Open Process Frameworks: Patterns For The Adaptive Eenterprise

This excellent book offers a discussion of ebusiness, eprocess and ecommerce design, from the standpoint of business adaptability and durability. It defines and maps their complex interrelationships, as well as providing guidance on conducting eprojects.Written from the standpoint of business adaptability and durability, this unique resource offers proven principles for successful ebusiness, eprocess, and ecommerce initiatives, applications and projects. Marca shares with us the principles that have most helped his customers create substantial value, returnoninvestment, and endcustomer benefits.This guidebook provides unique insights for using the Internet to dramatically improve business processes and complex supply chains. It shows process engineers how to translate business processes into Web pages and then link those Web pages to ecommerce applications. It also gives software designers proven methods for developing ebusiness and ecommerce applications. And it provides project managers with valuable heuristics for realizing successful ebusiness and ecommerce initiatives.David Marca is a Lead Faculty member at the University of Phoenix, Greater Boston Campus, where he teaches Business and Technology Management courses. He is a highly regarded authority and instructor in the field of ebusiness. In this book, Marca views the Internet as a process medium, and by taking this view he lets us see how the Internet enables a business to readily adapt to changing forces. Marca leverages the concept of open systems to develop the concept of open processes, which provides a conceptual framework to describe the structure of a business. This allows an ebusiness owner to describe how the company operates in terms of building blocks which support adaptable and optimized Internetbased solutions.A comprehensive and accessible guide that brings together concept, architecture, technology, and implementation in realworld terms, Open Process Frameworks is a cuttingedge resource for today's ebusiness and its underpinnings.Contents: eBusiness; eProcess; eCommerce; eProject