||boek: Electronic Data Interchange A Management View|Valerie A. Leyland|BCS Practitioner Series

||taal: en
||jaar: 1993
||druk: ?
||pag.: 166p
||opm.: paperback|like new

||isbn: 0-13-249533-3
||code: 1:002662

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This book begins by making a case for EDI and explaining that EDI is a business, not a technical issue, and so needs senior management involvement. The text explains that the reader will be provided with sufficient technical knowledge to lead EDI decision making. The second part of the book fulfills this promise by equipping the reader with a simple, clear understanding of all the issues and jargon that surround EDI policy formulation.

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This book guides readers through the various decisions--business and technical--that have to be made when developing an EDI policy. It explains that EDI is a business issue, not a technical issue, and requires senior management involvement. Covers all the issues and jargon that surround EDI policy formation.

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Aims to educate and guide the reader through the various decisions, business and technical, that have to be made when developing an EDI policy. The main focus of the book is in the area of trade data interchange, with less focus on electronic funds transfer, graphics and interactive EDI.

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Any senior executive whose company processes and transmits information, internally or externally, needs this book. The book can also be a valuable supplement to upper-class undergraduate or graduate business courses dealing with business strategy, as well as for all information systems (IS) professionals. Even though it covers related technical issues at some length, its primary goal is to educate the senior business decision maker about how to use electronic data interchange (EDI) capabilities and technology as part of the organization's strategy, in order to compete effectively in a global market. I found the book successful in achieving its intended purpose. It is concise and readable. The examples and diagrams make it even more understandable and easy to comprehend. Its brevity and thoroughness make it easy to read even for the busiest senior executive, student, or professor. The book consists of two main parts, two valuable appendices, an excellent glossary, an impressive bibliography, and an effective index. Part 1 consists of three chapters, and Part 2 consists of the remaining five chapters. The objective of Part 1 is to explain what EDI is and how to use it. In the first chapter, the author convincingly explains that EDI is a powerful business tool and must be used within a policy aimed at enhancing the business strategy. In general, companies do not benefit by using technology for its own sake. Companies can benefit from technology when they develop a policy for using it that promotes their overall business strategy. The second chapter presents the fundamentals of EDI technology. The chapter is somewhat technical but clearly written and should be easily understood by senior executives who have had minimal or no exposure to information technology or information systems. In chapter 3, the author describes how to use EDI strategically for the traditional objectives of gaining sustainable competitive advantages. This chapter is good at explaining how to investigate the use of EDI to differentiate a business and even to create and sustain a market niche. Part 2 deals with EDI policymaking issues. It presents a well-thought-out methodology for incorporating EDI into the business policy and making EDI technology the tool that can successfully implement business policy. Chapter 4 prescribes in detail how a company should prepare itself for policymaking that includes EDI as a major facilitator. Chapter 5 explains clearly the types of EDI partnerships that a company can expect to build once it makes EDI part of its policy. Chapter 6 deals well with an ever-changing topic - EDI standards. Instead of listing current standards and advocating some and discarding others, the chapter deals with the issues of EDI standards. The methodical investigation of standards issues that the chapter prescribes transcends current technologies and avoids the trap of chasing technology and making a book obsolete even before it is published. Chapter 7 provides an excellent guide to how to manage the organizational data that are involved in EDI. It provides guidelines for the selection of appropriate systems components for the information system that will engage in EDI. Finally, chapter 8 provides guidelines on what must be considered in controlling the EDI system. The chapter discusses both general controls and specific issues such as security and legal compliance. The first appendix provides a detailed methodology for performing strategic value analysis (SVA) for an organization. As the author explains, "The key concept in SVA is that high-level, strategic business objectives should help define the work done at operational levels in an organization. By using this technique, it should be possible to define specific EDI applications at operational levels that can be seen to support business goals and objectives and so the company's business strategy." The second appendix provides a planning chart for incorporating EDI into the organization in order to support business policy. I found this book extremely informative and useful. It should be part of every business executive's and information systems professional's reading.

Marcos P. Sivitanides [source: https--dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/167688]