The Practical Real-Time Enterprise

Business processes in modern companies.- Inter-company business processes and e-collaboration.- Business process management in real-time companies.- Real value in real time.- Competitive response: a new lens for evaluating company performance.- The Real-Time Enterprise Facts, practices and prospects.- Typical examples from industries.- Building the Real-Time Enterprise at DaimlerChrysler.- Real-time-oriented service architectures in the airline sector.- The Extended Enterprise - Economic integration in real-time.- Strategic perspectives for the hotel industry.- Technological networking.- Technical networking.- Designing more productive business processes with convergent networks.- QoS Architectures and Resource Management in the Intranet.- Technical process support.- Business process evolution in real-time.- I&C Technologies for a Real-Time Enterprise (RTE).- Enterprise security.- Secure mobile business solutions for real-time enterprises.- Identity & Access Management Faster ROI and improved security through efficient assignment of rights and access control.- Real-time business requires security, trust and availability.- Outsourcing.- Intelligent IT sourcing in the financial industry: background, preconditions and requirements of future IT organization design.- Outsourcing as a strategic management decision.- Less costs, more functionality.- Challenges facing qualification and management.- Visual management.- From CIO to Chief Process Officer.- How to be switched on - without being switched off.- The steps in evolving into an "E-Enterprise".- The RTE: it starts with early warnings.- Towards the E-Enterprise: standards, networks and co-operation strategies.- The evolution to real-time architecture.- Distributed mini-factory networks as a form of real-timeenterprise: concept, flexibility potential and case studies.- Organic IT: cut IT costs, speed up business.- Living and working in a global network.- Delivering the promise. Making it pervasive.- The visions.- Knowledge-based companies - objectives and requirements.- Living and working in a networked world: ten trends.- Swarm organization - a new paradigm for the E-enterprise of the future.- Young professionals look to the communication of tomorrow.- Information and communication in 20XX.

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"A guide and collection of ideas and time-proven concepts, the book highlight ways on how to accelerate a company, boost competitiveness, increase attractiveness for the customers and ultimately work more economically. Innovative experts, leading thinkers from science and research and respective service and technology providers impart multifaceted ideas as well as essential knowledge from diverse points of views on how to effectively meet the challenges of 'speed' and to fully exhaust its possibilities." (Siemens heute, March, 2004)