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Summary: one of the best e-business implementation books
Review: A number of the existing e-commerce type books are very disappointing because they are either too basic, define what things are, or provide unrealistic suggestions. This is one book that provides a down to earth set of many guidelines for putting in e-business. There are good examples from both B2B and B2C as well as tips for dealing with all parts of e-commerce implementation, including vendor issues, team problems, relationships with upper management, technology, and project problems. There are example companies from different industries that are discussed in almost every chapter. The book is very easy to read and use. We have created a checklist of the guidelines already and use this in both implementation and operation.
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Summary: Essential book for e-commerce projects
Review: If you want to learn what e-commerce is and get a lot of jargon involving the words ¡°chain¡±, ¡°global¡±, ¡°supplier¡±, ¡°customer¡±, and ¡°e-¡°, do not look here. This is a book on how to do e-commerce. I am a manager at a software firm that implements e-commerce solutions. In doing many e-commerce projects over the past 4 years we have found that implementing e-commerce is quite different and more complex than standard IT projects. However, most books either do not address putting e-commerce in or they treat e-commerce as an IT application. E-commerce is not a standard IT project. Today about 40% of our staff do business analysis and support tasks for e-commerce rather than IT work. This is the first book to deal realistically with the problems that people in the real world face when they do e-commerce. We are now buying this book for our customers as well as our staff. The book handles the roles of business staff, consultants, and systems staff. More importantly the book discusses in depth how to detect, handle, and resolve specific things that you are likely to meet up with. This book is both valuable and realistic.
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Summary: Essential book for e-commerce projects
Review: If you want to learn what e-commerce is and get a lot of jargon involving the words ¡°chain¡±, ¡°global¡±, ¡°supplier¡±, ¡°customer¡±, and ¡°e-¡°, do not look here. This is a book on how to do e-commerce. I am a manager at a software firm that implements e-commerce solutions. In doing many e-commerce projects over the past 4 years we have found that implementing e-commerce is quite different and more complex than standard IT projects. However, most books either do not address putting e-commerce in or they treat e-commerce as an IT application. E-commerce is not a standard IT project. Today about 40% of our staff do business analysis and support tasks for e-commerce rather than IT work. This is the first book to deal realistically with the problems that people in the real world face when they do e-commerce. We are now buying this book for our customers as well as our staff. The book handles the roles of business staff, consultants, and systems staff. More importantly the book discusses in depth how to detect, handle, and resolve specific things that you are likely to meet up with. This book is both valuable and realistic.
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Summary: Not a B2B Implementation Management guide......
Review: Our cooperative has been working to implement e-business for over two years. We have run into many problems that most books do not address. One wonders if the writers of most books have ever really implemented e-business. It is clear that these authors have real implementation experience--a rarity. Rather than address the wonders of e-business, this book gets down to the gut issues of implementation. How do you deal with management? How do you deal with changes in direction and technology? How do you organize a team of people across departments that don't get along with each other? How do you monitor and get the most out of vendors? How does managing an e-business effort differ from standard projects? All of these are addressed in detail in this book--in addition to over 75 other problems you are likely to encounter. For anyone who is thinking about e-business or doing it, this book is an excellent guide.
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Summary: Down to earth e-business from a business view
Review: Rather than discuss fuzzy strategies and generalities this book gets down to the detail of defining an e-business strategy. The four alternative strategies provide a good set of alternatives. These are separation, overlap, integration, and replacement. The book suggests that you evolve your strategy over time. We have applied this to sort out our approach and to get down to details. We are now using the other parts of the book on managing the teams and vendors. The book gives some good ideas on how to deal with high management expectations. In e-business management seems to expect miracles fast. This cannot happen. How to bring managers down to earth is given attention. Overall the approach is refreshing and realistic.One of the biggest differences with some other similar books is that it treats e-business as a program. E-business is not a project. It continues after the initial implementation. Some other features are: it treats the business side of e-business in detail, it addresses marketing in depth, it provides very useful detailed lessons learned. The book gives innovative methods for communicating with management and issues.
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Summary: Excellent guidelines for e-bus projects
Review: The authors have used their experience in e-business implementation to provide specific guidelines and tips in implementing e-business projects. The book deals with many technical, management, user, and vendor issues that you are likely to encountered and that we have dealt with in our e-business efforts. There is more time pressure and higher management expectations for e-business than standard IT or business projects. There are good suggestions for dealing with the time pressure. E-business is a program since one project leads to another. E-business projects overlap. This book addresses that in four chapters that handle expansion and on-going e-business. Using this book we have encountered fewer problems in our latest e-business project than in previous efforts. Some other areas of the book that are good are dealing with competing demands for resources between regular work and e-business projects as well as the method for tracking, analyzing, and reporting on e-business issues. Chapter 15 has some good charts and analysis for e-business issues. Another useful idea is to have multiple project leaders for the e-business implementation. There are examples in banking, manufacturing, retailing, and natural resources that are followed through the book. While written for e-business there are useful ideas here for IT projects overall.
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Summary: very applicable to businesses
Review: This book has many good tips for e-business. It also has the following advantages: 1. It is not written by big accounting firm people who assume that you have infinite money and resources. 2. It does not assume that you have an ERP. 3. It assumes that you have only unlimited time. It is comprehensive in that it includes planning, fixing current processes, and implementation.
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Summary: One of the best e-business implementation books
Review: This book provides a different approach to e-commerce. It deals with the details of the work in implementation. The collaboration approach for managing the team to get e-commerce running is a good idea. We have employed this approach before and it was successful. It is interesting that most e-commerce books treat the installation effort as a standard project. We started with the traditional approach and it failed because it was too rigid. Morale was low. Things turned around with the collaboration approach. The book has some good ideas on how to divide e-commerce into subprojects based on risk and accountability. We divided ours into departments and it did not work well since it enforced separation among departments and created more problems later. In expanding our e-commerce efforts we have also used the book. There are very useful suggestions and tips on managing contractors and consultants. Since e-commerce often involves outsourcing, this is valuable.
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Summary: On the money
Review: This book tells you exactly what it says on the cover "How to effectively manage e-business implementations". The chapters are short and sharp, the assumption is made you have experience in project management already. This is NOT a book about project management. I found the structure excellant for "active readers", easy to scan through and revise back on. If like me you manage several project you'll end up going back to it again and again.
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Summary: On the money
Review: This book tells you exactly what it says on the cover "How to effectively manage e-business implementations". The chapters are short and sharp, the assumption is made you have experience in project management already. This is NOT a book about project management. I found the structure excellant for "active readers", easy to scan through and revise back on. If like me you manage several project you'll end up going back to it again and again.
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