How can the Internet and world wide web improve my long-term competitive advantage? This book helps answer this question by providing a better understanding of the technologies, their potential applications and the ways they can be used to add value for customers, support new strategies, and improve existing operations. It is not just about e-commerce but the broader theme of e-business which affects products, business processes, strategies, and relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors and competitors. To cover future trends, the editors have collected papers from authors operating at the frontiers of the developments so the reader can more appreciate the directions in which these technologies are heading. The resulting 165 essays have been collated into ten sections, which have been grouped in three parts: key issues, applications areas and applications, tools and technologies. A business rarely makes radical changes but is constantly making adjustments to circumstances. Businesses must now adapt to the global implications of the Internet and world wide web. This book hopes to aid awareness of the implications so that the changes are managed wisely.

We are all well aware of the growth e-business initiatives. What you may not realize is the growth in components use: According to Gartner Group "By 2003, at least 70 percent of the total number of new applications will be built primarily from building blocks" ("Component based development - the Next Wave, Research Note, Jan 1999). This book is designed to give practical help by showing how a company can evolve its e-business capability using a step by step component-based approach, providing innovation while leveraging investments in existing systems and software packages. Components provide an ideal underlying fabric for the new world of e-Business. They offer flexible services that can be reused across organizational and geographical boundaries, in different combinations which reflects the open, fluid nature of Internet business.

The task of structuring information on built environment has presented challenges to the research community, software developers and the industry for the last 20 years. Recent work has taken advantage of Web and industry standards such as XML, OWL, IFC and STEP. Another important technology for the fragmented AEC industry is digital communication. Wired or wireless, it brings together architects, engineers and construction site workers, enabling them to exchange information, communicate and work together. Virtual enterprise organization structures, involving mobile teams over distance, are highly compatible with the needs of the construction industry.

Place to Space is the essential e-business playbook that will give leaders the insight and confidence they need to operate successfully in both place and space. The book explains how traditional companies can adapt their bricks-and-mortar legacies to complement and bolster their online ventures. Based on extensive research into dozens of e-business initiatives, this book provides the first systematic, practical analysis of eight viable e-business models; an adaptable hybrid model for competing against online pure plays; and revolutionary schematic tools for analyzing current business models and evaluating promising new web initiatives. Through illuminating case studies of Lonely Planet, General Electric, CDNow, Reuters, and others, the authors show how each model works in practice--from how it makes money to the core competencies and critical factors required to implement it.

E-commerce is booming - Forrester Research predicts this market to grow from 1999's $20.5 billion to $2.7 trillion by 2004. This title covers information an IT manager needs in order to build an effective e-commerce site, including server and software requirements, LAN/WAN connections, security, maintenance, and integration.

The fast-paced world of ebusiness can quickly make conventional educational resources and techniques out of date. This text explores the relationship between information and communication technology and the world of business, which has become an increasingly important and intertwined relationship. This text keeps pace with these changes by providing the "classic" lessons and principles of ebusiness practice. eBusiness: A Canadian Perspective for a Networked World profiles successful Canadian businesses such as Research in Motion and Descartes Systems Group. It cites the shift of the Canadian banking system online and it highlights the experience of the Canadian business person better than any US published competitors. The Companion Website is not included with the purchase of this product. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.

This textbook focuses on the members of the digital value chain of eBusiness and eCommerce and dedicates a separate chapter to each member part: eProducts & eServices, eProcurement, eMarketing, eContracting, eDistribution, ePayment, as well as eCustomer Relationship Management. In addition to business models and business webs, digital procurement and marketing processes are likewise addressed such as electronic negotiation processes, security questions with digital signatures, as well as electronic supplier relationship management and customer relationship management. The topics are described based on explicit procedures and descriptive examples of application. The gradual set-up of an electronic Webshop for DVD’s serves as a continuous case study. The book is directed towards students of economics at universities and technical colleges; it is also suitable for executives, project leaders, and company experts who deal with the digital value chain.