A Practical Guide to Planning for E-Business Success: How to E-enable Your Enterprise

by Anita Cassidy

News of the Web's demise has been greatly exaggerated. The Internet continues to impact our lives and how we do business. It has the power to transform entire industries and create new ones, challenge industry leaders, and enable businesses in entirely new ways. The question is no longer will you participate in the Internet revolution, but when and how.

Rather than talking Internet hype, A Practical Guide to Planning for E-Business Success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574443046
• ISBN13: 9781574443042
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Detailed, straightforward roadmap to success

If you've read Ms. Cassidy's two previous books on IS process improvement and IS strategic planning you'll recognize her straightforward, structured approach to planning for e-Business.This book lays out a roadmap in eight steps:(1) planning(2) assessing the current environment and situation(3) developing a business case framed as a value proposition(4) defining the opportunities and competitive posture(5) determining all factors and impacts (application architecture, technical architecture, business process, information systems, people and organizational and cost/benefit)(6) design (including user interface, security and other important factors)(7) deliver (develop, test, release and support)(8) discuss (elicit feedback, analyze and rectify/improve)The steps is an effective e-business life cycle, and the level of detail into which this book goes will provide ample material for developing a high level plan of action that takes all of the important issues and factors into account.