The vision of the networked enterprise is now a reality. This cutting-edge book illustrates how to implement a new breakthrough business process management (BPM) technology that will change the competitive business landscape. BPM gives businesses the means to manage processes across systems, people, and organizations, providing visibility and control over each instance of those processes right across the supply chain network. Key features include: -Supplies concrete examples of how BPM technology has helped firms of varying size in industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace, banking, consumer products, defense, healthcare, industrial products, insurance, manufacturing, and retailing -Discusses the role of BPM technology in providing visibility and control over business processes that span systems, people, and linked businesses -Provides a practical guide for transforming a company from a stand-alone supply chain entity to a member of a flexible network with a market adv… More >>

The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demands

The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats, such as identity theft, computer viruses, and cyberattacks. Moreover, because cybercrimes are often not limited to a single site or nation, crime scenes themselves have changed. Consequently, law enforcement must confront these new dangers and embrace novel methods of prevention, as well as produce new tools for digital surveillance—which can jeopardize privacy and civil liberties.Cybercrime brings together leading experts in law, criminal justice, and security studies to describe crime prevention and security protection in the electronic age. Ranging from new government requirements that facilitate spying to new methods of digital proof, the book is essential to understand how criminal law—and even crime itself—have been transformed in our networked world.Contributors: Jack M. Balkin, Susan W. Brenner, Daniel E. Geer, Jr., James Grimmelmann, Emily Hancock, Beryl A. Ho… More >>

Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment

A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation’s first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice. In the first book to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, English and American Tool Builders, David R. Meyer examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy…. More >>

Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

Terrorist organizations use many technologies as they plan and stage attacks. This book explores the purpose and manner of the use of communication and computer technologies, their net effect, and security forces’ possible responses. The authors conclude that, instead of developing direct counters to these technologies, exploiting their use and the information they manage to enable more direct security force operations is a more promising option…. More >>

Network Technologies for Networked Terrorists: Assessing the Value of Information and Communication Technologies to Modern Terrorist Organizations