"James Moore has written a provocative and timely book on the Internet and its implications for the core values of our society. While the Internet has promised to deliver increased value in time, truth, trust, and privacy, at the same time it potentially invades each of these core values. I find myself being challenged by the points that Moore makes on how the Internet affects my life– – giving me more time but at the same time intruding on my time; wanting to trust but finding it difficult to trust; fearing for intrusions on my privacy; seeking the greater truths, but finding truth harder to attain. The Internet Weather is both thought-provoking and easy to read. I highly recommend it to managers of all levels, for consideration of the sovereignty of employees; to Internet users, for consideration of privacy and the idea of buying privacy; and to everyone in this evolving society, for how new technologies may affect them and their value systems. " –– James E. Brumm Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mitsubishi International Corporation
"Change is constant, and managing change has always been very challenging. Living and working in Silicon Valley, I constantly ponder the impact of the Internet. Mr. Moore provides a compass in this ever-changing internet weather, an unusual and insightful perspective on the reasons behind recent technological developments, and a set of principles for the future. The principles of time, truth, trust, and privacy, as Mr. Moore brilliantly articulates here, are the true compass for weathering the storms in technology development, and in business in general. I loved this book, and I would recommend it not only to those of us in technology, but also to anyone concerned about the impact of technology on the way we think and the way we interact with each other." –– Jack Jia Senior Vice President of Engineering Interwoven
Publisher:
Wiley
Author:
James W. Moore
Release Date: 2002-02-05
ISBN/EAN:
Get an inside look at how successful businesses build their e-business architectures. In this book, four IBM e-business experts capture years of experience into easy-to-follow guidelines. Deliberately focusing on Business patterns, Integration patterns, and Application patterns, the authors share with you proven architectural patterns that can help get you up and running quickly, while at the same time reducing your risks. Because today's economy demands that e-business initiatives emphasize profitability and return on investment, the authors also offer guidance on methods to minimize cost, yet ensure quality. Many e-business applications and initiatives fail because of the lack of a comprehensive look at e-business architectures. For example, the recent crashes of many e-business applications costing millions of dollars could have been avoided if all aspects of operational issues had been addressed properly. This book offers a blueprint for avoiding such mistakes and for achieving success in the new digital economy. It also includes case studies, examples, references, and pointers to other materials at the IBM Web site www.ibm.com/framework/patterns.
Publisher:
Mc Press
Authors:
Srinivas Koushik, Guru Vasudeva, George Galambos, Jonathan Adams
Release Date: 2001-10
ISBN/EAN: 1931182027 / 9781931182027
"Pushing the Digital Frontier" contains some of the most innovative, forward-thinking analyses available of the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution on traditional businesses. Each chapter provides cutting-edge research and guidance on specific topics, including customer service, technology, business processes, performance measurement and more. The chapters are written by some of the heavy hitters of the academic and corporate worlds and the book has a strong hands-on management focus. "Pushing the Digital Frontier" is not just another "how to win on the Web" book, or a book that merely describes the effect of the digital revolution. Instead, it blends the two - supplying a big-think book about the Internet revolution's sweeping changes with practical applications on how to revamp organizational processes and individual skills to stay competitive. The book includes many examples of companies undergoing the transformation to e-business management.
Hands-on guide for business, project and test managers and test practitioners presenting an effective approach for using risk to construct test strategies for e-business systems. Shows how to select test techniques to address business risks and integrate them into a coherent test process.
Publisher:
Artech House Publishers
Authors:
Paul Gerrard, Neil Thompson
Release Date: 2002-08-15
ISBN/EAN: 1580533140 / 9781580533140
Enter Smart Business Solutions for E-Commerce, the book that will show you, the e-commerce manager or entrepreneur, where to start, which end is up, and which tools and technologies can help you. Whether your e-commerce endeavor is consumer-oriented or business-to-business, this book covers what you really need to know to get into the e-commerce game. It offers you valuable information about everything from how to develop on line strategies to how to organize content and oversee a transaction system. It will show you what to consider in building a site, as well as how to maintain freshness and quality, mind legal matters, promote the site, a nd decide whether to house it on your own server or have it hosted elsewhe re. Along the way, this book highlights the products and services that make building and maintaining an e-commerce site an easily manageable task.
Publisher:
Author:
Brenda Kienan
Release Date: 2000-02-23
ISBN/EAN:
E-business occurs when a company has established critical business procedures and activities to support e-commerce transactions. Using this definition, e-commerce is part of e-business--a company needs e-commerce to implement e-business. Utilizing e-commerce, however, does not mean that a company has transformed into an e-business. E-business is implemented only when a company changes its internal procedures to take advantage of the e-commerce technologies. Interest in the evolution ("e-volution") of e-commerce into e-business is a growth field. With the early November announcement that GM and Ford were forming online marketplaces for their suppliers, they placed themselves at the center of new e-business ecosystems that will transform their entire way of doing business. Many firms are increasingly discovering opportunities to move away from simply selling products on the Internet to being able to reinvent their conventional supply chains (as in the auto makers' case) and to being able to offer custom-built products (as Dell Computers does now).
Key Features * Implement e-business in 13 specific proven actions * Implement e-business with reduced risk to your business * Coordinate e-business implementation with current business * Use e-business as a means to renew and improve your current business * Motivate employees to participate in e-business * Achieve more flexible business processes * Deal with technical, vendor, process, and other e-business issues Answers Questions Such as: * How do you implement e-business without tearing up your company? * How do you define your new e-business processes and synchronize them with your current business? * How and with what do you manage outsourcing in e-business? * How do you measure your e-business implementation and results? * How do you change your organization to be a spearhead for e-business? * What is the best way to develop your e-business implementation strategy? * How do you quickly gather data on the competition and your current business? * How do you design new business activities that modify your current processes and define e-business?
Publisher:
Academic Press
Authors:
Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea
Release Date: 2000-09
ISBN/EAN: 0124499775 / 9780124499775
When you need on-the-spot answers to your online investment questions, look no further than Teach Yourself Investing Online. Presented with the clarity and functionality that make all Teach Yourself guides so popular, this book arms you with the tools necessary to make online investing a rewarding and satisfying experience.
Whether you've never used the Internet to make a financial decision or you're on your way to being an active day trader, Teach Yourself Investing Online helps you find the information you need to make wise decisions. Discover online investing by exploring financial Web sites, creating an investment plan, and choosing a broker. The book preps you on how to investigate your options before slapping down your money as well as how to track performance of potential or actual investments. When you're ready, more advanced topics cover a vide variety of online features including bonds, options, futures, mutual funds, IPOs, day trading, and messages boards.
At one time or another, everyone is a newcomer to the world of personal investing. Teach Yourself Investing Online, by financial journalists Thomas S. Gray and Claire Mencke, is an easy-to-follow primer for those now ready to boot up their speculative bags of tricks in cyberspace. Covering both basic Web skills and hints for employing them at popular financial sites, it presents the fundamentals of organizing, researching, planning, and trading in a way that even absolute beginners can readily grasp and immediately initiate. The approach here is to present highly visual two-page spreads devoted to "Finding the Investment Style That Fits," "Opening an Online Account," "Calling Up Company Reports," "Tracking Upgrades and Downgrades," and dozens of similar topics. Each includes elementary instruction with pointers to one or more Web sites that perform the function or explain it in greater depth, a series of screen shots from those sites illustrating this narrative, and a sidebar with related information. Anyone at least moderately familiar with investment practices and principles may discover little new here, but those looking to get started will find plenty of helpful direction and advice. --Howard Rothman
Publisher:
Wiley
Authors:
Thomas S. Gray, Claire Mencke
Release Date: 2000-01-10
ISBN/EAN: 0764533932 / 9780764533938
Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for controlling concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed transactions.
The authors emphasize formal models that are easily applied across fields, that promise to remain valid as current technologies evolve, and that lend themselves to generalization and extension in the development of new classes of network-centric, functionally rich applications. This book's purpose and achievement is the presentation of the foundations of transactional systems as well as the practical aspects of the field what will help you meet today's challenges.
* Provides the most advanced coverage of the topic available anywhere--along with the database background required for you to make full use of this material. * Explores transaction processing both generically as a broadly applicable set of information technology practices and specifically as a group of techniques for meeting the goals of your enterprise. * Contains information essential to developers of Web-based e-Commerce functionality--and a wide range of more "traditional" applications. * Details the algorithms underlying core transaction processing functionality.
Publisher:
Morgan Kaufmann
Authors:
Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen
Release Date: 2001-05-24
ISBN/EAN: 1558605088 / 9781558605084
Every day, print and online trade magazines and news sources tout developments in online advertising, branding, and marketing. Seismic shifts in the industry--like major advertisers setting up shop in Second Life and other alternate realities--have forced marketers and advertisers, ready or not, to employ new advertising models. But the potholes for advertisers using Web 2.0 are many, and missteps by companies that don't understand the new rules of the game guarantee lost time and money ill spent. Advertising 2.0 ensures that readers understand the advertising options possible in the Web 2.0 environment, provides examples of companies using these options, and offers guidelines for their application. Advertising 2.0 goes way beyond running banner ads on Web sites and explores the rapidly burgeoning world of social media marketing. Among other things, expert Tracy L. Tuten covers viral marketing, doing online research, advertising within online games, and leveraging online opinions to increase sales or grow a brand. She also describes--way out on the leading edge and sure to turn conventional advertising on its head--how smart marketers let consumers generate ad content for products and brands. While the trade press frequently publishes news of companies using innovative communications techniques, there are hardly any books telling people how to take the plunge into the newest forms of advertising. Advertising 2.0 presents the current state of online advertising, and best practices for using techniques like consumer-generated advertising, social networking, online product reviews, viral video, Second Life, alternate reality games, and more. It also includes case studies and examples of successes and mistakes. Companies and brands featured include Nine Inch Nails, Audi, 42 Entertainment, MySpace, YouTube, Dogster, Vodaphone, Leo Burnett, and others. Best, each method described includes guidelines for getting the most out of the technique, thereby letting advertisers cut through the clutter to touch the hearts of customers worldwide.
Here's the book that is helping to unleash a 21st-century indie movement of writers and readers, by Stephen Windwalker, the number-one selling author in the Amazon Kindle bookstore - Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex: How Authors and Publishers Are Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies to Unleash an Indie Movement of Readers and Writers. Elegantly weaving polemic and primer, the #1 bestselling author in the Amazon Kindle store locates the nexus of culture and commerce and illuminates the failure of major publishers to serve either readers or authors, issues a compelling call for change, and guides authors and independent publishers through the steps that will allow them to succeed, and to connect with discerning readers, in the fast-changing publishing world made possible by new technologies such as the Amazon Kindle and CreateSpace.
