The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time with the Revolutionary Business SEx Machine Book

Foreword by Dr. Max More
  What is it and where is it coming from?
  What is driving the real-time enterprise?
  Strategizing for the real-time advantage
 

1. The Real-Time Enterprise in Twenty Minutes
  Operational Transformation:
  The Next Source of Competitive Advantage 

2. Competing On Time
  A Final Lesson from Nature 

3. How Work Works in Business
  The Internet and Strategy Execution
  The Work Processor and the Strategy-Execution Machine 

4. What Do "BPM" and "RTE" Actually Mean?
  What Does Real Time Actually Mean?
  So Simple, Yet So hard
  The Real Real-Time Enterprise Defined 

5. Making Profits Out of Thin Air
  "It s Not the Economy, Stupid" 

6. The Globalization of White-Collar Work

  7. From Science Fiction to Ubiquitous Computing
  The Return of the Business Document
  From Here to the New Way of Competing 

8. The Many Facets of The Real-Time Enterprise
  Supply and Demand Equilibrium
  The Double Leverage of Self-Service
  Technology Architecture for Systems-of-Process
  From Integration to Real-Time Collaboration
  The Value Chain as a Flock
  Lessons From GE
  Putting it All Together 

9. The Event-Driven Company
  Complex Event Processing and Business Activity Monitoring
  Getting There 

10. Cycle-Time Management
  Putting It All Together 

11. Thoughts and Strategies for the Real-Time Enterprise
  Planning, Strategy and Methods
  What to Think and Do Next Monday Morning:
Incremental Change
  People and Culture: The Critical Success Factors 

Appendix A.
  The Myths and Realities of the Real-Time Enterprise 

Appendix B.
Cycle-Time Management: A Survey of Six Industries
  If You Can t Measure It, You Can t Improve It
  The Automobile Industry and The 12-Day Car
  Insurance
  Banking and Finance
  High Technology
  Apparel
  Consumer Packaged Goods
 

Index