e-Business processes: information and operations for competitive advantage

With the advent of the ‘new’ economy, and its ‘super-connectivity’ of information breaching the boundaries of time and space, e-Business emerged during the late 1990s as an entirely new business model – sexy, appealing and one from which many organizations sought to capitalize. But the dotcom bubble quickly burst, and with it the aspirations and expectations for e-Business began to return to reality. Part of that new reality is the concern of organizations of all kinds to find ways to use e-Business as an integral component of their business strategy.