E-business best practices

Times are rapidly changing. In today's fast-paced market, if you're not an e-business, you'll soon be out of business. That's why it's imperative for your company to quickly make this transformation. This indispensable resource offers you everything you need to know in the field so you can achieve outstanding results. Written by an expert technology consultant with over twenty years' experience, this book will help you evaluate the most recent technologies and develop winning e-business strategies. Stewart McKie provides you with a comprehensive look at best practices in e-business technology from top companies all around the world. You'll learn about the e-business issues you'll face today and the ones you'll need to deal with tomorrow, and discover how to apply these techniques to give your company the competitive edge now.
"E-business is a confusing, rapidly changing domain that few business managers can hope to master. E-Business Best Practices: Leveraging Technology for Business Advantage brings some clarity to this confusion, covering the essential topics in a readable way and providing managers with the context and action tips to think through their own best practice initiatives in their own organizations."–Torben Wind, Vice President, New Business, Navision Software .
"The ideas presented in E-Business Best Practices: Leveraging Technology for Business Advantage are clear, compelling, and easy to grasp–yet comprehensive. The book covers a broad range of topics including extending ERP, CRM principles, e-procurement, XML, and software as a service! It is an easy-to-follow read, with excellent summaries of best practices that are both educational and very applicable to real world business usage. Whether you are a recent business graduate or a seasoned executive, this book is worth reading ... and keeping at hand as a reference guide."–Jim O'Farrell, Executive Vice President, Captura Software, Inc.

Contents

• E-Business Landscape
• E-Business Management
• Monitor to Manage: Enterprise Positioning System
• Collaborate to Compete
• Customer Relationship Management
• E-Procurement
• Knowledge Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Software as Service
• XML Everywhere
• Hackett Benchmarking Solutions on Best Practices
• Selected Readings
• Glossary