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Summary: Understanding How To Create Your Own E-Vision?
Review: A lot of people have have made negative comments about this book because it does not give new ideas. This book is not going to provide you with any technical solutions to develope your e-business but it was also not meant to do that. It gives the non-experiened e-businessperson the rules and how to formulate your own vision to how your company should function. It also explains what has changed in business cycle due to the e-commerce factor. I found it was explained very clearly for anybody to understand. The target audience for this book is somebody who is new to e-commerce.
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Summary: Useful and Practical
Review: After reading this book, i learn that we can't escape change. Therefore, we should teach customers how to adapt, see chaos as opportunity, change as a constant, be courage & innovative as well as enhance customer interaction. To be first mover, we should think differently in order to rewrite new rules of the game. This book tells much useful information abomut the business world and it is worth to read.
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Summary: 130 pages for what?
Review: I bought the book on the basis of two criterion: the authors are managers or former managers of KPMG and customer reviews were rather good. Well, these 2 criterion do not seem to be entirely reliable! The book is very short, printed with big fonts like a book for children, you read it in 1 hour and you wonder: what have I found there that I have not read many times before in, for instance, Business Week? Well, the answer is: nothing.You get all the clichés of e-business or the synthesis of other writers' work without any original ideas. The book is full of "You need to be cutting edge to succeed" (p.87) or "You can't escape change" (p.42)... No, really?! The chapter 7 for intance raises an interesting question: "Do It In-House or Spin It Off?". The authors say: Clayton Christensen gave the answer in its best-seller "The Innovator's Dilemma"... And the 10 pages of the chapter are indeed a comment of Christensen. Hello! Has KPMG really nothing to say on this important topic?! Even the examples that are given are so broad in their purpose that you cannot do anything with them. I think that I have never read any book on e-business that is, I must say, so thin in terms of content. I hope that KPMG has something better to offer to their customers!
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Summary: Book Still Holds true after the Dot.com bust
Review: It is amazing how this book still holds value after the techno bust of last two years. There are several books on ebusiness that tried to teach corporate customers "How not to do business in digital economy and how all old things are dead". This book took a pragmatic approach and the author was bold enough to have a strong opinion in the best times. Well, folks if you are looking valuable infromation of how the old economy business should have change dand still need to transform itself to cut costs and optimize ROI, there are some great insights in this book. Great job on the part of the author to capture something that holds true even in these times.
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Summary: Book Still Holds true after the Dot.com bust
Review: It is amazing how this book still holds value after the techno bust of last two years. There are several books on ebusiness that tried to teach corporate customers "How not to do business in digital economy and how all old things are dead". This book took a pragmatic approach and the author was bold enough to have a strong opinion in the best times. Well, folks if you are looking valuable infromation of how the old economy business should have change dand still need to transform itself to cut costs and optimize ROI, there are some great insights in this book. Great job on the part of the author to capture something that holds true even in these times.
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Summary: Drive By Transformation
Review: This book is well written, and I think it succeeds in providing an entertaining strategic view of e-Business success factors. The following chapter descriptions may help the reader decide to pick it off the shelf.Chapter 1 Who's Winning at e-Business? -- an overview of successes (CISCO and Intel) and non-successes (IBM and Levi Strauss) at making the jump to successful e-business selling over the Internet. Chapter 2 The Vision Thing -- the core of the book's approach, which emphasizes that successful e-business transformation begins with generating a vision of what the expected e-business will become as an Internet presence. This e-Vision generation process must be the heart of any approach to starting an e-business effort. Chapter 3 Transformation -- detail about how companies must commit to transformation of their business model in order to succeed at e-business. This applies mainly to bricks-and-mortar companies that have not made the e-business leap. Chapter 4 First-Over Advantages and New Business Models -- describes how good business models enable first-to-market companies to establish huge Internet presence in spite of lack of profitability or bricks-and-mortar tangibility. Chapter 5 The B2B Challenges -- details the success of CISCO and Intel into completely transforming their business-to-business relationships into Internet e-businesses. Chapter 6 The B2C Challenges -- details the experiences and difficulties of dot-com companies in selling to customers directly over the Web, and in establishing themselves as Web presences. Chapter 7 Do It In-house or Spin It Off -- looks at the experience of established companies that created in-house Internet departments and then had to decide whether to keep or spin off the successful efforts. Explores the idea of "disruptive technology" that clashes with the current culture/business model versus "sustaining technology" that enables further success of the current culture/model. Looks at several industries, from automotive to brokerage. Chapter 8 Preparing for the Unpredictable -- looks at surprising occurrences in recent past of Internet e-business, and discusses similar expectations for the future. Again there is an emphasis on vision and business model in trying to predict how the future will develop. This chapter is a fun one to read. Contains predictions from many of e-industry's founders and leaders about how the future will develop. Wireless transformation is high among them.
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Summary: Basic reading emphasizing concepts much less alive today....
Review: This is a good book to get a quick study on some basic e-business, however, it is dated and does certainly not intent to spark any ideas.
If you desire to read stuff more profound and more connected to real business, pick something else, for example, 'Seven Steps to Nirvana' from Mohan Sahwney from Kellogg School of Management.
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Summary: no good
Review: Very disappointed. I agree with one of the previous reviews. It's full of things I could pick up from magazines and full of cliches. Expected a lot more. Read it in a couple of hours (on and off). Waste of money.
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