Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people and organizations, bound together in a dynamic and unpredictable way, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The question is: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart', that is, just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms. Business processes would become portable: The end-to-end management of processes running across many different organizations in many different forms would become possible. This book presents you the outcomes of an energizing and new direction in management science.

Welcome to Smart Business Networks

The Actors
The Emergence of Smart Business Networks
Challenges of Smart Business Networks - Five Perspectives
The Cordys Panel - Science Meets Business
Outcomes of Smart Business Networks
Spontaneous Collaborative Networks
Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network?
Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks
Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business Networking
Unlocking Smart Business Networks
Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains
Execution of Smart Business Networks
Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network
Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade
Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology
Building Networks In-Sync
"Off the Shelf" Smart Business Networks
Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks
Governance of Smart Business Networks
Embedded Coordination in a Business Network
Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks
The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market
Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management
Design of Smart Business Networks
Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks
How Much Business Modularity?
The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks
Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management
What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments?
Smart ICT Support for Business Networks
Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking
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