Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or 'smart' results. These Smart Business Networks (SBNs) enable individual organizations to compete more effectively and to respond better to a changing world.  This idea attracted a diverse group of academic scholars and business professionals to Beijing from May 19-23, 2008, hosted by Tsinghua University. They discovered new ways to manage network resources, operate business processes across a network, create a business operations platform, understand the importance of network position and the smart mastering of technology.  Effective managers, they concluded, must have a firm understanding of these fundamental network concepts in order to orchestrate the networks of the future. This book presents the results of an intense and energizing event which resulted in new theoretical foundations and practical insights.

Setting the Scene

The Network Experience - New Value from Smart Business Networks
The Network Factor - How to Remain Competitive
Process Management in Business Networks
Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities
The Actors
Network Essentials
Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment
Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks - Let's Create "Life" from Inert Information
Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market
Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise
Networks in Action
Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks
Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network
Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics
Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry
Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries
Network Enablers
Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network
Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's
The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents
The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility
Network Orchestration
Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows
Orchestrating Smart Business Networks
Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks
Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks.