"A highly readable and yet comprehensive book on network businesses
that have become governable with the advent of cloud and big data
computing. Vivek Kale is a master of simplifying the complex world
of network theory and its relevance to business." -Jagdish N.
Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Emory
University Agile Network Businesses: Collaboration, Coordination,
and Competitive Advantage reflects the shift from traditional
networks to virtual and agile networks that enable businesses to
operate dynamically, thereby representing markets more closely.
This book enables IT managers and business decision-makers to
understand clearly what network businesses and enterprises are,
what they can do for them, and how to realize them. Customers in
geographically dispersed markets are demanding higher quality
products in a greater variety, at lower cost, and in a shorter
time. Thus, enterprises have moved from a few centralized and
vertically integrated facilities to geographically dispersed
networks of capabilities, competencies and resources, which are the
core of network businesses. Enterprises are now constructing more
fluid network businesses in which each member facility focuses on
differentiation and relies increasingly on its partners, suppliers,
and customers to provide the rest. Network businesses have emerged
as an organizational paradigm for collaboration and coordination
across loosely connected individual organizations. This pragmatic
book: Introduces network solutions and distributed systems that are
a first step towards enabling a network enterprise. It also gives a
detailed description of networks and agent system that have paved
the road to network enterprises. Describes the basics of
service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, and big data
that are essential to network enterprises. Details the
distinguishing aspects of network enterprises, which include
virtual enterprises, management of network enterprises, and
collaborative network enterprises. Covers such major application
areas as supply, manufacturing, e-business, platform, social and
wireless sensor networks. Introduces decision networks in the
context of supply chain networks This book reinterprets the
traditional supply chain in terms of the flow of decisions,
information, and materials, which leads to reconfiguring the
traditional supply chain network into mutually separate decision
networks (e.g., fourth-party logistics or 4PL), information
networks (e.g., wireless sensor networks), and logistics networks
(e.g., third-party logistics or 3PL).
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