The Digitally Connected Renaissance

Joseph A. DiVanna

Chapter Chapter 5 in Thinking Beyond Technology, 2003, pp 173-204 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The eBusiness revolution, heralded by the ever-growing suite of communications technologies, has failed to deliver the quantum change in business operations. This significant shortfall in the delivery of perceived benefits is because of the overhyping of capabilities, a lack of action in addressing business transformation and a lack of a clear value proposition in which the technology would act as an enabler. The overestimation of capabilities, contained in the marketing hype generated by the technology companies and the media, failed to consider the rate at which companies can absorb the organization and procedural changes needed to accommodate the new capabilities that technology presented. Although the technology presented new opportunities for organizations to rethink themselves, the rate at which businesses redefined their internal and external business processes was much slower than the expectations of the customers. In most cases, it was because the investment required to redesign processes was not factored into the timely delivery of benefits. Internet technologies enable an organization to reduce business process latency by reconfiguring not only the processes themselves but the intervals between the process steps. The Internet also enables new distribution capabilities and reinforces communications with customers and suppliers.

Keywords: Business Process; Social Contract; Virtual Organization; Corporate Entity; Internet Pornography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403914491_6

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