The Network Experience — New Value from Smart Business Networks

Abstract

Setting the Scene.- The Network Experience - New Value from Smart Business Networks.- The Network Factor - How to Remain Competitive.- Process Management in Business Networks.- Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities.- The Actors.- Network Essentials.- Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment.- Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks - Let's Create Life from Inert Information.- Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market.- Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise.- Networks in Action.- Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks.- Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network.- Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics.- Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry.- Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries.- Network Enablers.- Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network.- Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's.- The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents.- The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility.- Network Orchestration.- Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows.- Orchestrating Smart Business Networks.- Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks.- Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks.