The
E-Process Edge
Creating
Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet
Keen
, McDonald
Osborne
July 2000 304 pages Hardback 0072126264
This is the first book on the
market that focuses on teaching IT leaders how to implement hyper-efficient business
processes in the e-commerce market. Companies are jumping onto the e-commerce bandwagon,
but are struggling to remain profitable. This resource will provide them with help as more
and more IT decisions and investments are driven by business goals.
Key Features
- A
practical roadmap to improving and automating business processes.
- Top
industry names! Peter Keen has sold over 200,000 copies of 3 bestsellers, is a regular
columnist for ComputerWorld and a regular keynote speaker at conferences. Mark McDonald is
one of the top e-commerce veterans at Andersen Consulting.
Contents
Part 1: The eProcess
Advantage. eCommerce: What we really know. eProcess: Strategies and Payoffs. Exemplars of
eProcess. Part 2: Relationships. The relationship development cycle: from transactions to
power brand. From relationships to capabilities. Designing the relationship: business
model plus technology plus eProcess. Part 3: Sourcing Processes. Embed the process in
software. Out-task and in-source. Do it yourself. A reality test: barriers to eProcess.
Part 4: The Economics of the e-firm. Capital structures. Cost structures and margins.
Investory valuation: Price/Vision versus Price/Earnings. Part 5: The Executive Agenda. The
human and organizational side of eProcess. Process Wealth: from idea to execution.
This book targets IT
executives, CIOs and technology decision-makers at any