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Fast track route to understanding the scope and variety of virtual organisations, and the impact of information and communications technologies on the way we do business Covers the key areas of virtual organisations, from using Internet and wireless technologies to streamline your supply chain and working practices to e-learning and adapting your management style to meet the new challenges Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Lands End, HSBC, Manugistics and BT, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Eddie Obeng, Jessica Lipnack and J

Virtual corporations. --- Industrial management. --- Organizational change.

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years-dating from the end of the 1990s-mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half of Africa's rural population was also living within range of a mobile network. Large-scale investment in the sector across the continent has transformed telecommunications from a luxury enjoyed by a privileged few to a mass-market, low-cost service, used in villages and cities alike.Africa's ICT Infrastructure: Building on the Mobile Revolution char

Mass communications --- Africa --- Business enterprises -- Computer networks. --- Virtual corporations. --- Information technology --- Telecommunication --- Economic assistance --- Business & Economics --- Economic History

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Electronic commerce --- Internet marketing --- Business enterprises --- Virtual corporations --- Commerce électronique --- Marketing sur Internet --- Entreprises --- Entreprises virtuelles --- Computer networks --- Réseaux d'ordinateurs

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Industrial management --- Clothing trade --- Success in business --- Virtual corporations --- Gestion d'entreprise --- Vêtements --- Succès dans les affaires --- Entreprises virtuelles --- Industrie et commerce --- Benetton --- Vêtements --- Succès dans les affaires

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Dynamic Business Process Formation fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). This new organization type brings a combination of business dynamism and explicit business process structure to domains where on-the-fly formation of well-organized business networks is required to deal with the complexity of new products or services under high time pressure. This book contains the main results of the IST CrossWork project, and, importantly, looks beyond the boundaries of this project and sources input from related projects and general trends in collaborative enterprises and the automotive industry. Both the business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination are covered within the modular structure of the book, which enables readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.

Business networks -- Computer network resources. --- Knowledge management. --- Virtual corporations -- Computer networks. --- Virtual corporations --- Business networks --- Knowledge management --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Computer Science --- Management Theory --- Computer networks --- Computer network resources --- Virtual corporations. --- Business enterprises --- Computer network resources. --- Computer networks. --- Management of knowledge assets --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Computer science. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Corporations --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer and Information Systems Applications. --- Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing. --- Management.