Transform Your Business into E: Going Beyond the Dot Com Disasters

The dot com failures of 2000-2001 are attributable in part to poor adaptations of E-Business practices to successful businesses. In the aftermath of their demise, Transform Your Business into e presents an exploration and analysis of grafting E-Business strategies onto successful enterprises. Leading managers from initial reviews of their existing businesses to evaluations of their preliminary successes and plans for expansion, this book translates visions into specific actions.

Transform Your Business into e investigates how to:
* Transform your enterprise into E-Business without destroying and disrupting your business
* Develop your down-to-earth E-Business vision, objectives, and strategies
* Align business, E-Business, and IT for success
* Employ collaborative methods and empowerment for E-Business success
* Determine your E-Business readiness
* Achieve political and cultural goals through E-Business
* Define and implement Quick Hit process improvements that lead to E-Business
* Overcome resistance to E-Business
* Develop a usable E-Business implementation strategy
* Direct and manage outsourcing
* Measure business processes, business involvement, and vendor work
* Avoid failure in E-Business implementation

Bennet Lientz has taught and consulted on project management for the past 28 years to more than 5000 people. He developed the concept of the management critical path, acted as project manager of the Internet, and turned around 10 failing projects. This Second Edition is Lientz’ seventh book; he has also written more than 25 articles in various areas of project management.

Kathryn P. Rea is president and founder of The Consulting Edge, Inc., which was established in 1984. The firm specializes in E-Business, process improvement, project management, and financial consulting. Rea has managed more than 65 major technology-related projects internationally. She has advised on and carried out projects in government, engergy, banking and finance, distribution, trading, retailing, transportation, mining, manufacturing, and utilities. She is the author of eight books and more than 20 articles in various areas of information systems and analysis.