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Bubbles and Trends
Dot-com companies will continue to be both the leading and the bleeding edge of business. Although 80%-90% of these companies may not prove economically viable, the survivors will change business forever. Organizations that view the dot-com failures as the failure of e-business in general and as a rationale to return to "business as usual" will suffer accordingly.
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E-Business Drivers
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Collaboration: A Holistic Approach to Empowering Teams
From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
Col·lab·o·rate
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Collaboration: A Holistic Approach to Empowering Teams
Experts estimate the typical manager spends four-fifths of the day communicating with others.1 The question is, are the people talking with each other or at each other? More and more, vendors and businesses are promoting collaboration, but collaboration is a word used to mean many things in business today.
Phil Knight -- of Nike's oft quoted public utterance, "This is what I get for $400 million?" -- has become the poster child for highlighting the difficulty of implementing supply chain technologies.
XML
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged as the middleware approach of choice for companies that want to create distributed applications (Web services) on the Internet. By itself, XML provides a message format. In the past year, XML has been supplemented by a variety of protocols that extend its power. XML's tag description facility has been extended with XML script to make it easier to describe complex data formats. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has been widely adopted to provide a transport mechanism.