The Blueprint for Business Objects provides a clear and concise guide to making informed decisions about emerging object technology and to mastering the skills you need to make effective use of the technology in business. Driven by rapidly developing technology and the globalization of markets and competition, companies are using information technology to make radical changes in the way they organize work and conduct business. As companies redesign themselves, you'll need additional knowledge and skills to master business re-engineering and the advanced information systems that make re-engineering possible. Based on the workplace experiences of several major corporations, this book presents a framework designed for business and information systems professionals meeting this challenge. It provides the reader with a road map, starting at the level of initial concepts and moving up to the mastery level. It also includes information on how to select and find additional learning resources.

The Blueprint for Business Objects (SIGS: Managing Object Technology, Series Number 6)

Computers & Technology

Fingar, Peter

Programming

SIGS

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN REPLACED BY "Master your untamed business processes".

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Business & Money

Sapir, Jonathan

Management & Leadership

SilverTree Publishing

A holistic view of technology and business comments on the concepts, jargon, strategies, scalability, interoperability, adapability, and integration of applications, markets, and customer service.

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Computing Illustrated: A Short Course and Desk Reference for Professionals in Government and Business

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Thomas Edison said it famously, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” This hard-hitting book is all about that 99%--executing on innovation in the 21st Century world of exponential and unpredictable change. The book, in an innovative multimedia format, provides an agenda for enabling innovation in your organization, and lays out a strategy framework for execution by harnessing the revolutionary business platform, the Cloud. Creativity and great ideas will always be important--but execution is all when it comes to business innovation. Thus, the book is an impassioned plea to reinvent innovation as we know it-- to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about business innovation and innovate innovation itself. The book provides encyclopedic coverage of the monumental subject of business innovation, including an innovation architecture and an actionable innovation agenda. However, this book is an optional read for incumbent executives! And so is business survival in

Business Innovation in the Cloud: Executing on Innovation With Cloud Computing

Stikeleather, Jim

Seasoned digital commerce consultants Fingar and Aronica are joined by some others in the field to offer advice about how electronic technologies can be incorporated into business and commerce. Opening chapters provide an overview analysis of Internet business models, technologies, and strategies. These are followed by six chapters on a variety of digital commerce issues. Coverage includes electronic marketplaces, peer-to-peer commerce, e-hubs, B2B exchanges, auctions, wireless applications, m-commerce, intelligent agent technology, B2B consortia, collaborative commerce, digital strategies, essential technologies and Web services. This book is supported by a companion web site. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New Economy : Business Models, Technologies and Strategies for the 21st Century

Maizlish, Bryan

Aronica, Ronald

Economics

According to the authors, every significant breakthrough in business technology has been underpinned by mathematics. They explain how Pi-calculus provides the theoretical computer science foundation for a new type of business software that allows business people, not just technicians, to design, implement, and adapt business processes. Smith has 24 years of experiences in the IT industry; Fingar is affiliated with a digital strategy firm. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Business Process Management: The Third Wave

Smith, Howard

This book heralds a breakthrough that redefines competitive advantage for the next fifty years.  Don't bridge the business-IT divide: Obliterate it! The book is the first authoritative analysis of how third-wave business process management (BPM) changes everything in business and what it portends. While the vision of process management is not new, existing theories and systems have not been able to cope with the reality of business processes --until now. This book describes a radical, simplifying shift in process thinking and technology that utterly transforms today's information systems and reduces the lag between management intent and execution.  A process-managed enterprise makes agile course corrections, embeds Six Sigma quality and reduces cumulative costs across the value chain. It pursues strategic initiatives with confidence, including mergers, consolidation, alliances, acquisitions, outsourcing and global expansion. Process management is the only way to achieve these objectives with transparency, management control and accountability. The process-managed enterprise grasps control of business processes and communicates with a universal process language that enables partners to execute on shared vision --to understand each other's operations in detail, jointly design processes and manage the entire lifecycle of their business improvement initiatives.  Process management is not another form of automation, a new killer-app or a fashionable new management theory. With the third-wave BPM breakthrough and its solid mathematical underpinnings, business processes can now be unhindered by the constraints of existing IT systems. Short on stories and long on insight and practical information, this book will help your business become the company of the future, the real-time enterprise, the fully digitized corporation --the process-managed enterprise. The book also offers continually updated information and a dialog with the authors at its Web site.

A controversial article by Nicholas Carr, published in the May 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review , declared that information technology (IT) has matured to the point where it no longer gives companies competitive advantage. This response to Carr's article argues that the strategic importance of IT is actually increasing. Smith and Fingar are the authors of a previous book on the business process revolution. There is no subject index. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

It Doesn't Matter--Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard Business Review

CARR NICHOLAS G.

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The Blueprint for Business Objects (SIGS: Managing Object Technology, Series Number 6)

Force.com for Everyone: How to power your Customer Company with Smart Process Applications

Enterprise E-Commerce

Computing Illustrated: A Short Course and Desk Reference for Professionals in Government and Business

Computing illustrated: A short course and desk reference for professionals in government and business

Business Innovation in the Cloud: Executing on Innovation With Cloud Computing

The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New Economy : Business Models, Technologies and Strategies for the 21st Century

Business Process Management: The Third Wave

Business Process Management: The Third Wave

It Doesn't Matter--Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard Business Review