M-Business: The Race to Mobility

The definitive guide for the coming M-commerce age"Invaluable insight into the mobile economy. Kalakota and Robinson get right to the core of the emerging mobile landscape. . . . A must read."Patricia Seybold, author of Customers.com and The Customer RevolutionKnowing a change is coming is one thing; predicting its exact shape and form is something else entirely. In m-Business, renowned Web visionary Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson succeed at both, exploring mobile commerce and providing the definitive roadmap for strategic business decisions in a world transformed by mobility.From innovative business models and next-generation applications to customer experience creation and leadership initiatives, this book provides cogent, convincing analysis of the products and knowledge that business leaders will need to thrive in the new M-commerce arena.The first book to clearly explain the M-commerce revolution in the language of a broad business audience, m-Business provides a simple three-step plan for navigating the mobile minefield more quickly than competitors. Readers get comprehensive coverage and insights on topics including:Emerging business trendsconsumer, service, enterprise applications, and infrastructure New business modelslocation-based models, real-time supply chain models, enterprise extension models, and voice portals New solution enablersmobile platforms, voice platforms, wireless application service providers (WASP), and mobile application

Business & Money

Kalakota, Ravi

Robinson, Marcia

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Surveys how some successful companies have redesigned their structure and practices to do business on the Internet, and glean from them fundamental design principles for building an electronic business blueprint. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

E-Business: Roadmap for Success (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)

Computers & Technology

Internet & Social Media

Addison-Wesley

e-Business: Roadmap for Success (custom paperback edition)

Business Technology

Revolutions begin with attacks on the language. Todays managers are bombarded with an alphabet soup of technology acronyms such as CRM, ERP, and SCM. Managers must manage in the fog of this technology revolution. Kalakota and Robinsons book provides a lens for managers who want to understand the terminology and take action--to grasp the opportunities or defend against the invading virtual competitors. When the history of e-business is written--perhaps sooner than we think--this book will go down as a management landmark that helped clear the fog of mumbo jumbo and provided a beacon through which managers could chart their course. --Michael Quinn, eStrategy Director, B2B Commerce Ltd. To survive and succeed in todays complex business world, all companies--from established industry leaders to feisty upstarts--must develop a strategy that allows them to take maximum advantage of the latest trends in technology. Successful companies have implemented focused e-business strategies to build cutting-edge enterprises that serve and retain customers, manage suppliers, and integrate selling chains better than ever before. Others, unfortunately, are lured into ill-fated ventures by the ever-ch

E-Business 2.0: Roadmap for Success

Addison-Wesley Professional

Something radical is happening to corporate organizational structures, something subtle yet far-reaching in impact. It is the rapid emergence of offshore outsourcing as a corporate strategy. Cost reduction, productivity improvement, and cheaper labor - these are the promises of offshore outsourcing. This book reveals how GE, American Express, Dell, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, BellSouth, British Telecom, and numerous other companies are successfully using offshore outsourcing to reduce costs associated with IT, customer care, finance and accounting, human resources, and transaction processing. 
Offshore Outsourcing: Business Models, ROI, and Best Practices is a comprehensive guide to the real-world application of offshore outsourcing across all industries. Authors Marcia Robinson and Dr. Ravi Kalakota give you an in-depth analysis of offshore outsourcing. They discuss what is behind this trend, how it is paying off, and, most importantly, provide you with a step-by-step guide on how you can implement your own offshore strategy. 
Based on extensive research and interviews, this book offers insight into how managers of leading firms are implementing offshore outsourcing. You will find plenty of practical tips and tools to apply offshore outsourcing in a wide variety of business environments. 
Offshore Outsourcing is organized in three easy-to-read sections: 
Part One introduces the value proposition of offshore outsourcing, including fundamental concepts, the different business models, and the business process landscape. 
Part Two examines the specifics of the processes being offshored today, namely information technology, customer care, finance and accounting, human resources, and transaction processing. 
Part Three describes the major activities of the offshore strategy, vendor sourcing, and country selection. 
Robinson and Kalakota include multiple best-practice case studies to illustrate how firms are executing their offshore strategies. The authors map out key steps to help you make the right choices with your own offshore projects and reveal the benefits, costs, and risks of offshore outsourcing. Finally, it’s your choice. Offshore outsourcing can be a haphazard affair that creates anxiety among employees and fails to deliver bottom-line results. Or, with this book at your side, it can help you create a more focused, streamlined, and competitive organization.

Offshore Outsourcing: Business Models, ROI and Best Practices

Mivar Press, Inc.

Global outsourcing is defined as the seamless integration of onsite, onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery teams. It is rapidly becoming the execution and delivery strategy of choice for business process and IT projects in corporations today. 
This book goes beyond the theory to explain the step-by-step methodology managers should follow to execute a global outsourcing strategy. Designed as an implementation manual, Global Outsourcing discusses the detailed tasks involved in the planning, sourcing, and execution phases of every project. 
Written in a concise, how-to format and packed with sample checklists, data gathering questionnaires (RFI and RFP), and contracts (MSA and SLA), Global Outsourcing provides project leaders and team members with the information they need, including: 
- Complete guidelines for implementing a global outsourcing roadmap. - Detailed tutorials on each phase of project management, from planning and sourcing to governance and performance audits. - Multiple tips on how to overcome the challenges of global outsourcing with the ever-present pressure for speed and cost containment. 
Globalization is here to stay. New communication infrastructure and Web-based software applications are combining with process automation and the abundance of talent in low-cost labor markets to create an unprecedented opportunity for changing the way business is done.

Global Outsourcing: Executing an Onshore, Nearshore or Offshore Strategy

Sharma, Suresh

Human Resources

Inside Out explains how hurts, pains and stresses of life impact the natural rhythm of the body with imbalanced chemical and hormonal changes. Such changes inside our bodies manifest themselves outwardly with an array of illnesses and diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, lupus, erectile dysfunction, fibroids and a host of others. Inside Out shows us how to release emotional and physical strongholds and move forward with the healthy lives we were destined to have.

Inside Out: Your Body Is Talking

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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