E-Business

The wireless Web will turn out to be bigger than the wired one; moreover, the wireless Web revolution will happen faster than the wired (current) version of the Internet.

Q: What do Nokia, Ericsson, and DoCoMo have in common?

E-Business

The wireless Web will turn out to be bigger than the wired one; moreover, the wireless Web revolution will happen faster than the wired (current) version of the Internet.

Q: What do Nokia, Ericsson, and DoCoMo have in common?

Figure 1 -- How would you describe the overall quality of the data in your company?

Figure 1 -- How would you describe the overall quality of the data in your company?

A colleague of mine tells a funny story about interviewing for a job with Sun Microsystems when she was nearing completion of her MBA at Stanford University, California, USA. It was the mid-1980s. Sun was an exciting young company operating in the shadow of larger rivals such as Apollo and Computervision (remember them?).

I've been playing around with an idea for several months in conjunction with a new book I am working on. In effect, I thought about extending the popular "patterns" approach to provide a way to help business managers think about the kinds of changes they could make in their organizations. A lot of companies are thinking about transitioning to e-business models.

How can we facilitate cross-media e-business and utilize next-generation e-services to empower virtual channels that target wireless initiatives? The challenge of engineering global solutions is to innovate end-to-end metrics that target mission-critical applications to develop the organization's killer portals.

How can we facilitate cross-media e-business and utilize next-generation e-services to empower virtual channels that target wireless initiatives? The challenge of engineering global solutions is to innovate end-to-end metrics that target mission-critical applications to develop the organization's killer portals.

My experience building and deploying e-business applications over the past two years has been quite frustrating. Proof of concept evolves rapidly into a pilot project, and before you know it, you are supporting a prototype application in production mode, interacting with back-end transactional systems.

In Business Week this week, I read of a gentleman who traded stock with E*Trade. On the side, he sold an older computer via Yahoo! Classifieds. The sale went quickly and he got a bank- certified check for his computer. Unfortunately, the check was a phony, written by a cybercrook that the FBI was after. The gentleman didn't know any of this and deposited the certified check into his E*Trade account.