Once service organisations recognise collaborative e-marketplace as a strategic business approach, they can embrace the ultimate form of competition enabled by the internet. Hence, the collaboration makes it possible to create customer-driven value-chains by harmonising demand and supply...

E-commerce has become an increasingly important source of competitive advantages for business-to-business (B2B) companies. It enables companies not only to decrease transactional costs and offer wide range of additional services, but also to enhance efficiency in collaboration with their...

This book accomplishes an analysis of critical aspects of managerial implications on the business with information. The business dealing with information is spreading in the service market; and, an efficient management of informational processes, in order to perform successful business with...

Today's businesses are no longer arranged as a value chain but rather as a complex network of entities with intertwined relations. To identify disruptions it is hence more efficient to consider businesses as ecosystems. The mobile communication ecosystem which was until now quite healthy finds...

The modeling and analysis of system and network performance issues are useful tools in the development and engineering processes. The analytical models have a high value in the early stages to uncover major performance problems which affect the design of the architecture before the cost of...