E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise (Hardcover)

~ Grant Norris (Author), James R. Hurley (Author), Kenneth M. Hartley (Author), John R. Dunleavy (Author), John D. Balls (Author), John Dunleavy (Author) "In the few short years since it first appeared, Web-based technology has already had an enormous impact on consumers and businesses around the world..." (more)
Key Phrases: nonintegrated systems, shared service centers, extended value chain, Commerce One, Interim Step Destination Points, Customer Management (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's full of diagrams and is written in a direct and concise style." (Internet Works)

"To the right business, the message could be useful." (Ambassador, October 2000)

"It's full of diagrams and is written in a direct and concise style." -- Internet Works

"To the right business, the message could be useful." -- Ambassador, October 2000

Product Description

Is Your Company Getting the Most from Its Investment in Change?

Many companies have already invested heavily in infrastructure change, some are making that investment now, and all are contemplating the costs of becoming or evolving as an e-business. Is your company a "greenfield" organization with no back-end systems, or one whose infrastructure support systems are integrated across the enterprise? Are you just beginning to think about e-business capabilities, or are you on the leading edge of convergence? Whatever your company’s position on the ERP/E-Business Matrix, E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise provides the proven techniques you need to know to meld enterprise resource planning capabilities with the communications power of the Internet.

Is Your Company Positioned for E-Business Success?

The Internet has revolutionized twenty-first century business. Organizations today can communicate with customers, suppliers, and sellers at e-speed with the click of a mouse. Yet, with all of the excitement about the external possibilities of the Internet, companies still need efficient internal processes to make and move products, manage finances, recruit and motivate employees, and excel.

E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise covers the skills and tools you will need to combine existing ERP software and capabilities with emerging Web-based technologies. In this forward-thinking outline for a new business structure, executives and managers will discover:

• Strategies for established companies to penetrate the Internet marketplace
• Procedures that lower costs across the supply and demand chain
• Techniques that help you meet–and master–the dot.com challenge

The companies best positioned to succeed in the near future are those that can balance existing ERP-based infrastructures and capabilities with exciting new e-business innovations. E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise examines the changing but essential role of ERP, places it in the context of the Web-based technologies defining today’s e-business environment, and reveals how to blend the best aspects of both to create a strong and flexible twenty-first century business enterprise.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (June 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471392081
• ISBN-13: 978-0471392088
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #830,395 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Integrate ERP with E-Business to create customer value, August 3, 2000

By A Customer

The book explains how ERP can be integrated with E-Business to transfer an enterprise, creating customer value and competitive advantages. It provides a good guidline for business, no matter click or brick, to capitalize the ERP/E-Business opportunities, by using the ERP/E-Business Matrix. It also is a wonderful reference to business majors who want to pursue the E career.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book for who want to know e-business and ERP, July 14, 2000

By	"nattapab" (bangkok Thailand) - See all my reviews

It explained clearly the relationship between the hot issue e-business and the backbone ERP. It is also very helpful for the one who want to jump to e-business but know little about ERP. The ERP/e-businees matrix is useful to access the company situation.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Both/And -- Not Either/Or, May 5, 2001

By	Sue White, Executive Coach & SAP Project ... (CA) - See all my reviews

An excellent overview of a very complex and timely subject. I especially liked the ERP/E-Business Matrix and the discussion of regions, companies and assumptions underlying it. I found the discussion of "adaptive" vs. "disruptive" changes helpful and insightful. Very concise and to-the-point, a quick & easy read, but one which should be internalized over a longer period of time. Covered a lot of ground in less than 200 pages. Overall, an excellent addition to my bookshelf.

Would, however, have liked to see a bibliography & some footnotes for the statistics cited