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Summary: Syrupy E-Commerce Structure Overview
Review: Aimed at senior managers, 'e-Enterprise' offers an entertaining, opinionated and superficial review of business models, architectures and components supporting e-commerce.The anecdotal, sometimes attractively illustrated chapters span: ++ section 1: e-enterprise- recent history from brochureware onwards. ++ section 2: e-Application models (inter-organizational business processes, models, convergence of B-to-C and B-to-B); B-to-C e-Application models (e-tailing/ portals, auctions, consumer care, electronic bill payment, and critical success factors); B-to-B e-Application Models (marketplaces, procurement/resource management, value chain, CRM, critical success factors, e-Organization). ++ section 3: e-Enterprise Methodology and Architecture- Building e-Enterprises (transformation, methodology, ROI, asset repository, org models, real-time); e-Enterprise Architecture (business, technology, components). ++ section 4: Enabling Components- Business Components (security, user profiling, search, content management, payment, workflow, event, collaboration, reporting, data/message integration); Technology Components (technology components and standards). Strengths include: the structure and scope of content; sometimes good use of titles & bulleted lists (just read these & look at figures for quickest transfer of content!); and some good diagrams and tables. Negatively: the style is 'thick' with many nonsensical jargonistic error-ful sentences (!!); manufacturing and sector-application errors; technological errors and omissions; sweeping predictions without support or differentiation from other texts; relative lack of case study evidence; a limited US-bias; inconsistency in use of terms (Net, Internet, Web etc. etc.. for same & different things etc..); repetition and sometimes rambling text (perhaps a 35% reduction of words for same content, and better use of sidebars would improve); and sometimes patronizing tone. Some alternative texts include: the similar quality inspiring 'Futurize Your Enterprise' by Siegel; the similar quality draft 'Exploring E-commerce' by Fellenstein/Wood; and May's superior 'Business of E-Commerce' which covers very similar content in a more rigorous manner (to this reviewer). Sadly, the content and presentation is relatively strong, let down by too much repetition, error, and 'jargonism' without support, and generalizations, to be considered worthwhile. To this reviewer, 'e-Enterprise' just read like a summary of parts of an MBA - strategy, e-commerce, change management, introductory technology etc..- without evidence of a deeper understanding of global business & technology issues. As such a good starting point, which I wouldn't trust to base a corporate transformation/ e-business upon.
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Summary: Syrupy E-Commerce Structure Overview
Review: Aimed at senior managers, `e-Enterprise' offers an entertaining, opinionated and superficial review of business models, architectures and components supporting e-commerce. The anecdotal, sometimes attractively illustrated chapters span: ++ section 1: e-enterprise- recent history from brochureware onwards. ++ section 2: e-Application models (inter-organizational business processes, models, convergence of B-to-C and B-to-B); B-to-C e-Application models (e-tailing/ portals, auctions, consumer care, electronic bill payment, and critical success factors); B-to-B e-Application Models (marketplaces, procurement/resource management, value chain, CRM, critical success factors, e-Organization). ++ section 3: e-Enterprise Methodology and Architecture- Building e-Enterprises (transformation, methodology, ROI, asset repository, org models, real-time); e-Enterprise Architecture (business, technology, components). ++ section 4: Enabling Components- Business Components (security, user profiling, search, content management, payment, workflow, event, collaboration, reporting, data/message integration); Technology Components (technology components and standards). Strengths include: the structure and scope of content; sometimes good use of titles & bulleted lists (just read these & look at figures for quickest transfer of content!); and some good diagrams and tables. Negatively: the style is `thick' with many nonsensical jargonistic error-ful sentences (!!); manufacturing and sector-application errors; technological errors and omissions; sweeping predictions without support or differentiation from other texts; relative lack of case study evidence; a limited US-bias; inconsistency in use of terms (Net, Internet, Web etc. etc.. for same & different things etc..); repetition and sometimes rambling text (perhaps a 35% reduction of words for same content, and better use of sidebars would improve); and sometimes patronizing tone. Some alternative texts include: the similar quality inspiring `Futurize Your Enterprise' by Siegel; the similar quality draft `Exploring E-commerce' by Fellenstein/Wood; and May's superior `Business of E-Commerce' which covers very similar content in a more rigorous manner (to this reviewer). Sadly, the content and presentation is relatively strong, let down by too much repetition, error, and `jargonism' without support, and generalizations, to be considered worthwhile. To this reviewer, `e-Enterprise' just read like a summary of parts of an MBA - strategy, e-commerce, change management, introductory technology etc..- without evidence of a deeper understanding of global business & technology issues. As such a good starting point, which I wouldn't trust to base a corporate transformation/ e-business upon.
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Summary: Excellent Picture of the new industry
Review: All you need to know about e-Economy. First, it explains the paradigm of this type of business, and how organizations need to morph themselves for it. It gives an excellent view of the necessary packages and categories of technologies to support the developments in this field. A must-read to understand the e-Buzzwords and gain a standard vocabulary!
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Summary: Excellent Picture of the new industry
Review: All you need to know about e-Economy. First, it explains the paradigm of this type of business, and how organizations need to morph themselves for it. It gives an excellent view of the necessary packages and categories of technologies to support the developments in this field. A must-read to understand the e-Buzzwords and gain a standard vocabulary!
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Summary: Hogwarts for the enterprise
Review: As great as the Harry Potter books are, you wouldn't base a business on the theory of Hogwarts. This book is a silly e-HogWarts-like fantasy that leads one to believe software is a land of wishin' and hopin' and where simple minded split em up into lil' boxes mentality makes big problems easy. Even in today's world of web services and OOD, serious software is hard work, requires risk, investment and skilled talent in many facets from business to technology. This author over simplifies to the point of e-absurdity. You just plug a hip-bone into the thigh-bone, or is it authentication + framework + function1 + function2 yields application. What garbage, if software were that easy, no more books would be needed. Once I realised the silliness, (it takes about 10 minutes to read the whole book) I scanned the author's background: A failed e-company (ec cube) to his credit and it appears to me he is just about done with his latest debacle, something called enamics, based on yet another apparently mindless book. Please do yourself a favor, avoid this book, this author, and, why, oh, why, did Cambridge publish this? A great conspiracy must be behind this...
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Summary: E-Enterprise: ¿Well worth your time!
Review: Being an MBA/MSE student, I primarily picked this book to supplement concepts learned in my E-commerce class. My hope was to gain a more detailed insight into e-commerce strategy. I was not disappointed. This book is jam packed with valuable models, insight and very useful advice. Hoque provides a structured, informative outline of fundamental B2B and B2C business concepts that you need to consider and understand in order to accomplish a successful transition to clicks-and-mortar. He presents a well-defined blueprint from "Brochureware" all the way to E-enterprise and explains the benefits of integrating the extended value chain model into your business model. The book is easy to read and Hoque makes excellent use of relevant examples from companies such as GE, Ariba and Cisco to name a few. He makes good use of tables and figures, although I do feel they could have been made more comprehensive in certain involved chapters. E-Enterprise has the advantage of being a recent publication and most of the information presented in the book is still very applicable, unlike other books that are barely a year old and are close to being obsolete. This book is an excellent resource for all-level management, entrepreneurs and generally all who are interested in the dynamics of a true, sustainable strategy for transformation and "re-transformation". Read it. It's well worth your time!
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Summary: Skip this simplistic book
Review: I picked up this book to read on an airplane. The book should help brand managers understand technology better.
I'm not a techie. But I do understand the basics of IT. I found the book so simple that its ridiculous. The cover and intro seemed appealing. Reading more I find the book empty. This is mostly a book of e-this and e-that and nothing tied together.
The value add is zero. The author makes his money in royalties. The reader gets nothing but rambling nonsense. So many books in this pace, why did I stumble on this one? Dont make the same mistake.
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Summary: Don't Bother - No Value Added
Review: I read two-third of the book and I feel less intelligent for it. Mr. Hoque used the letter "e" in front of every big word and never illustrated how "e" or internet would actually change the business environment. The Internet allows information to flow to almost anyone, and in a business environment, this can add tremendous value, yet, Mr. Hoque never explained or showed how this would occur. Also, his analysis on the supplier value chain was so superficial, that no value could be gained from reading that section.
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Summary: Don't Bother - No Value Added
Review: I read two-third of the book and I feel less intelligent for it. Mr. Hoque used the letter "e" in front of every big word and never illustrated how "e" or internet would actually change the business environment. The Internet allows information to flow to almost anyone, and in a business environment, this can add tremendous value, yet, Mr. Hoque never explained or showed how this would occur. Also, his analysis on the supplier value chain was so superficial, that no value could be gained from reading that section.
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Summary: Don't Bother - No Value Added
Review: I read two-third of the book and I feel less intelligent for it. Mr. Hoque used the letter "e" in front of every big word and never illustrated how "e" or internet would actually change the business environment. The Internet allows information to flow to almost anyone, and in a business environment, this can add tremendous value, yet, Mr. Hoque never explained or showed how this would occur. Also, his analysis on the supplier value chain was so superficial, that no value could be gained from reading that section.
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