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Summary: Great book
Review: This book picks up on where the Innovator's Dilemma ended. Great companies will go under in the next five years because not enough management attention has been paid to the most important thing in modern day corporations: efficient and integrated application infrastructure. One only needs to look at companies like Cisco, Charles Schwab, Amazon.com to see how a sophisticated app. infrastructure can leave competition in the dust. The "e" in e-business is not about vision. The "e" stands for execution. Execution today means designing and implementing an app infrastructure than can accelerate the business goals. Contrary to all the e-hype, this is not easy. Especially in a large corporation with conflicting agendas. This book clearly shows how the existing app infrastructure like SAP can be a noose around the company's neck if not properly built upon in the race to become an e-corporation. A must read for every senior and line of business manager tasked with E-commerce responsibilities. Should be made mandatory reading for all executives, many of whom in my humble opinion, are driving blind in the e-space.
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Summary: Excellent Book on EC Strategy
Review: An excellent read worth it. The emphasis on strategy makes this book standout among the "me-too"s that seem to flood the market. This book takes a remarkably cautionary approach that suggests that strategies of "examples" are still examples, not strategies by themselves. This is unlike many consultants who would suggest that your company "copy" another competitor's approach. This book helps you think in terms of developing your own roadmap. Having built your own roadmap translates to the inability of competitors to "copy" your approach. Heck, sometimes I wish that this book existed before startups like eBay became worth $22 billion and even "unheard of" newbies like eFax command market worths ranging in "just" a few hundred million. This book is a laudable effort and DEFINITELY worth the forty bucks. A *MUST* read.
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Summary: Excellent Primer on E-Business Application Frameworks
Review: This book provides a great blueprint to e-business. The hard part of e-business is not the 100,000 ft level strategy that most 'pundits' provide. The hard part is the translation of that 100,000 ft strategy into actionable decisions that can be implemented. This book provides that critical translation. Also, the book provides insight into a widely-faced problem: how to move a Fortune 1000 company that has to make the transition from a SAP type infrastructure to an e-business infrastructure. Definitely worth the money
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Summary: e-Business as a structural migration/business model problem
Review: If you're looking for a book that spells out a roadmap for e-Business success with a satisfying theoretical framework and real world examples then you've found it.
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Summary: Extremely Well Written Guide to e-Business
Review: Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson are e-commerce experts who understand the strategic evolution of the enterprise towards e-business. In e-Business: Roadmap for Success Ravi and Marcia strip the hype off electronic commerce and show managers how to address the organizational challenges that need to be managed as a result of this emerging business model and provide a framework for mastering a successful migration. This book includes real world information on strategies that web savvy companies, including Amazon.com and Cisco, have employed to succeed in smoothly transitioning to this emerging business model. This book is a must read for any manager interested in implementing an e-business initiative.
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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: Very insightful
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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