The only step-by-step guide to transforming any company into a highly efficient, responsive, and profitable organization Real-time enterprise (RTE) refers to the seamless fusion of IT and business operations to foster event-driven marketing, process automation, just-intime provisioning, and readily available business intelligence. By ensuring that the right information flows to the right people at the right time, RTE allows companies superior efficiency and quicker response time to both problems and opportunities. Drawing on five years of research at more than 30 leading companies, Becoming a Real-Time Enterprise fills a gaping hole in the business literature by bringing RTE down to earth for business readers and providing a complete blueprint for achieving real-time status. "Readable and right on target. Becoming a Real-Time Enterprise offers a step-by-step roadmap to productivity and cost improvements and a powerful competitive edge. I hope this book becomes a top discussion topic for every top executive team." Richard Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine "Becoming a Real-Time Enterprise leads to competitive advantages today; and tomorrow, will be required for competitive parity. Professor Tabrizi provides an efficient framework for an organization to build this key capability." Maynard Webb, Chief Operating Officer, eBay Becoming a Real-Time Enterprise can speed competitive advantage, avoiding mistakes from the customer cases and applying Tabrizi's pragmatic frameworks can accelerate your organization's time to strategic benefit." J.P. Finnel, General Manager, Mobility Professional Services, Nokia.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Real-Time Enterprise Chapter 2. Real-Time Enterprise Strategy and Planning Model Chapter 3. Real-Time Enterprise Implementation Model Chapter 4. The Road to Real-Time Enterprise Using RFID Chapter 5. Real-Time in Hospitals Chapter 6. Cisco: The Real-Time Enterprise Role Model Chapter 7. AT&T: Real-Time Transformation Chapter 8. Real-Time Operations in Stock Exchanges and Data Service Providers Appendix: IT Software Components in an Organization Index