Until now, all it's taken to build a successful e-business is the right technology. An online storefront goes up and a company's market capitalization goes through the roof, despite low sales and no profits. But now the race to get online is over. As the new economy rapidly becomes the only economy, Internet companies must learn how to create sustainable value if they're going to survive. This book provides the solid business basics companies need to move from the old era of .com to the next era of .profit. 
Nick Earle, the driving force behind Hewlett-Packard's worldwide Internet strategy, and Peter Keen, a visionary in the world of business and technology, have been anticipating online trends and communicating them to managers for over twenty years. Here they team up to forecast the future of Internet commerce and to lay out the six key imperatives that will determine the difference between successful and unsuccessful e-business in the coming decade. Earle and Keen show managers how to perfect the logistics, cement the relationships, build the brands, transform the capital and cost structures, harmonize the sales channels, and provide the services that are crucial to delivering both value and profits on the Web. Using examples from HP and other top companies around the world, the authors go beyond Internet hype to lay out strategic action in the key areas of technology, finance, and marketing. In the process, they provide all the useful information, timely insights, and practical advice managers need to build business plans for the new economy that really work.

From .Com to .Profit: Inventing Business Models That Deliver Value and Profit

Business & Money

Earle, Nick

Keen, Peter G.W.

Economics

Jossey-Bass

Mesh Collaboration: Creating new business value in the network of everything. Mesh Collaboration, a new book by Andy Mulholland and Nick Earle, helps companies understand how to thrive and grow in a fast moving, ultracompetitive, globalized world by telling the story of Jane Moneymaker, the CEO of the fictitious Vorpal, Inc. Mesh Collaboration continues the story started in Mashup Corporations. In that book, Moneymaker and her team grappled with mashups and service-oriented architecture and the nature of Vorpal's relationships with innovators, customers, suppliers, and with the IT department. Mashups allowed a new form of business model, focused on selling customized products to niche markets and using the power of viral marketing. In Mesh Collaboration we pick up the story as Moneymaker and her team face the challenges of scaling the new business model in the multi-cultural globalized world. General sales and administrative costs are soaring and it is unclear why. Using the technique of explanatory fiction, Mesh Collaboration shows how Moneymaker merges the new world of Long Tail niche business models with the mass-market enterprise business model. Part 2 addresses the way that Web 2.0 collaborative techniques can be expanded beyond the role they initially played in creating niche markets. Part 3 shows how smart services can transform traditional industrial businesses by focusing on Power Plus, Vorpal¿s larger sister company. Power Plus expands beyond commodity products that compete only on price to a new model focusing on delivering business value by providing the whole solution through collaborative innovation. The last part of the book provides analysis of key questions that arise in each scenario.

Mesh Collaboration

Mulholland, Andy

Computers & Technology

Evolved Technologist Pr

This is a guide from e-strategists on how to make profit in the new world economy. The authors say we are in the midst of the first era of e-business, characterized by experimentation, vague or non-existent business models, and dubious value propositions. This era is driven by technology. The next era of e-business will be characterized by a focus on value creation built on business models that are sustainable and profitable. In this next era the key drivers will be: perfecting logistics; establishing long term customer relationships; harmonizing sales channels for customer benefits; building a power brand; transforming corporate capital and cost structure ;and ultimately becoming a value added intermediary.

From .Com to .Profit (Wiley Audio)

Personal Finance

Audio Scholar

Criticizes current e-business practices as unprofitable, predicting forthcoming trends in Internet technologies while describing six key factors for developing an e-business that will enable significant value and profit.

From .Com to .Profit: Inventing Business Models That Deliver Value and Profit (Wiley Audio)

Penton Overseas+inc

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