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Summary: Digital Capital...humbly titled...
Review: "Digital Capital; Harnessing the Power of Business Webs" effectively defines, describes and validates e-commerce strategy through the use of business webs. Before even cracking this book, I had worked for a leading e-commerce company for almost four years and was just shy of completing an e-commerce course in an MBA program. I was pleasantly surprised to gain as much as I did from reading this book. The authors make excellent use of various business models and case studies to illustrate the value added of an interactive business web economy. I recommend this book to anyone who is involved in e-commerce or would like to learn more about why this emerging structure is so coveted. In the past, I have been left almost angry after spending hours of my valuable time reading a book that claims to deliver wisdom regarding e-commerce strategy. This is the reason behind my subject line in which I state that the book is humbly titled. The book efficiently describes this era of change and its effect on various industries including the automotive and computer industries. Judging on the merit of the book alone, the authors either have first hand knowledge or have done extensive research before writing this book. It is well organized, elaborate and complete. You will learn from this book.
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Summary: If you haven't already read it, you might loosing out...
Review: "Digital Capital" introduces the importance of e-commerce, business web, business models, its key features, changes that presently occur in the global economy. If you wish to become or stay a successful solo trader, or as a small or medium firm, or a corporation, and become a market leader, this book is a must read, not just for employees but also for managers, executives, and CEO's who might learn few things and change their attitude towards employees and businesses. I gave 5 out of 5 stars as the book is well written, and the authors also referring not just to practical facts but also to academic and research journals.
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Summary: Digital Capital...humbly titled...
Review: "Digital Capital; Harnessing the Power of Business Webs" effectively defines, describes and validates e-commerce strategy through the use of business webs. Before even cracking this book, I had worked for a leading e-commerce company for almost four years and was just shy of completing an e-commerce course in an MBA program. I was pleasantly surprised to gain as much as I did from reading this book. The authors make excellent use of various business models and case studies to illustrate the value added of an interactive business web economy. I recommend this book to anyone who is involved in e-commerce or would like to learn more about why this emerging structure is so coveted. In the past, I have been left almost angry after spending hours of my valuable time reading a book that claims to deliver wisdom regarding e-commerce strategy. This is the reason behind my subject line in which I state that the book is humbly titled. The book efficiently describes this era of change and its effect on various industries including the automotive and computer industries. Judging on the merit of the book alone, the authors either have first hand knowledge or have done extensive research before writing this book. It is well organized, elaborate and complete. You will learn from this book.
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Summary: Mature Structured View of e-Micro Economics
Review: 'Digital Capital' offers startups, consultants, and educators a structured look at the micro-economics of b-webs (business webs utilizing Internet technologies).The well-written, referenced, and structured chapters span in 4 parts: ++ 1- Introduction- value introduction through business webs. ++ 2- New Models of Wealth Creation- agoras, aggregations, value chains, alliances, and distributive networks. ++ 3- The Human and Relationship Elements of Digital Capital- people, and marketing. ++ 4- Strategies for Business Webs- how to weave a b-web, and harvesting digital capital. Strengths include: the balanced dry (?unemotional) writing style; the excellent use of tables (perhaps best examples seen this year) and figures; the relative depth of the b-web framework and content (b-web strategy design, marketing, staffing etc..). Unfortunately, about 25% pagecount reduction is possible for the content; and there are several technical errors (e.g. EDI not started in 90s, and Fraunhofer Institute is not just an industrial electronics research company, to name two). Also, perhaps links with formal micro-economic modeling would further strengthen the b-web framework (to this reviewer, it felt a bit MBA-made-up speak, at times (!)). Overall, a useful mature look at the dynamic economics of b-webs in the global marketplace.
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Summary: Don Tapscott's Way... 'Clear Vision' & 'Great Thinking'
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Like his other books, this 'Digital Capital' will bring us to a new level of thinking about how Net-Economy will work and shape the world we've already known. Tapscott's clear vision about 'digital money' will surely give us a higher perspective about what works and what doesn't work in this internet 'boom and bust' era. One of the best Tapscott's book since 'Digital Economy'.....
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Summary: among the best of its ilk
Review: Among the books offering advice on how businesses can forge an online presence, this is one of the more thoughtful, hands-on tries. The authors base their advice on the research they did into what they call 'business webs' which consist of a network of producers, service providers, suppliers, infrastructure companies, and customers that are all networked together through use of various digital channels. The authors find that there are five types of business webs, give examples for each of these, and give readers enough information that they might be able to model their own online business strategies on them.
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Summary: Timely Vision
Review: Answers questions about how companies can transition from the old economy to the new economy as painlessly as possible. Head and shoulders above most other 'net' books. Written by folks who have been looking at the space for years...not months with new MBAs. More than a bedside book. Read it, distribute it to your execs & BoD, then discuss your future.
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Summary: one of the best books
Review: believe me, it is one of the best books in the recent times.but this is not for light reading. it analyzes the emerging trends in a professional manner
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Summary: Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Review: Digital Capital articulates the characteristics of web based business models and illustrates how the application of these business models can rapidly change the status quo. Ample examples and quotations from business web innovators show the practicality of the models while the authors' framework offers guidelines to explore and examine business web opportunities. I can now better run and build my company's digital future.
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Summary: Prospering from Electronically-Connected Business
Review: Digital Capital is one of the few business books that dare address the central issue for most companies today: How to establish competitively-advantaged business models for serving customers that capture the power of the Internet to work with others. Anyone who doesn't know what they want to do for an Internet-based business model or doesn't like the one they have will get great benefit from this book. Like Blown to Bits, Digital Capital looks squarely at the economic impact of the Internet on existing business models. But Digital Capital goes further in laying out the necessary steps to build on five business models that have been working that involve creating business networks that are Internet enabled (b-webs in the parlance of this book). You will instantly recognize the five business model types, because the authors provide lots of examples (at least some of which will be familiar to you) and lists of characteristics of each type. You will also know how to go from where you are to reaching one of these archetypes by the strategy directions the authors provide. The only drawback of this section is that the language gets a little b-schoolish (and full of very long words). The conceptual basis of the work is sound. The only two points that were not discussed were (1) how these models might evolve into more powerful models in the future, and (2) how they might merge with each other. Where the book is at its best is in helping you think through how to add other companies into a related web of interests to get more done -- thinking that goes well beyond the well-known outsourcing mindset. Good luck with improving your Internet-based business model! Keep in mind that technology will evolve rapidly and enable some new business models that can only be dreamed about today in just 3-5 years. So be sure to look at the irresistible forces of technology development in thinking ahead. The current crash of the dot coms is just the beginning of what will be a period of enormous innovation and progress.
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