This is a terrific book. As you will know from my post  the other day, I am currently writing a book chapter on risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs), and I have used The Networked Enterprise by Ken Thompson as what I would call THE reference on how to manage VENs. The goal of a VEN is to connect Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into peer networks, supported by appropriate collaboration practices and technologies, to give them the capabilities and competitive advantages of large global enterprises. How is this possible?

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