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In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant goes beyond business and industrial methodology books published in the past, conceiving of the entire chain of production from order to delivery as a single, living organism with distinct, but wholly interdependent parts.

Mesh Collaboration: Creating New Business Value in the Network of Everything uses the technique of explanatory fiction to demonstrate how companies can thrive in what has become a very fast moving, ultra-competitive, globalized world.

SAP GRC for Dummies explains the issues surrounding governance, risk, and compliance in the classic Dummies style.

Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual tells the tale of Vorpal Inc., a company that pioneers the implementation of service-oriented architecture to transform its business model. CEO Jane Moneymaker believes in marketing manager Hugo Wunderkind's idea of creating a new market using non-traditional methods based on mashups, but struggles to achieve this vision. The story illustrates what it takes to achieve cultural change, overturning established business and IT structures. By embracing a service-oriented approach Moneymaker makes Vorpal faster, flexible, and more responsive, bringing an end to business as usual.

This book addresses a crisis of communication so entrenched and intractable that many people cease to notice it any more. When business and Information Technology people sit down at a table to solve problems and build new solutions, the outcome is rarely pretty and often the process can be downright unpleasant. This book explains how to bridge the gap, so that comprehensive communication leads to better solutions.

In May of 2007, SAP hosted the second International Research Forum in Eltville, Germany, bringing together leading thinkers from academia, business, and government. International Research Forum 2007 captures the insights and advances the research agenda that emerged from this conference, covering Enterprise 2.0, The Service Grid, User-Driven Innovation, and Business Model Transformtion.

Based on the proceedings of the 2006 International Research Forum, this book explores four key issues facing those who apply information and communications technology to help people work together. These four issues are: Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, IT security, real-world awareness, and IT as a tool for growth and development.

So you want to wiki? This friendly guide gets you up and running in the wiki world in no time, from creating and editing wiki pages and going public to handling maintenance, promotion, and project management. You'll see how to handle the hurdles of shared authorship, use structured wiki applications, and prepare for the wikis of the future.

In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, Dan Woods and Thomas Mattern analyze SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored.