The real-time enterprise. (©2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dimitris N. Chorafas.
• Other Names: Chorafas, Dimitris N
• Contents: ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; IS A MOVING TARGET; ; Technology and the Real-Time Enterprise; Introduction; Foresight, Insight, and Competitive Advantages; Reinventing the Functions of Management; Knowledge Navigation and the Real-Time Enterprise; Past Breakthroughs, Advanced Knowledge, and Efficiency; ; Strategic Planning, Technology, and Organization; Introduction; A Long, Hard Look Into the Future; Organization, Identification, and Fast Deliverables; Coordination Through Management by Objectives; Strategic Plans Should Account for New Technology's Impact; ; New Trends in Information Technology; Introduction; A Concept of Internet Ecosystem; Trends in Networked Sophisticated Applications; Back to Basics; Miniaturization and Sensing Technology; What Can Be Expected from Smart Dust?; ; What Is Meant by High Tech?; Introduction; Using High Technology for Business Survival; Extending the Current Technology's Frontier; Managing Information as a Product; R&D is Integral Part of High Tech Implementation; High Technology and the Virtual Company; ; STRAIGHT-THROUGH PROCESSING, REALITY ON-LINE, AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ; Straight Through Processing; Introduction; A Practical Example with STP: Continuous Link Settlement; Continuities and Discontinuities: in STP Implementation; Exception Handling and Straight Through Processing; Connecting STP to Enterprise Resources Planning; Cost and Benefit with Straight Through Processing; ; Reality Online as an Integrative Solution; Introduction; System Design for Reality Online; Reality Online, and Smart Cars; System Integration by the Swiss Customs Authority. A Case Study; Prerequisites for and Payoffs from System Integration; Likely Social Impact of Reality Online; ; Executive Information Systems; Introduction; Concepts Underpinning Executive Information Systems; Executive Information System Examples with BNP Paribas and; Wal- Mart; A Corporate Memory Facility. Case Study with Magellan; The Important Role of Visualization in Executive Information Systems; A Well-Designed EIS Is Always User-Centered. A Case Study; ; Client Information Systems; Introduction; The New Age of Retail; Prerequisites to the Design of a Client Information System; MIT's Virtual Customer and Accenture's Virtual Double; Implementing the Client Mirror; Using Customer Relationship Management Software; ; CASE STUDIES WITH REAL-TIME ENTERPRISES; ; Real-Time Applications in the Banking Industry; Introduction; A 21st Century IT Solution for a Commercial Bank; Real-Time and Realspace Applications by Top Tier Institutions; Bankers Trust: Repositioning in Right Side of Balance Sheet; Use of Expert Systems by the Deutsche Bundesbank; Taking an Integrated View of EIS and CIS; ; Real-Time Treasury Operations; Introduction; Pillars of Treasury Control. A Case Study; A Closer Look Into Assets and Liabilities Management; Crisis of Fund Management. A Case Study; Benefits from an A&L Acid Test; Challenges with Home-Host Financial Reporting; ; Real-Time Risk Management; Introduction; Organization, Technology, and Enterprise Risk Management; Uncertainties Connected to Credit Risk; Uncertainties Resulting from Market Risk; The Real-time Evaluation of Gains and Losses; Isaac Newton's Policy for Effective Control; ; Implementing Realspace Solutions to Replace Office; Automation; Introduction; Office Automation Must Be Upgraded with Real-Time Technology; Case Study on the Revamping of Office Automation; Cultural Change is Inevitable, No Matter Which Is the New System; Advanced Solutions Rest on Re-Engineered Real-Time Applications; Offshoring the Back Office and Real-Time Connectivity; ; PREREQUISITES TO REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS; ; Business Architecture for a Real-Time Enterprise; Introduction; Designing a Business Architecture to Promote Client Focus and; Innovation; Challenges a Business Architecture Must Overcome; The Interim Business Architecture of a Money Center Bank. A Case; Study; Converging Towards Implementation of a Realspace Environment. A; Case Study; ; Data Mining Anywhere, at Any Time, on Any Subject; Introduction; End Users and the Need for Real-Time Databases; Increasing Return on IT Investments through Data Mining; Improving the Sophistication of Interactive Database Access; Database Solutions and Quality of Service; ; Case Studies on Internet-Intrinsic Models; Introduction; Internet Technology Towards 2010; Internet-Intrinsic Business Models; Case Studies on Internet Use in Retail Banking; Rethinking the Horizon of Internet Retail Banking Services; Internet and the Securities Industry; ; End-to-End Deliverables through Internet Ecosystems; Introduction; End-to-End on the Internet; Time and Its Challenges; Virtue Is Knowledge Which Cannot Be Taught; Learning How to Do Internet Ecosystem Studies; Deliverables for the SMEs and the Virus Threat; Who Can Make Money on the Internet?; ; Business Continuity and Contingency Planning; Introduction; Management of Business Continuity and the Terrorist Threats; Learning a Lesson from the Law of Unexpected Consequences; Operational Risk Control, Contingency Planning, and Disaster; Recovery; Controlling the Company's Cost Structure through Technology
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Fla : Auerbach Publications
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 345 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658/.05; Real-time data processing -- Management; Business -- Data processing -- Management; Information technology -- Management; Real-time control; Business enterprises -- Technological innovations; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; Business -- Data processing -- Management; Business enterprises -- Technological innovations; Information technology -- Management; Real-time control; Real-time data processing -- Management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203337166; 9780203337165; 9780849327773; 0849327776
• Related ISBNs: 0849327776
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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