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Smart business networks

Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms.
Print Book, English, ©2005
Springer, Berlin, ©2005
xii, 442 pages
9783540228400, 3540228403
1130095686
Welcome to Smart Business Networks.- The Actors.- The Emergence of Smart Business Networks.- Challenges of Smart Business Networks — Five Perspectives.- The Cordys Panel — Science Meets Business.- Outcomes of Smart Business Networks.- Spontaneous Collaborative Networks.- Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network?.- Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks.- Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business Networking.- Unlocking Smart Business Networks.- Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains.- Execution of Smart Business Networks.- Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network.- Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade.- Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology.- Building Networks In-Sync.- “Off the Shelf” Smart Business Networks.- Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks.- Governance of Smart Business Networks.- Embedded Coordination in a Business Network.- Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks.- The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market.- Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management.- Design of Smart Business Networks.- Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks.- How Much Business Modularity?.- The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks.- Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management.- What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments?.- Smart ICT Support for Business Networks.- Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking.- Public Administration Networked with Business: Towards Architectures for Interoperable and Retrievable Law.