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Title: X-Automation of the Firm by Paul Gromball, Eberhard Aust, Wolfe W. Diener, Partha S. Ghosh, Kevin Mellyn ISBN: 3-932213-07-6 Publisher: Oliver Lüth Verlag Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $49.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A really pragmatic framework how to save for your company
Comment: X-Automation of the firm is the the best book I have read about e-enabling your business. Why did they not publish it before netgain and the other crap that made us all lose our savings on the stock market and implement non funcitonal solution from Commerce One and Ariba.

I liked most the case studies because they show the deep expertise of the authors in real applications of internet technologies to optimize processes across companies and create better working markets for complex goods. Has your company's ebusiness strategy saved your company alread more than $ 100 Mio? If not this book is a definite must to read. Strongly recommended

Rating: 4
Summary: Clear Vision of the Future
Comment: X-Automation of the Firm is an extremely concisely written book that gives some groundbreaking insights into the implications web-technologies are going to have on the way companies collaborate. The key theme of the book is cross automation in all its dimensions and how value can be created by not optimizing each company seperately but rather optimizing across markets and the value chain. I was thrilled to see what companies are already doing today. Would you have though that you can buy an SAP implementation over the internet and save more than 50% on consulting fees, hardware and the rest and receive a clean fixed price offer? This is really groundbreaking stuff.

Rating: 5
Summary: A groundbreaking perspective
Comment: Despite some initial scepticism about book dedicated to the internet, I liked the cover so much that I somewhat had to open it. The introduction directly grabbed my attention. What really struck me as being pretty innovative was seeing the cross automation between companies in perspective with the industrial revolutions, the automation of the factory and the office automation. Also railroad building and the automotive industry came off to a pretty bumpy start. I think we should all see that when we are looking on the internet revolution.

The book is build out of pretty self contained chapters. As pretty innovative I perceived particularily chapter 6 about allgingin SRM and CRM and chapter 7 about the implications on the financial system. A great read.