The Network Experience

A group of scholars and business professionals recently met to discuss how companies could get smart business results by using network technologies. This book, full of new theoretical foundations and practical insights, is the result of the conference.

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or 'smart' results. These Smart Business Networks (SBNs) enable individual organizations to compete more effectively and to respond better to a changing world. This idea attracted a diverse group of academic scholars and business professionals to Beijing from May 19-23, 2008, hosted by Tsinghua University. They discovered new ways to manage network resources, operate business processes across a network, create a business operations platform, understand the importance of network position and the smart mastering of technology. Effective managers, they concluded, must have a firm understanding of these fundamental network concepts in order to orchestrate the networks of the future. This book presents the results of an intense and energizing event which resulted in new theoretical foundations and practical insights.

A managerial perspective on what managers must do to generate smart business results from using networking technologies; and the resultant academic research challenges Understanding of business networks / latest update on state-of-the-art/ guidelines/ contact names

Inhalt
Setting the Scene.- The Network Experience New Value from Smart Business Networks.- The Network Factor How to Remain Competitive.- Process Management in Business Networks.- Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities.- The Actors.- Network Essentials.- Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment.- Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks Let's Create Life from Inert Information.- Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market.- Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise.- Networks in Action.- Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks.- Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network.- Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics.- Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry.- Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries.- Network Enablers.- Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network.- Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's.- The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents.- The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility.- Network Orchestration.- Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows.- Orchestrating Smart Business Networks.- Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks.- Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks.