Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (Harvard Business School): Amazon.de: Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy: Englische Bücher

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God forbid that doing business and making money on the Internet should bear any resemblance whatsoever to the past millennium of capitalism before our clunky bricks-and-mortar marketplace started going virtual--that would be too easy. Nope, it's a whole different ballgame now, and the new rule is: adapt or die. At least that's the message behind Digital Capital.

From the three principles at cyber consultant Alliance for Converging Technologies (one of whom, Tapscott, authored the bestsellers The Digital Economy and Growing up Digital), the book's pet paradigm for global takeover is what they call the business web, or "b-web" for short--in their words, "strategically aligned, multi-enterprise partner networks of producers, suppliers, service providers, infrastructure companies and customers that conduct business communication and transactions via digital channels." In our words, that's more like an eBay, a Cisco, a Dell, an MP3.com, a Linux ...in short, any enterprise that a) knows how to form lateral partnerships with other goods- or service-providers, and b) eliminates the role of planes, trains and automobiles--not to mention lots of time, money and human energy--by doing almost everything over the 'Net. Not only do the authors provide a wealth of b-web case studies (including Schwab, Priceline, Webvan, AT&T Solutions and OptiMark in addition to those mentioned above), they outline in the latter part of the book a step by-step process for "weaving" a b-web of one's own.

Too often,Digital Capital's smart, sound ideas come marinated in think tank jargon so alienated from plain English as to be near-impenetrable. Consider: "Disaggregation leads to 'disintermediation' and 'reintermediation'", which, believe it or not, isn't a line French film theorists use in pick-up bars, but the simple fact that business webs manage to cut out a lot of the traditional intermediary steps between producers and customers--now why couldn't they just have said that? After you nibble through the self-important MBA-ese, you'll find a smart look at how online shops are rewiring early-21st century capitalism.--Timothy Murphy, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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God forbid that doing business and making money on the Internet should bear any resemblance whatsoever to the past millennium of bricks-and-mortar capitalism--that would be too easy. Nope, it's a whole different ball game now, and the new rule is: adapt or die. At least that's the message behind Digital Capital. From the three principal cyberconsultants at the Alliance for Converging Technologies (one of whom, Don Tapscott, authored the bestsellers The Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital), comes a paradigm for global takeover: the business web, or "b-web" for short. In their words, b-webs are "strategically aligned, multi-enterprise partner networks of producers, suppliers, service providers, infrastructure companies, and customers that conduct business communication and transactions via digital channels." Some examples are eBay, Cisco, Dell, MP3.com... in short, any enterprise that a) knows how to form lateral partnerships with other goods-or-service providers, and b) eliminates the role of planes, trains, and automobiles--not to mention lots of time, money, and human energy--by doing almost everything over the Internet. Not only do the authors provide a wealth of b-web case studies (including Charles Schwab, Priceline.com, Webvan, AT&T Solutions, and OptiMark in addition to those mentioned above), they outline a step by-step process for weaving a b-web of one's own.

Too often, Digital Capital's sound ideas come marinated in think-tank jargon so alienated from plain English as to be nearly impenetrable. Consider: "Disaggregation leads to 'disintermediation' and 'reintermediation'," which, believe it or not, isn't a line that French film theorists use in pick-up bars, but the simple statement that business webs manage to cut out a lot of the traditional steps between producers and customers. Now why couldn't they just have said that? No matter. After you nibble through the self-important MBA-speak, you'll find a smart look at how online shops are rewiring early 21st-century capitalism. --Timothy Murphy

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e-business rendered transparent 18. Mai 2000

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Great book. I particularly liked the chapters on human resources and marketing: too many e-business books get all worked up about technology and ignore these very real and very human elements of doing business. Over the past thirty years I've worked in many fields and many countries, and I've always found that success or failure depends in large part on the strength of your communications infrastructure. This book's quite elegant model of the "business web," in which producers, suppliers, and customers build transparent and flexible relationships with one another, convinces me that there's more to e-business than the usual hype and hysterics. Highly recommended.

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Good structured theory - but the example Enron adds doubt 7. Dezember 2001

Von Thomas

Tapscott/Ticoll/Lowy describe a very clear concept of business in the web. Nice and easy! But the falls of Enron and Webvan show that this is only a concept and success will need more than the web.

A pleasant relief from e-babble 21. Juli 2000

Von Jussi Bjorling

Don Tapscott deserves a tremendous amount of respect for trying to tie his ideas about the New Economy to specific examples, and for putting a stake in the ground with falsifiable assertions about what does and what doesn't work in e-business. In his latest book, he argues that the horizontal linkages made possible by the Internet (which allows for much tighter integration of different firms at much lower costs) will allow category killers to arise in both New and Old Economy niches. This is a serious idea, and one that deserves the detailed attention he gives it.

I am not entirely sure he's right. Companies like Webvan, which he cites in a case study, will succeed or fail based on how well they handle the old-fashioned problem of distribution. Only companies with NO physical product unambiguously meet his definition of taking full advantage of the "b-web."

Still, Tapscott has an interesting idea, and he has argued it well. Whether or not you agree, reading this book will force you to reconsider your own position, and that in itself is valuable.

This is the book for all startups

I rated this book 5 stars for these reasons: 1)Excellent book for startups - it will not tell you how to do it but will certainly tell you where you are in the big complex b-web... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 26. Juni 2000 ver�ffentlicht

Clarity ... at last.

I have read many books on the new economy and this is the best. This book dares to gives a practical step-by-step description of how to "weave a business web. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von Cliff Merkell

Establishing Improved Business Models in a Connected Age

This is one of the few business books that dare address the central issue for most companies today: How to establish competitively-advantaged business models for serving customers... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 21. Juni 2000 von Donald Mitchell

A must for Directors

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs, by Don Tapscott, David Ticcoll and Alex Lowy, Nicholas Brealey (2000), 272 pp., �19.99 UK.

Ver�ffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von D. B. Lloyd

Timely Vision

Answers questions about how companies can transition from the old economy to the new economy as painlessly as possible. Head and shoulders above most other 'net' books. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von E. David Ellington

At Last

Finally, a book with real substance about the emerging world of business. Based on solid research and thoughtful analysis this book carefully unravels the complex dynamics of... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 27. Mai 2000 von Reader

Straight and to the point....

I'll admit it: I read a lot of business books, Internet and otherwise, and most of them either bore me to tears or confuse the hell out of me. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 25. Mai 2000 ver�ffentlicht

Digital Capital delivers: Smart and Practical

Over the past three or four years I've probably read a dozen books and countless articles on the 'dot.com' world. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 18. Mai 2000 von Larry

Impressive.

I'm impressed with the research that went into this book... The problem I have with "living on Internet time" is that no one ever gets deep into an issue or a problem. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 18. Mai 2000 von Matthew Bissett

Nothing but the good stuff

This book is good news for those of us in venture capital. One of the biggest problems that businesses (start-ups AND traditional enterprises) have when they move onto the Internet... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 18. Mai 2000 von N LeChasseur

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