By Ravi Kalakota
This publication offers an outstanding origin for what IBM is asking "Services technological know-how" and SAP "Business approach Platforms."
The easy argument is if you're pondering "outside-in" approximately making a customer-centric company you then have to take into consideration prone. shoppers purchase prone.
Making the linkage among providers that buyers (or staff) use and the enterprise strategies that businesses really automate utilizing firm purposes is the basic contribution of this publication. The authors use a variety of case reports to demonstrate how services-centric company pass approximately architecting their blueprints.
Highly suggest this booklet for someone who's attracted to comprehend the structure of a providers pushed business.
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8 billion. 10. Source: Wal-Mart's 2002 annual report. 11. "Associates Viewed 'As Merchants First'," Chain Drug Review, July 22, 2002, no. 12, vol. 24; p. 87. 12. Source: same as note 10. 13. Brian Deagon, "Kmart Misses Mark," Investor's Business Daily, April 25, 2002. See also Carol Sliwa, "IT Difficulties Help Take Kmart Down," Computerworld, January 28, 2002. 14. Based on IDC's September 2002 forecast, annual IT spending worldwide for 2002 2004 will be approximately $1 trillion. 15. Jennifer Baljko Shah, "Agilent's ERP Rollout Hits Expensive Glitches," Electronic Buyer's News, August 26, 2002.
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