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Digital capital : harnessing the power of business webs / Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy.

LIBRA HF5548.32 .T36 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tapscott, Don, 1947-
Contributor:
Lowy, Alex.
Ticoll, David.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Electronic commerce--Economic aspects.
Electronic commerce.
Internet--Economic aspects.
Internet.
World Wide Web--Economic aspects.
World Wide Web.
Information technology--Economic aspects.
Information technology.
Physical Description:
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2000]
Summary:
Punctuating their analysis with a rich set of case studies from Webvan, Schwab, AT&T Solutions, and other companies, the authors provide the definitive guide to business model innovation in the digital economy.
Contents:
Origins xi
1 Value Innovation through Business Webs 3
The MP3 Story 3
Driving Forces of the Digital Economy 5
Disaggregation and Reaggregation of the Firm 7
Popular Approaches to Business-Model Innovation 13
What Is a B-Web? 17
B-Web Corollaries 22
Digital Capital 26
B-Web Taxonomy 28
Part II The New Models of Wealth Creation 37
2 Agoras 39
The Inner Life of Agoras 39
An Agora in Your Future 47
Elements of Agora B-Web Design 50
Digital Business Models 56
Key Success Factors 64
Leader's Guide to Agoras 65
3 Aggregations 67
The Digital Grocer 67
What Do Aggregations Do? 73
Aggregations: Death (and Life) of a Salesman 77
Strategic Points of Leverage 78
Organization 81
Engage Customers to Create Value 88
Key Success Factors 90
Leader's Guide to Aggregations 91
4 Value Chains 93
Cisco: The Quintessential B-Web Leader 93
Value Chains Defined 95
The Crisis of Industrial-Age Value Chains 98
Transforming Value Chains 99
Points of Leverage 102
Value-Chain Technology: Digital Spinning Wheel 112
Key Success Factors 116
Leader's Guide to Value Chains 118
5 Alliances 119
The Open-Source Phenomenon 119
The Power of Alliances 121
Capturing Value from Alliance B-Webs 124
Gift Economies: The Golden Rule 130
Types of Alliances 134
Key Success Factors 139
Leader's Guide to Alliances 140
6 Distributive Networks 143
Networks in Your Life 143
Distributive Networks Defined 145
Industrial-Age Dinosaurs? 146
Distributive Network Effects 150
Digital Distributive Networks 152
B-Web Enablers 162
Key Success Factors 163
Leader's Guide to Distributive Networks 164
Part III The Human and Relationship Elements of Digital Capital 167
7 People: The Human Capital in the Business Web 169
The Molecularization of Human Capital 171
The Inter-Enterprise Human Resource 174
B-Web Culture: Nine Imperatives 175
8 Marketing: Relationship Capital in the Web 189
The Demise of the Four P's 190
The Rise of Relationship Capital 192
Power to the People? 193
The New Practice of Marketing 195
The New Marketing: Eight Imperatives 199
Part IV Strategies for Business Webs 207
9 How Do You Weave a B-Web? 209
Step 1 Describe the Current Value Proposition 211
Step 2 Disaggregate 213
Step 3 Envision B-Web-Enabled Value 218
Step 4 Reaggregate 221
Step 5 Prepare a Value Map 223
Step 6 Do the B-Web Mix 225
Main Messages 228
10 Harvesting Digital Capital 231
Focus on Value 232
Redefine the Boundaries of the Firm 233
Business Models Patents: Yes or No? 241
Digital Capital Begets Market Capital 243
The Power of B-Webs 247.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
ISBN:
1578511933
OCLC:
43481852

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