Real-Time Enterprise
Technology Forecast, 2003-2005: The Intelligent Real-Time Enterprise
Technology Forecast: 2003 to 2005 is the latest in a series that the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre has published annually for more than a dozen years. This year's book provides in-depth coverage of enterprise applications and enabling software and forecasts significant developments in those areas over the next three years. It also contains information of particular interest to senior executives, including CFO Perspectives for each of the chapters and a chapter on business reporting and XBRL.
Going Mobile: Building the Real-Time Enterprise with Mobile Applications that Work
This book provides an objective analysis of the opportunities for working harder and better while saving time and money by using mobile and wireless applications. It explains the information managers need to ask the right questions of mobile technology vendors. The authors provide an objective view of the potential and pitfalls, and point out situations where mobile technology may not be the right solution for some businesses. For those where it does fit, the book guides readers in forming a strategic vision and tactical plan for incorporating real- time/anytime communications into the business. Detailed case studies demonstrate how a particular company or agency has saved time, money, or manpower by going mobile.
The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation (Adobe Reader download)
The Seven Steps to Nirvana provides some excellent insight into the design and implementation of an e-business game plan at "low- tech, smokestack" companies that have heretofore shied away from cyber-strategies. Mohan Sawhney, the McCormick Tribune Professor of Electronic Commerce and Technology at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and Jeff Zabin, a consultant, writer, and speaker, have produced a thought-provoking yet practical entry point for senior managers and other leaders at these firms. The book progresses from creating an overarching initial vision and initiating other critical preliminary preparations to "putting your money where your mouth is, and getting people in the organization to embrace the oft-threatening new world of e-business." The ideas behind it all are solid and, perhaps most commendably, are anchored to the needs of a real-world customer base.
Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First
From "unexpected" earnings results to missed market opportunities to product launch disasters, we've come to accept uncertainty as an unavoidable fact of business life. But Kenneth G. McGee argues that even the worst business surprises rarely happen without warning-and that a few vital pieces of information can make all the difference in whether an event spells disaster, or opportunity. In Heads Up, McGee explains that success is not about predicting the future, but about obtaining the right information at the right time to effectively understand the present. Based on exclusive research into recent business catastrophes-and drawing parallels to a range of nonbusiness disasters from 9/11 to the Challenger disaster-Heads Up outlines a four-step approach managers can use to identify which pieces of information merit real-time delivery, and, as important, which do not.
