The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New Economy : Business Models, Technologies and Strategies for the 21st Century [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

by Peter Fingar (Author), Bryan Maizlish (Author), Ronald Aronica (Author)

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"...a must-read for all of us." -- Tony Rizzo, Editor In Chief, Internet World, June 1, 2001

"...the first clear expression of how to leverage existing information assets and the Internet into real return on investment." -- Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, The Object Management Group (OMG)

"The Death of e is unquestionably the birth of a new understanding of where the real new economy is headed." -- John Seely Brown, Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center(PARC)

...will influence management thinking in the decade ahead as Hammer and Champy's, "Reengineering the Corporation," did in the last decade. -- James E. McClafferty, Vice President, E-Business, Allmerica Financial

The "Death of e" provides fascinating insight into what lies ahead ... -- Dave Hollander, Co-Inventor of XML; Co-Chair, W3C XML and Schema; Chief Technical Officer, Contivo, Inc.

Truly a remarkable synthesis of current management thinking and e-business trends. A required read for anybody involved in supply-chain management. -- Dr. Vinod Singhal, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-author,

Product Description
Peter Fingar, author of the internationally acclaimed book, "Enterprise E-Commerce," joins forces with long time colleagues and industry veterans to go beyond e-commerce and on to the solid business fundamentals of the digital economy. The Internet is a whole new infrastructure for an entirely new way of doing business and competing. Economic transactions become frictionless as they move from "places" to "spaces." The crisp and insightful chapters make quick reads for CEOs, COOs, CTOs, CIOs, and line-of-business executives with little time for reading --distilling what management needs to be doing and thinking today to prepare themselves and their companies for the ride ahead.

Now that doing business on the Internet is reaching the mainstream, it's no longer e-business or e-commerce --it's just business and commerce. The authors take the mystery out of the deep and profound changes being ushered in by the ability to connect anyone-to-anyone or any computer-to-any-computer across the globe in real-time. The book signals the death of the e-hype and the beginning of the real work of building hyper-efficient, hyper-effective corporations that will continue to thrive in the years ahead.

The book systematically disassembles an enterprise's business processes, core competencies, and value chains; then reassembles them into dynamic customer-driven value webs and business ecosystems. Along the way, the authors explain the emerging business models of electronic marketplaces, peer-to-peer commerce, e-hubs, B2B exchanges, auctions, wireless applications, m-commerce, intelligent agent technology, B2B consortia, collaborative commerce, digital strategies, essential technologies and Web-services.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Meghan-Kiffer Press; 1st edition (May 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929652207
• ISBN-13: 978-0929652207
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #702,977 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHERE WE'VE BEEN, but more importantly WHERE WE ARE GOING!, August 19, 2001

By	"gmpalgon" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This book covers what assumptions were wrong in the dot-com economy and refocuses on the realities of business in the technological, digital-savy economy. It covers all of the P2Ps: Powerpoint-to-Production, Path-to-Profitability, and finally, Peer-to-Peer technologies among others.

Explained are the educational takeaways from historical, leading edge developments of e-commerce, e-procurement and electronic marketplaces and how they can be applied based on the realized importance of extended business relationships. This book then addresses the appication of the newest developments, including peer-to-peer, collaborative commerce, and B2B integration within the supply chain in the currently developing (Real New) digital economy.

This book is recommended reading as it clearly details the digital past and provokes thought on how to continue to execute using new technologies within business today.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive work on business Internet technology, January 2, 2003

By	Max More "Max More" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The first half of this book is written by the listed authors, followed by six essays by thought leaders on peer-to-peer commerce, collaborative commerce, portals, adaptive strategies for B2B marketplaces, B2B integration, and visibility in the extended supply chain. Fingar and Aronica have done a commendable job of examining and explaining the changes to business models brought by information technology. The authors tell the reader what they think was wrong with the dot-com economy and what needs to be done to succeed in the high-tech economy in which the major risk is not getting Amazoned so much as getting "GE'ed". The book straightforwardly delves into the business model implications of electronic marketplaces, peer-to-peer commerce, B2B exchanges, e-hubs, e-services, component-based architectures, m-commerce, collaborative commerce, value chain optimization, and more. The authors agree with a growing number of others, including re-engineering gurus Hammer and Champy, that the key to success now lies in extended business relationships. The book does an excellent job of looking at the new generation of Internet technologies need to enable new business models and processes. You do not need to be highly technically inclined to follow this discussion which helps business leaders understand what they need to do to power ahead in the real innovation economy. One strength of the book is reflected in the subtitle which shows that the authors are concerned not with technology alone but with how it fits together with new technologies and new business models.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peer-to-peer commerce, e-hubs, B2B exchanges, auctions, more, October 11, 2001

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Doing business on the Internet is now a mainstream phenomena ranging from novice online entrepreneurs to established multinational conglomerates. In The Death Of "e" And the Birth Of The Real New Economy, Peter Fingar and Ronald Aronic effectively collaborate to survey and explain the rapid and fundamental changes affecting how individuals and companies are doing business in this age of the computer whether the transactions are across town or on the other side of the world. The authors explain the emerging business models of the electronic marketplace, peer-to-peer commerce, e-hubs, B2B exchanges, auctions, wireless applications, m-commerce, intelligent agent technology, collaborative commerce, digital strategies, and more. The Death Of "e" And the Birth Of The Real New Economy is very highly recommended, essential reading for corporate executives, economists, business managers, and anyone with an interest in how the Internet is impacting upon local, regional, national, and international economies and business practices.