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Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Intellegent Enterprises Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:36:33 -0500 From: Jeet Gupta jgupta@BSU.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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Note: a pdf file of the complete announcement of this Call for Book Chapters is also available at the following URL: http://bsuvc.bsu.edu/~jgupta/calliebook.pdf

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century Editors: Jatinder N. D. Gupta1 and Sushil K. Sharma2

Department of Management, Ball State University, Muncie IN 47306, USA 1 (phone: +1 765 2855301, fax: +1 765 2858024, email: jgupta@bsu.edu) 2 (phone: +1 765 2855315, fax: +1 765 2858024, email: ssharma@bsu.edu)

Publisher: Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

Summary:

The e-commerce and Internet's growth is bringing fundamental changes to business models, societies, and economies. With the increasing advancements of information and communication technologies, customers, suppliers, business partners are demanding more from business enterprises. Organizations are exploring new markets, new services and new products in response to forces such as advances in information and communication technologies, business strategies such as mass customization, globalization and shorter production cycles. Enterprises of 21st century need to offer high demand of services and have to increase revenue and productivity through reduced expenditures and a better level of service with fewer resources. In Electronic business environment, organizations are expected to achieve greater profit, reduce overhead and have flexible workflow processes by collaborating business information, partners, and physical resources in a more effective manner. To cope up with these growing and complex requirements, enterprises of tomorrow need new types of specialized tools and advanced services and new advanced approaches to support their business activities. The technologies can be leveraged to create intelligent enterprises which will not only provide better-focused and customized services to customers, but also, create business efficiency for building relationships with suppliers and other business partners on long term basis. The purpose of this book is to bring together some high quality expository discussions from experts in this field to identify, define, and explore the subject matters closely related to the intelligent enterprises. It will include the methodologies, systems, and approaches need to create and manage intelligent enterprises of 21st century. For first time, it will bring all these concepts, tools, and techniques into one volume so that the reader can comprehend the requirements to create an intelligent enterprise. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

Intelligent Enterprises

˜ Emergence of the intelligent enterprise ˜ From enterprise resources planning to intelligent enterprise ˜ The Age of networked intelligence ˜ Requirements of an intelligent enterprise

New Responsibilities of Digital Enterprises

˜ E-Commerce Framework ˜ New electronic business Models and electronic markets ˜ Technologies for Security concerns ˜ Secured infrastructure for electronic business ˜ Privacy in the digital economy ˜ Electronic democracy ˜ Leadership for societal transformation ˜ Business and Leadership for Transformation

Infrastructure for Digital Enterprises

˜ Internets, intranets, and extranets ˜ Wireless Infrastructure for M-Commerce ˜ Architecture for digital enterprises

Technology and Tools for Intelligent Enterprises

« Networks and communication technologies « Mobile and wireless technologies « Intelligent buildings « ERP systems « Database objects « Visual and multimedia databases « Intelligent agents

Learning Organizations

˜ Building Organizational Intelligence ˜ Approaches for creating Learning Organizations ˜ Technological infrastructure for learning organizations

Knowledge Management

˜ The networked knowledge economy ˜ Networking Knowledge globally ˜ Toolkits for Knowledge based enterprises ˜ Future Knowledge organizations ˜ Creating knowledge based systems ˜ Approaches to capture and store knowledge ˜ Developing, transferring and Distributing Knowledge

Managing intelligent enterprises

˜ New Hierarchies and structures for future organizations ˜ Enterprise management systems ˜ From competition to collaboration ˜ Managing collaborative enterprises

Prospective authors of chapters are invited to submit a 4-page proposal by email to the editors at the address given above latest by March 1, 2002.

Schedule for Publication:

TaskDeadline Book chapter proposals receivedMarch 1, 2002 Confirm book chapter authors and topicsMay 15, 2002 Receive full book chaptersSeptember 1, 2002 Review book chapters, and give feedbackOctober 15, 2002 Receive final book chaptersNovember 15, 2002 Final book received by publisherDecember 31, 2002

Best regards,

_________________________________________________________________ Jatinder (Jeet) Gupta, Professor 765-285-5301 (Off) Department of Management 765-747-9105 (Home) Ball State University 765-285-8024 (FAX) Muncie, IN 47306, USA e-mail:jgupta@bsu.edu

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