"This book focuses on business process improvement, a key element of the most influential management movement since the 1980s, and how process improvement affects organizational knowledge sharing"--Provided by publisher.

1. Modeling accuracy of promised ship date and IT costs in a supply chain / Young M. Lee -- 2. Cost estimation in a capacitated environment / Mark Eklin, Yohanan Arzi, Avraham Shtub -- 3. Analysis of financial returns and risks of implementing RFID for supply chains / Ertunga C. Özelkan, Agnes...

Corporations across the globe are increasingly considering the importance of user experience and business process design in creation of Web information systems. This book provides an overview of modern Web application technologies useful to business designers. It presents information...

Are Multi-Channel Technologies Adopted in Online Consumer Auction Markets in Finland? / Jarkko Vesa, Eric van Heck -- The Changing Role of Middle-Men Infomediaries / Mirella Lahteenmaki, Markku Tinnila -- Meeting the Demands of Wide- Audience End Users / Ken Peffers, Tuure Tuunanen --...

"This book analyzes obstacles, provides critical assessment of existing approaches, and reviews recent research efforts to overcome interoperability problems in electronic business"--Provided by publisher.

"The authors address Agile/Virtual Enterprises as a new organizational paradigm, highly dynamic reconfigurable agile networks of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, customers, etc., and using specific organizational architectures that introduce the...

Today's enterprises are increasingly going global by becoming more distributed, leveraging resource bases in all parts of the world. Whether through offshore relationships, global support or application development programs, or linking disparate parts of organizations, enterprises are reducing...

"This book explores concepts, models, and IT infrastructures of the e-supply chain, and develops a broad understanding of issues pertaining to the use of emerging technologies and their impact on supply chain flexibility and management. It provides key ideas, concepts and applications suited to...

"In the current business landscape, many business firms compete in one project and cooperate in another related project, and they do so at the same time. Even more interesting is that certain members of these firms are involved in both projects. This book examines this new business...

"This book presents cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks in a highly informed global environment with abundant dynamic and uncertain challenges"--Provided by publisher.