Smart Business Networks
Edited by <link people peter-vervest>Peter Vervest, <link people eric-van-heck>Eric van Heck, Ken Preiss and Louis-François Pau.
Abstract
Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people and organizations, bound together in a dynamic and unpredictable way, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The question is: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart', that is, just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms. Business processes would become portable: The end-to-end management of processes running across many different organizations in many different forms would become possible. This book presents you the outcomes of an energizing and new direction in management science.
Table of contents
Preface V
Introduction
1 Welcome to Smart Business Networks
2 The Actors
3 The Emergence of Smart Business Networks
4 Challenges of Smart Business Networks – Five Perspectives
5 The Cordys Panel – Science Meets Business
5.1 Surf’s UpAre You Ready for the Next Big Technology Wave?
5.2 Composite Applications and the Kaleidoscope Concept
5.3 Panel Discussion
Section 1: Outcome of Smart Business Networks
6 Spontaneous Collaborative Networks
7 Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network?
8 Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks
9 Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business
Networking
10 Unlocking Smart Business Networks
11 Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains
Section 2: Execution of Smart Business Networks
12 Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network
13 Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade
14 Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology
15 Building Networks In-Sync
16 “Off the Shelf” Smart Business Networks
17 Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks
Section 3: Governance of Smart Business Networks
18 Embedded Coordination in a Business Network
19 Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks
20 The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market
21 Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management
Section 4: Design of Smart Business Networks
22 Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks
23 How Much Business Modularity?
24 The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks
25 Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management
26 What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments?
27 Smart ICT Support for Business Networks
28 Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking
29 Public Administration Networked with Business: Towards Architectures for Interoperable and
Retrievable Law
List of Participants and Authors
This book has been translated into Chinese.
