Smart Business Networks

A number of scientists - from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications - gathered at the Vanenburg castle in the Netherlands to discuss an emerging concept: Smart Business Networks - a web of people, organisations and IT/networking infrastructures, bound together in dynamic, unpredictable ways, creating high-value outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. They posed the question: what should be done to make business with such a network more agile, with less pain, and with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The answer was in the emergence of "business operating systems" that run business processes on different organisational platforms while sharing elements of their infrastructures. The kaleidoscopic, dynamic linking of many different processes running simultaneously across different organisations in many different forms is becoming real, even while leaving to each actor the decision to choose its partners in different constellations. This book presents the energizing results that flowed as the participants deepened their understanding of this new direction in management practice and science. Book jacket.Peter H.M. Vervest, D-AGE Management BV is the author of 'Smart Business Networks', published 2004 under ISBN 9783540228400 and ISBN 3540228403.