E-Transforming Your Business?

Date: 12/13/99 9:06:09 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: alert@daily.informationweek.com (InformationWeek Alert)
To: cgdevries@aol.com (Chris de Vries)

E-business is transforming the way business is conducted. InformationWeek highlights and analyzes this trend in a special three-part package in our latest issue.

In business, there's little doubt that 1999 will be remembered as the year in which virtually every large company got serious about E-business. By any measure--the level of management commitment, the redirection of human resources, or the focus of new IT investments -- E-business has soared to the top of the corporate priority list. That means E-business is no longer a question of whether, but how. In the past six months, favored models and approaches to E-business have emerged, according to new data from a survey conducted by InformationWeek Research. InformationWeek explores those approaches and examines the ramifications for companies of all sizes. http://www.informationweek.com/765/transform.htm

Not too long ago, just having a home page meant a company was Internet savvy. But the rise of commercial Web sites, intranets, and extranets as critical business tools is creating a new E-business economy. The leaders include companies that were early to recognize the Web's potential and other newer ventures that exist because of the Internet.

InformationWeek found the most innovative practitioners of electronic business and put together a first-ever ranking of the top 100 E-businesses. Companies making the list range from old blue chippers to newer powerhouses to companies that didn't even exist a year ago.

E-Business 100 companies are aggressive in linking customers, suppliers, business partners, and employees via the Internet, and they are using Web sites to handle sales transactions and provide customer service, intranets and enterprise data portals to link employees and give them more access to data, and extranets to improve the flow of information to and from business partners. http://www.informationweek.com/765/ebiz.htm

Electronic business is transforming the American corporation in profound ways. New data from InformationWeek Research gives you a ringside seat to all the action thanks to an ongoing study that examines how E-business is transforming five key industries in the networked economy.

InformationWeek's E-Business Agenda Study, Wave 2, spotlights the proliferation of new E-business models and provides insight into other concerns, such as sources of E-business revenue and the distribution of products and services. The 50-page study of 375 business and IT managers contains 65 research charts and is available online at http://www.informationweek.com/reports.