful. Also, this is a great 5-hour-plane-ride alternative to e-mail.
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Summary: A real cracker on eBusiness which helps map the future
Review: eBusiness is full of hype, but most managers are trying to figure out what impact will the Internet economy have on my business? and what do I do about it? Ravi and Marcia have come up with a cracker which explains what the components of eBusiness are and how to map a route. In particular I think chapter 11 on Developing the eBusiness design is most helpful in clearing this fog. A great Investment!
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Summary: Absolutely excellent
Review: If this book does not give you e-business anxiety about the magnitude of transformation task, you may not be understanding it's full potential.
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Summary: An outstanding contribution
Review: A great book with real life examples. The first book on Ecommerce which provides a integrated perspective and how CRM, Supply chain, ERP etc are slowly merging towards Ecommerce and how they fit together. I have read more than 15 Ecommerce books and nothing comes closer to this. A MUST MUST READ.
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Summary: Good book
Review: For a manager of a large company who is just getting into e-business, this book has been very useful in organizing the landspace. For 32 dollars I got the knowledge/insight into what is going on that I would have to spend at least 100,000 consulting dollars to get.
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Summary: My 5th grader could have done this
Review: Did we really need another book that says the same old thing? The authors get points for bringing a lot of issues & concerns with eBusiness together. They lose more points in originality, continuity, and foresight which all seem to be non-existent. The book is a decent primer for eBusiness if you lack general knowledge, but fails to provide any indepth knowledge or principles for true value.
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Summary: Good book
Review: This book is good for managers who are making the transition from e-business strategy to an e-business blueprint. The blueprint discussed in this book is quite interesting and thought provoking. Even good for creating an investment portfolio. Chapter 9 on e-procurement was quite educational about why Ariba and CommerceOne quickly became multibillion dollar firms.
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Summary: Absolutely Right On!
Review: I am a CIO of a large company and this is the first book on the "e" subject that has any depth. The authors present a systematic roadmap to building out the "e" infrastructure. They seem to understand the business aligment problem -- that established companies have IT and business assets that they cannot discard as advocated by some "so-called" gurus. If you are part of a large company developing an e-business strategy, this book is for you. It forces you to think about large scale application investments systematically.
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