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The E-Process Edge : Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet by Peter G. W. Keen β€” book cover

The E-Process Edge : Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet

by Peter G. W. Keen
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Overview

Learn how to combine new technology with business processes to increase revenue and boost profits through relationships and repeat business.

It's time to stop talking about the Internet economy and start managing it! eCommerce has changed business as we know it. No hype,it's reality. New companies,new competition,new customers. . . all challenge existing business rules. The emerging new economy,however,has fundamentals about customers,relationships,service,and brand. Customers matter in eCommerce and gaining their trust and repeat business building relationships are critical for success. How does a company create an eCommerce business based on relationships? What must it do to achieve the right balance between vertical operation and virtual integration? What should be on the executive agenda for eCommerce? The answers can be found inside The eProcess Edge,from thought leaders Peter Keen and Mark McDonald.

Keen and McDonald have identified the approaches and steps necessary to create wealth through raising efficiency and combating commoditization found on the Web. It's not about just knowing what to do; it's about knowing how to implement processes,and turning innovation into execution. This book is a practical roadmap that shows managers and technology decision-makers exactly how to improve their processes and capabilities,gain the competitive advantage through relationships,and help their companies build wealth. Revealing the advantages of eProcess,the authors show how to combine new technology with business processes to generate faster revenue growth and greater profits through relationships and repeat business.


Provides a practical roadmap to improving and automating business processes.

About the Author, Peter G. W. Keen


Peter Keen is the founder and Chairman of Keen Innovations and has servedon the faculties of Harvard, MIT and Stanford. In 1994, he was profiled byForbes magazine as the "consultant from Paradise." In 1988, he was namedby Information Week as one of the top ten consultants in the informationtechnology field. His research, writing, education and public speaking allfocus on helping firms make a management difference in their deployment ofinformation technology as a business resource and on bridging the gap inunderstanding, language and planning between business decisions andtechnology choices. A prolific writer, Peter Keen is the author of manybooks that have strongly influenced the business-technology dialogue,including The Process Edge: Creating Value Where It Counts (1997) whichlooks at business processes as invisible financial assets and liabilitiesto be managed as a portfolio of capital investments targeted at increasingshareholder value. Peter and his wife Sherry live in Fairfax Station,Virginia.

Mark McDonald is an associate partner and director of the Center forProcess Excellence at Andersen Consulting. During his 11 years at AndersenConsulting, he has been a leader in developing approaches for processdesign in eCommerce, business integration, product development and rapidapplication development. Since 1996, Mark has published on Internetdevelopment in leading magazines and journals. Mark leads the eProcessinitiative within Andersen Consulting involving more than 60 eCommerceprojects and companies. He frequently speaks on eCommerce and relatedtopics. He works with Global 1000 and start-up companies around the world.He has a Master Degree from TrinityCollege, and a Bachelors from ColgateUniversity. Mark and his wife Carolyn live in St. Charles, Illinois withtheir two children, Brian and Sarah.

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Book Details

Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
Osborne/McGraw-Hill,U.S.
Pages
300
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780072126266

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