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Useful Books for Virtual Enterprise Networks

Published. Not perished.

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Revised on: 2015-11-23

Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, edited by Stavros Ponis, aims to serve as a point-of-reference for scholars and researchers who are interested in studying Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion, linking Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management. I am proud to be able to contribute of this attempt at cross-fertilization between three distinctively different, yet highly interconnected fields of research.

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The Definition of Agility

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Revised on: 2015-09-11

Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, written in 1992  by H T (Ted) Goranson, is a book that still holds timeless ideas and visions that are still applicable.  While the at that time emerging vision of  the virtual enterprise is at the forefront of the book, it is also the only reference I have found that properly differentiates between agility and flexibility and what being agile actually entails. This blog has previously reported profusely on flexibility, let alone resilience and robustness, but has severely neglected agility. With this post, I intend to take a closer look at what it means to be agile.

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Book Review: Virtual Teams

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Revised on: 2015-09-18

This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my book chapter on managing risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks, something that seems to have caused a barrage of seemingly never-ending book reviews on this blog.  In The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries, Jill Nemiro and her co-editors have put together a 764-page monster of a book. It’s not a handbook, it’s a handbrick.

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Enterprise-wide Risk Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-15

Coming from a crisis management and business continuity background, I really enjoyed reading Enterprise-wide Risk Management: Strategies for linking risk and opportunity by DeLoach has a refreshing new approach to risk management that is is cross-functional, integrated and adaptable in the face of constant change, simply because traditional risk management approaches are no longer adequate in today’s rapidly changing world in where traditional risk management is too fragmented and function-driven.

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Book Review: Cooperative Strategy

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Cooperative strategy is the attempt by organizations to realize their objectives through cooperation rather than in competition with them, focusing on the benefits of cooperation. I used Cooperative Strategy in preparing for my book chapter on risks in virtual enterprise networks, where two chapters in this book were particularly useful: Networks (Chapter 8) and Virtual Corporations (Chapter 9). My review focuses on these two chapters. I did browse the other chapters in the book, although I did not read them as intensively as chapter 8 and 9, which obviously were the chapters I read most.

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Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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Revised on: 2015-10-03

Done…I finally made it! Today I submitted my full chapter for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles. All I can do now is anxiously await the reviewers’ verdict. Followers of this blog will already have noticed some of my posts on Virtual Enterprise Networks, and wonder why I am suddenly deviating (albeit only slightly) from the main thrust of my blog, namely supply chain risk and transportation.

 

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Jumpstart your VEN adventure

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Revised on: 2011-03-06

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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Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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Revised on: 2011-07-06

Today’s unstable and highly competitive business environment has created a shift in how enterprises are established and managed, where past “traditional” enterprises are replaced by new “virtual” enterprises, forming temporary networks of independent companies or Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs) that  share skills, costs and access to each other’s market. I am currently writing a book chapter for the book Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, which is about risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs), and here are some the ideas that have come to my mind when trying to connect risks in supply chains with risks in VENs.

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