A number of scientists - from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications - gathered at the Vanenburg castle in the Netherlands to discuss a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people, organisations and IT/networking infrastructures, bound together in dynamic, unpredictable ways, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. They posed the question: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart' that is just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The answer was that we observe the emergence of "business operating systems" that run business processes on different organisational platforms while sharing elements of their infrastructures. Business processes become portable: The end-to-end management of different processes running across different organisations in many different forms becomes possible, while leaving to each actor the ultimate power of choosing its partners in different constellations. This book presents the outcomes of an energizing discussion of this emerging new direction in management science.
This book presents the dynamic outcome of an expert discussion on Smart Business Networks. The participants gathered at the Vanenburg castle in the Netherlands to discuss the novel concept. They see the future as a developing web of people, organizations and IT/networking infrastructures, bound together in dynamic, unpredictable ways, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The text combines practical cases with new theory and is a must have for both practitioners and researchers.
Peter H.M. Vervest
Information Systems Information Technology (IT) Smart Business Network Strategy Webservice architectures business business process business process management information system management networks operating system organization organizations