Web-Weaving
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2007
256 pages
978-1-136-34921-8 (ISBN)
Description
Intranets and Extranets are the fastest growing use of internet technology and are being adopted by a large number of organizations. `Web-Weaving' is a book for managers which illustrates the benefits and pitfalls of using technology to enhance internal and external connections. The book brings together a number of the hottest subjects in IT and Organizational Development using contributions from innovative thinkers and practitioners in both areas.
The first section defines what web-weaving actual is, describing the huge range of communication technology available to organizations at the moment. The second section reviews web-weaving in practice using case studies of companies using intranet and extranet technology. The third section brings together commentaries from leading players in both the IT and Human Resources fields to predict the future of web-weaving and the huge impact it will have on the way organizations and the people within them will work together in the future.
The first section defines what web-weaving actual is, describing the huge range of communication technology available to organizations at the moment. The second section reviews web-weaving in practice using case studies of companies using intranet and extranet technology. The third section brings together commentaries from leading players in both the IT and Human Resources fields to predict the future of web-weaving and the huge impact it will have on the way organizations and the people within them will work together in the future.
Reviews / Votes
' Likely to be of most interest to HR professionals.'People Management
This Book provides a sophisticated & multifaceted vision of the important enabling roles that information technology is likely to play within future knowledge & network-based societies.
The Electronic Library - 8th June 2000
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
8,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-34921-8 (9781136349218)
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Persons
Peter Lloyd, Paula Boyle
Content
Part 1 The Elements of Web-Weaving; Chapter 1, Mellanie Hills; Chapter 2, James Martin; Chapter 3 Organizing knowledge, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid; Chapter 4 The learning organization, Lilly Evans; Chapter 5 The extranet solution; Chapter 6 Electronic commerce: the coming of the perfect market - and how to escape it, David Flint; Chapter 7 Electronic consumerism, Deloitte, Touche; Chapter 8, Frank Abramson, Graham Telford; Chapter 9, Tom Siebel, Michael Malone; Chapter 10 The elusive strategic alliance, Lawrence G. Friedman; Chapter 11, Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps; Chapter 12 Virtual teaming and virtual organizations: twenty-five principles of proven practice, David J. Skyrme; Chapter 13 Transactional communities as organic market systems, Andrea Saveri; Part 2 Web-Weaving in Practice; Chapter 14 Assembling a simple intranet at IPC magazines, James Roberts; Chapter 15 Making an intranet by the book at the British Library, Peter Judge; Chapter 16 Fostering information flow at Parsons Brinckerhoff, John Chow; Chapter 17 Virtual learning at City University Business School, Clive Holtham; Chapter 18 Intra- and extra-netting at the Boeing Company, Anthony H. Kim; Chapter 19, Ernst, Young; Chapter 20, Nada Zdravkovic; Chapter 21 Benefiting on-line alliances with an extranet at Oracle Corporation, Katheryn Potterf; Chapter 22 Electronic commerce at Cisco Systems, Arnaud M. Klineberg; Chapter 23 Reality bytes, Steven B. Weissman; Chapter 24 Improving global communication at Global Office Network, Kevin Tea; Chapter 25 Team syntegrity, Raul Espejo; Chapter 26 Generous networks of productive connections at BrainPool, Isabel Willshaw; Chapter 27 Trading Post: a safe place for champions, Peter Lloyd; Part 3 Web-Weaving - What Next?; Chapter 28, Joel Birnbaum; Chapter 29, Bill Gates; Chapter 30 Realizing the potential of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee; Chapter 31 Changing the organization to meet the needs of networks, Meredith Belbin; Chapter 32, Don Tapscott; Chapter 33 The empowered individual, Michael Wolff; Chapter 34 Tomorrow's company, John McIntyre; Chapter 35 The global village: today and tomorrow, Nelson Thall; Chapter 36 Staying human in a machine-dominated world, Susanna Opper; Chapter 37 Symplectics: weaving world views, Robin Wood;
