The network experience : new value from smart business networks

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.

• Preface: The Process Challenge p. v Jan Baan
• Preface: The Business Challenge p. vii Theo Bouts
• Preface: The Academic Challenge p. ix George Yip
• Setting the Scene p. 1
• 1 The Network Experience - New Value from Smart Business Networks p. 3 Peter H. M. Vervest and Li Zheng
• 2 The Network Factor - How to Remain Competitive p. 15 Peter H. M. Vervest and Diederik W. van Liere and Al Dunn
• 3 Process Management in Business Networks p. 37 Jon Pyke
• 4 Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities p. 49 Steven L. Goldman and Roger N. Nagel and Brian D. Davison and Patrick D. Schmid
• 5 The Actors p. 57
• Network Essentials p. 65
• 6 Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment p. 69 Kul Bhushan C. Saxena
• 7 Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks - Let's Create 'Life' from Inert Information p. 83 David A. Bray and Benn R. Konsynski
• 8 Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market p. 99 Duncan R. Shaw and Christopher P. Holland
• 9 Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise p. 119 Kelly Lyman and Nathan Caswell and Alain Biem
• Networks in Action p. 137
• 10 Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks p. 141 Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp and Alessandro Cento
• 11 Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network p. 165 Peter J. van Baalen and Paul C. van Fenema
• 12 Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics Barbara Krug and Hans Hendrischke
• Review of "Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics" p. 179 Jens Ove Riis
• 13 Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry p. 193 Mark Greeven and Zhao Xiaodong
• 14 Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries p. 211 Johannes Meuer
• Network Enablers p. 229
• 15 Flexible Decision Support in a Dynamic Business Network John Collins and Wolfgang Ketter and Maria Gini
• Review of "Flexible Decision Support in a Dynamic Business Network" p. 233 Kul Bhushan C. Saxena
• 16 Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's p. 249 Jan Stentoft Arlbjorn and Torben Damgaard and Anders Haug
• 17 The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents p. 267 Otto R. Koppius and Arnoud J. van de Laak
• 18 The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility p. 285 Marcel van Oosterhout and Ellen Koenen and Eric van Heck
• Network Orchestration p. 301
• 19 Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows Duncan R. Shaw
• Review of "Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows" p. 305 Otto R. Koppius
• 20 Orchestrating Smart Business Networks p. 327 Xavier Busquets
• 21 Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks p. 337 Amit Basu and Steve Muylle
• 22 Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks p. 347 Jens Ove Riis
• Index p. 363