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Published: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 11:00 (CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In Agile Network Businesses: Collaboration, Coordination, and Competitive Advantage (CRC Press, an Auerbach Publication, 2017), author Vivek Kale enables IT managers and business decision makers to understand clearly what network businesses and enterprises are, what they can do for them, and how to realize them. Customers in geographically dispersed markets are demanding higher quality products in a greater variety, at lower cost, and in a shorter time. Thus, enterprises have moved from a few centralized and vertically integrated facilities to geographically dispersed networks of capabilities, competencies, and resources, which are the core of network businesses. Enterprises are now constructing more fluid network businesses in which each member facility focuses on differentiation and relies increasingly on its partners, suppliers, and customers to provide the rest. Network businesses have emerged as an organizational paradigm for collaboration and coordination across loosely connected individual organizations. This pragmatic book: Kale reinterprets the traditional supply chain in terms of the flow of decisions, information, and materials, which leads to reconfiguring the traditional supply chain network into mutually separate decision networks (e.g., fourth-party logistics), information networks (e.g., wireless sensor networks), and logistics networks (e.g., third-party logistics). “A highly readable and yet comprehensive book on network businesses that have become governable with the advent of cloud and big data computing. Vivek Kale is a master of simplifying the complex world of network theory and its relevance to business.” Quality Digest does not charge readers for its content. We believe that industry news is important for you to do your job, and Quality Digest supports businesses of all types. However, someone has to pay for this content. And that’s where advertising comes in. Most people consider ads a nuisance, but they do serve a useful function besides allowing media companies to stay afloat. They keep you aware of new products and services relevant to your industry. All ads in Quality Digest apply directly to products and services that most of our readers need. You won’t see automobile or health supplement ads. So please consider turning off your ad blocker for our site. Thanks, CRC Press is a premier global publisher of science, technology, and medical resources. It offers unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery worldwide. Its aim is to broaden thinking and advance understanding in the sciences, providing researchers, academics, professionals, and students with the tools they need to share ideas and realize their potential. CRC Press is a member of Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business.Agile Network Businesses: Collaboration, Coordination, and Competitive Advantage
Reconfigure supply chains and manufacturing systems to meet customer demands
• Introduces network solutions and distributed systems that are a first step toward enabling a network enterprise
• Gives a detailed description of networks and agent systems that have paved the road to network enterprises
• Describes the basics of service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and big data that are essential to network enterprises
• Details the distinguishing aspects of network enterprises, which include virtual enterprises, management of network enterprises, and collaborative network enterprises
• Covers such major application areas as supply, manufacturing, e-business, platform, and social and wireless sensor networks
• Introduces decision networks in the context of supply chain networks
—Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Emory University
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