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Summary
Mastering e-Business presents an innovative, new teaching framework to help students gain a thorough understanding of the principles of this vital aspect of business and management.
Author Biography
Paul Grefen is a Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has a rich background in research in information systems and e-business, cooperating with industry and academia. He has published many international journal and conference papers and several books.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What exactly is e-business? | p. 2 |
| A brief history of e-business | p. 4 |
| e-Business, e-commerce and other terms | p. 6 |
| Business versus technology | p. 8 |
| Goal and structure of this book | p. 9 |
| Running cases | p. 10 |
| Chapter end | p. 12 |
| An e-business classification space | p. 14 |
| Introduction | p. 14 |
| Structure of the classification space | p. 15 |
| Parties in e-business | p. 16 |
| Objects of e-business | p. 22 |
| Time scopes of e-business | p. 25 |
| Running cases | p. 28 |
| Chapter end | p. 29 |
| The BOAT framework | p. 31 |
| Introduction | p. 31 |
| Aspects of e-business | p. 32 |
| Stack or wheel model? | p. 34 |
| BOAT and strategic alignment | p. 35 |
| Running cases | p. 37 |
| Chapter end | p. 38 |
| Business aspect | p. 40 |
| Introduction | p. 40 |
| Business drivers | p. 41 |
| Changing business chains | p. 45 |
| Business directions | p. 48 |
| Business structures | p. 50 |
| Business models | p. 55 |
| Relating B aspect elements | p. 61 |
| Running cases | p. 62 |
| Chapter end | p. 64 |
| Organization aspect | p. 67 |
| Introduction | p. 67 |
| e-Business inter-organization structures | p. 68 |
| e-Business intra-organization structures | p. 70 |
| e-Business functions | p. 74 |
| e-Business processes | p. 78 |
| Operations and change management | p. 86 |
| Mapping B elements to O elements | p. 90 |
| Running cases | p. 93 |
| Chapter end | p. 98 |
| Architecture aspect | p. 100 |
| Introduction | p. 100 |
| The need for architecture | p. 101 |
| A basis for e-business architecture | p. 102 |
| Market-level architectures | p. 107 |
| Party-level architectures | p. 110 |
| System-level architectures | p. 113 |
| Mapping O elements to A elements | p. 115 |
| Running cases | p. 117 |
| Chapter end | p. 122 |
| Technology aspect | p. 124 |
| Introduction | p. 124 |
| The bare basics: Internet and Web technology | p. 125 |
| Advanced infrastructure technology | p. 132 |
| Aspect-oriented technology | p. 138 |
| Function-oriented technology | p. 150 |
| Mapping A elements to T elements | p. 159 |
| Mapping T elements to B elements | p. 160 |
| Running cases | p. 160 |
| Chapter end | p. 162 |
| BOAT as an analysis instrument | p. 164 |
| Introduction | p. 164 |
| Classifying a scenario | p. 165 |
| Analyzing or designing a scenario | p. 165 |
| BOAT element dependency diagram | p. 166 |
| Analyzing e-business developments | p. 167 |
| Running cases | p. 168 |
| Chapter end | p. 170 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 172 |
| Introduction | p. 172 |
| Separation and integration | p. 172 |
| Dealing with change | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 175 |
| References | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 183 |
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