The network experience: new value from smart business networks

Digital networking technologies are powering organizations and companies to combine in fluid and dynamic networks to generate exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These smart business networks (SBNs) enable new ways to derive value from the combination of many individual organizations which, grouped as a network, are able to compete more effectively and respond with more agility to a changing world. This is the theme that attracted a diverse group of academic scholarsand business professionals to Beijing, 19 - 23 May 2008. Hosted by Tsinghua University they discovered new ways to manage network resources, operate business processes across a network, understand the importance of network position and the smart mastering of technology. People, they concluded, are an undervalued determinant for network leadership and orchestration. This book presents the results of an intense and energizing event which resulted in new theoreticalfoundations and practice insights A managerial perspective on what managers must do to generate smart business results from using networking technologies; and the resultant academic research challenges Understanding of business networks / latest update on state-of-the-art/ guidelines/ contact names

• ISBN: 978-3-540-85580-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 385
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés