Mastering Digital Business

This strategic guide for business and IT executives focuses on how today's most disruptive technologies can be applied in powerful combinations along with platform business models, mastery of digital services, and leading practices in corporate innovation, to help you develop and execute your digital strategies for competitive advantage.

Nagy Hanna presents a systematic approach to integrate ICT into development policies and programs across sectors of economy and society. This book bridges the current disconnect between the ICT specialists and their development counterparts in various sectors so as to harness the ongoing ICT revolution to maximize development impact.

e-Business – business collaborations enabled through information and communication technologies – is an essential activity for any business organization and constitutes a significant and growing sector. This textbook presents an innovative teaching framework to help students gain a thorough understanding of the principles of this vital aspect of business and management. Casting aside the over-complicated and narrow introductions of other textbooks, Grefen presents, analyzes and explains the principles of e-Business with refreshing clarity. The book covers both the business and technology aspects of this topic, using a unique framework integrating: Business – focuses on why a specific e-Business scenario exists and how an organization can profit from it Organization – analyzes how organizations and their processes are structured to achieve strategic goals Architecture – explains the high level design of advanced information systems to describe how e-Business functions Technology – examines the technological implementation of e-Business scenarios using a wide variety of ingredients from IT Mastering e-Business offers a well-structured overview of all aspects of e-Business and is an essential read for all students and professionals interested in this central aspect of modern, global business.

This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, aiming to share first-hand insights from renowned organizations and to make digitalization tangible. With all economic and societal sectors being challenged by emerging technologies, the digital economy is highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It confronts established organizations with substantial challenges and opportunities. Against this backdrop, this book reports on best practices and lessons learned from organizations that succeeded in tackling the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the digital economy. It illustrates how twenty organizations leveraged their capabilities to create disruptive innovation, to develop digital business models, and to digitally transform themselves. These cases stem from various industries (e.g. automotive, insurance, consulting, and public services) and countries, covering the many facets that digitalization may have. As all case descriptions follow a unified template, they are easily accessible for readers and provide insightful examples for practitioners as well as interesting cases for researchers, teachers, and students. Almost every organization is trying to figure out how best to respond to the opportunities and threats posed by digitalization. This book provides valuable lessons from those organizations that have already begun their digital transformation journey. Michael D. Myers, Professor of Information Systems, University of Auckland Digitalization Cases provides firsthand insights into the efforts of renowned companies. The presented actions, results, and lessons learned are a great inspiration for managers, students, and academics. This book gives real pointers on the how and where to start. Anna Kopp, Head of IT Germany, Microsoft The cases compiled in the second volume of Digitalization Cases show how disruption can actively be managed. Further, long-term insights from extended success stories of the first edition highlight that courage to change pays off well. This book represents a motivation for organizations to drive their digital transformation journeys actively. Markus Richter, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Germany

Steffen Damborg, the name needs no introduction in the area of digital transformation. For over 20 years, Steffen has worked as a C-level executive with a compressive understanding of how well-established companies function. His passion is to help legacy companies transform via the development and execution of sustainable digital strategies that are based on digital leadership. The book Mastering Digital Transformation extracts from numerous cases of successful digital corporations such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Tesla and what it takes to transform legacy companies into the digital age. To go from doing digital to being truly digital companies, the author advocates: - Organisational commitment towards digital strategy adoption and implementation - Promotion of experimentation based on concrete and tangible data - Adoption of a cross-functional and agile approach to disruptive innovation - Keeping the organisational strategies fresh by constant adaptation to digital innovations, embracing and preparing for changes in competition, and making necessary changes on the organisation-wide scale for the shifts in market trends This book is an acumen of his knowledge, professional expertise, and experiences and serves to promote a new narrative of digital transformation. It empowers professionals, strategists, managers, board members, directors, C-level executives, and legacy companies to overcome the challenges they face in their journey to digital transformation. Mr. Damborg holds an MBA degree from Aarhus School of Business and a MSc degree in political science from Heidelberg University/Aarhus University. In 2016 Steffen Damborg was appointed Media & Entertainment Group Discussion Leader at Harvard Business School.

Mastering Digital Marketing: Maximizing Your Marketing Strategy to Reach Ideal clients is the ideal guide for you if you are just about to bring your business into the digital age. The book explains the effectiveness of marketing your business online and covers all aspects of the perfect digital marketing strategy. This book explains how we did it, and how you can do it too. You'll Learn:* How to bring your business into the digital age easily and effectively. You will also gain a deeper insight into why marketing your business online is essential to your success.* How to identify your target audience, build trust, the power of testimonials, establishing credibility, building relationships, and how to write the perfect call-to-action.* How to view your business in a different way. The tips in the book will enable you to elevate your brand to where you want it to be.* How to develop the perfect online marketing strategy. You will become adept at combining your traditional marketing strategy with your new online strategy for fantastic results.About the AuthorMichael Cohn founded CompuKol Communications to help small businesses and entrepreneurs increase their visibility, reputation, trustworthiness and credibility online. At CompuKol Michael consults, creates, and implements communication strategies for small businesses to monopolize their markets with a unique business voice, vision, and visibility. Michael has over 30 years of experience in IT and web technologies. His expertise includes social media marketing strategies; Internet marketing; web presence design; business analysis; project management; management of global cross-matrix teams; systems engineering and analysis, architecture, prototyping and integration; technology evaluation and assessment; systems development; performance evaluation; and management of off-shore development.

Google. Amazon. Facebook. There are plenty of webtastic success stories out there, but there are also millions of companies, web sites and internet experiments floundering in cyberspace. Why should some race to glory whilst others fail to finish? Mastering Web 2.0 will help anyone, from the individual entrepreneur to organizations of any size, make sense of the confusing array of marketing options the internet has to offer. The Web is a very fragmented place, but Susan Rice Lincoln, an online branding and communications expert, pulls all the strands together to help you to make informed decisions and create an intelligent, holistic marketing strategy. She investigates the new tools of the web 2.0 world such as blogging, video casting, article and e-mail marketing, social media, search engine optimization, viral marketing and podcasts, describing how to put them all to good use, or select the most appropriate one for you. Mastering Web 2.0 is not for techies or utopian visionaries - it's a book for the rest of us. It will help you to strip away the hype and fully grasp the powerful possibilities the internet has in store for you.

Surf the waves of change. We are no longer an economy of products and services. The digital transformation demands that we focus our attention on experiences and outcomes. Business leaders and their organizations must shift to keeping promises—no matter how their customers interact with them. But organizations no longer control the conversation. In this era of social and mobile technology, customers, employees, suppliers, and partners are in direct communication with one another. Those personal networks and the brands they’re passionate about influence their decision making and their spending. The workforce has changed too. Employees expect to be able to determine when and how they will work, the technology they’ll use, and the values their company will espouse. Organizations can take part in this conversation only if they recognize how and where it’s happening. Resisting these changes will leave executives, managers, and their companies powerless. Organizations must pivot with and ahead of these social, organizational, and technological shifts or risk being left behind. Technology guru Ray Wang shows how organizations can surf the waves of change—how they can keep their promises. Current trends, when taken seriously, require a new way of thinking about business that includes five key areas: 1. Consumerization of technology and the new C-suite 2. Data’s influence in driving decisions 3. Digital marketing transformation 4. The future of work 5. Matrix commerce Digital disruption has changed how we do our work. But by mastering these trends you’ll delight your customers with every interaction.