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e-Enterprise : Business Models, Architecture, and Components
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Author: Faisal Hoque, David Orchard
List Price: $38.00
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ISBN: 052177487X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (28 February, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 15,556
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Hogwarts for the enterprise
As great as the Harry Potter books are, you wouldn't base a business on the theory of Hogwarts.This book is a silly e-HogWarts-like fantasy that leads one to believe software is a land of wishin' and hopin' and where simple minded split em up into lil' boxes mentality makes big problems easy. Even in today's world of web services and OOD, serious software is hard work, requires risk, investment and skilled talent in many facets from business to technology. This author over simplifies to the point of e-absurdity. You just plug a hip-bone into the thigh-bone, or is it authentication + framework + function1 + function2 yields application. What garbage, if software were that easy, no more books would be needed. Once I realised the silliness, (it takes about 10 minutes to read the whole book) I scanned the author's background: A failed e-company (ec cube) to his credit and it appears to me he is just about done with his latest debacle, something called enamics, based on yet another apparently mindless book. Please do yourself a favor, avoid this book, this author, and, why, oh, why, did Cambridge publish this? A great conspiracy must be behind this...
Rating: 4 out of 5
E-Enterprise: ¿Well worth your time!
Being an MBA/MSE student, I primarily picked this book to supplement concepts learned in my E-commerce class. My hope was to gain a more detailed insight into e-commerce strategy. I was not disappointed.This book is jam packed with valuable models, insight and very useful advice. Hoque provides a structured, informative outline of fundamental B2B and B2C business concepts that you need to consider and understand in order to accomplish a successful transition to clicks-and-mortar. He presents a well-defined blueprint from "Brochureware" all the way to E-enterprise and explains the benefits of integrating the extended value chain model into your business model. The book is easy to read and Hoque makes excellent use of relevant examples from companies such as GE, Ariba and Cisco to name a few. He makes good use of tables and figures, although I do feel they could have been made more comprehensive in certain involved chapters. E-Enterprise has the advantage of being a recent publication and most of the information presented in the book is still very applicable, unlike other books that are barely a year old and are close to being obsolete. This book is an excellent resource for all-level management, entrepreneurs and generally all who are interested in the dynamics of a true, sustainable strategy for transformation and "re-transformation". Read it. It's well worth your time!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Highly Recommended!
It's tough to pick up a magazine or turn on the television these days without someone telling you that you must turn your company into an e-company in order to survive. But once you get past these exhortations to "embrace change," it's surprisingly hard to find any practical advice on how to integrate e-commerce into your company's business plan. Therein lies the value of Faisal Hoque's e-Enterprise, which disposes of generalities and plunges headlong into an explanation of online business models, applications, architecture and tools. For the technologically challenged, this book will go down like castor oil. But if you are running a business - any business - Hoque's exhaustive blueprint to creating a true e-business will be exactly the right medicine. For that reason, we at getAbstract.com implore executives and managers to bite the techie bullet and read this book, which also will satisfy even the hardest-core geeks with its encyclopedic guide to the components that constitute the building blocks of the e-Enterprise.
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