TY - GEN AU - Tapscott,Don AU - Ticoll, Davi AU - Lowy, Ale TI - Digital capital: harnessing the power of business webs SN - 1578511933 U1 - 658.84 PY - 2000/// CY - [S.l.] PB - Harvard Business Press KW - Business/Economic KW - Careers & Succes KW - Use Of Computers In Management (Genera KW - Business strateg KW - Information technology industrie KW - Business / Economics / Financ KW - Business & Economic KW - Information Technolog KW - Strategic Plannin KW - Economic aspect KW - Electronic commerc KW - Interne KW - World Wide We KW - Strateg KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Genera KW - Business & Economics / E-Commerce / Genera KW - Business & Economics / Strategic Plannin KW - Computers / Information Technolog KW - E-Commerce - Genera KW - Economics - Genera KW - Marketing - Genera KW - Business network KW - Case studie KW - Computer network resource KW - Desig KW - Managemen KW - Strategic alliances (Busines N1 - Hardcover N2 - The industrial-age corporation is crumbling. The new form of wealth creation is the business web,and the new basis of wealth is digital capital. Schwab, eBay, Cisco, MP3, Linux, and dozens of other companies have transformed the rules of competition in their industries, seemingly overnight. They hijacked long-entrenched industry leaders with revolutionary offerings that surprised and delighted customers. These transformers could not and did not act alone: partners enabled them to move with stealth, speed, agility, and force. Such teams of innovators pioneered the business web, or "b-web", the new platform for competition in the twenty-first century. B-webs partner networks of producers, service providers, suppliers, infrastructure companies, and customers linked via digital channels are destroying the firm as we have known it and generating wealth in entirely new ways. In Digital Capital, information-age visionaries Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy describe and explain the b-web phenomenon and the forces behind its emergence. Drawing on three years of multimillion-dollar research into hundreds of b-webs as diverse as the Microsoft alliance and the automotive industry, the authors illuminate the five distinct types of b-web now in play: Agoras, Aggregations, Value Chains, Alliances, and Distributive Networks. Punctuating their analysis with a rich set of case studies, they provide the definitive guide to business model innovation in the digital economy. The book includes: * The untold real story behind the story on successes like eBay, Cisco, Linux, Schwab, and Priceline * Positioning and analysis of emergent e-businesses like Webvan, OptiMark, AT&T Solutions, and Enron * A step-by-step process for b-web strategy design * A new approach to maximizing organizational effectiveness in a multi-enterprise environment * The "ABCDE's" of marketing—heir to the "four P's" of the industrial age * Guidelines for deciding whether to hire, buy, or partner a needed capability * A new set of lenses for viewing the stock market The authors warn that participation in b-webs is not optional. To encounter and satisfy the digital customer, firms must lead or partner in one or more of these new business networks. While no single path leads to b-web success, businesses will adopt effective b-web strategies-or they will simply fade away. Sustaining advantage in the digital economy demands more than superficial actions like attracting "eyeballs," launching a hot IPO, following "new rules," building a cool Web site, or even just focusing on customers. In Digital Capital we finally have a book that gets beyond whiz-bang clichés to today's central issues of competitive strateg UR - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578511933/chopaconline- UR - http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=15785119 ER -