Anyone with an interest in the way management methodologies and business thinking evolves would agree that the era of e-business, however you define it, is having a huge impact on how companies are run.
One person with such an interest is Professor David Feeny, vice president of Templeton College at Oxford University and director of the Oxford Institute of Information Management. During the past year he has been conducting research into leading established companies in the US, Europe, Singapore and Australia, looking at both the nature of e-business opportunities and the management roles and processes required to capture it.
He has discovered that almost every company, regardless of geography, has accepted the...