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 t
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Peter H.M. Vervest • Diederik W. van Liere Li Zheng
The Network Experience New Value from Smart Business Networks
Prof. Dr. Peter H.M. Vervest Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University Rotterdam Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3000 DR Rotterdam T9-03 The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Diederik W. van Liere Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University Rotterdam Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3000 DR Rotterdam T9-14 The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Li Zheng Tsinghua University Dept. of Industrial Engineering 100084 Beijing China e-mail: [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-540-85580-4 e-ISBN: 978-3-540-85582-8 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933366 © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMX Design GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper 987654321 springer.com
Preface: The Process Challenge To lead in this business environment is to embrace change. The modern firm must be highly flexible and able to change its business strategy very quickly. Traditionally it has taken enterprises up to 2 years to change their strategy, while the human structural organization of the enterprise traditionally changes every 3 to 6 months. But now enterprises must be able to change faster to meet this required speed of strategic and organizational change. However, the back-end information and communications systems that are needed to facilitate and enable such change are not readily available to the business. Underlying enterprise legacy software has proved to be difficult to integrate. It is a nightmare to change the infrastructure built on such complex integrations. Traditionally it has taken between 6 and 10 years to modernize such infrastructure. To resolve this gap between lagging infrastructure and the required rapid strategic change, as well as to speed the time for business to take action on this strategy, a business process layer is required between the current crop of planning tools used by the business and their existing related back-end communications systems. At Cordys we call this business process layer the Cordys Business Operations Platform, a platform that facilitates instant deployment of strategic business ch
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