This book investigates what enterprises can do and/or what should it be capable of in order to accelerate organizational changes. Therefore, a capability-based method is developed, which assists in the identification, structuring and management of capabilities. The approach is embedded in a process comprising four building blocks that provide appropriate procedures, concepts and supporting tools evolved from theory and practical use cases. The guide represents a flexible method for capability newcomers and experienced audiences to optimize enterprises' economic impacts of EAM supporting the alignment of business and IT.

Unternehmensmodellierung dient dazu, die wichtigsten Komponenten von Organisationen sowie deren Relationen zueinander abzubilden. Sie wird bei einer Vielzahl strategischer und operativer Aufgaben eingesetzt. In dem Buch erlautern die Autoren anhand der Methode "Kochbuch" die Grundlagen und Einsatzwecke der Unternehmensmodellierung, insbesondere stellen sie die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf ein Unternehmen und die Analysetechniken dar. Die Konzepte und Methoden koennen durch genaue Vorgehensbeschreibungen unmittelbar angewendet werden.

In addition to the classification of the Electronic Commerce with respect to the information society, potentials regarding the online trade business will be elucidated. In the first chapters, general preconditions and enterprise foundation concepts are illustrated. Aspects like the Electronic Commerce, the strategy management process as well as the regulatory framework with focus on online trade start-ups will be presented by explanations and examples. In the main part, the term Web 2.0 is defined as well as its fragmentation into different approaches is shown. The components of these approaches are to be used latterly as criteria for the analysis of actual Electronic Commerce solutions. In a set of tests and analyses as well as a preceding classification, nine systems are evaluated concerning their Web 2.0 functionalities. Aspects of the implementation will be introduced by an example solution. Apart from the general settings and system requirements particularly different Web 2.0 extension measures will be treated. A practical example of an Electronic Commerce start-up enterprise is finally presented.