Creating value with the Networked Organization

Successful implementations with Grid Technology

An executive course in the WTC Amsterdam,

22, 23, 24 May & 5 July 2006

course dates have been changed !!

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Innovation is at the heart of business success. New grid technologies are critical enablers of today's business innovation. As we gain deeper understanding of the technological possibilities, it is becoming clear that successful applications will require more than simply exploring and exploiting new products or services. What determines real success is the ability to organize, build, and sustain a value network of different business organizations. This executive course explores the opportunities grid technology offers to create value for the networked organization. Grid technology is the next generation Internet technology; it is defined as a computing model that makes the virtualization of distributed computing resources, data resources, and/or services possible, thus impacting different types of sharing arrangements.

This executive course addresses how companies can create value for their customers and employees with grid technology. The concept of the networked organization using grid technology will create progressive and far-reaching changes: organizational networks will have a lasting impact on our ability to generate wealth in an increasingly global business world.

The first wave of Internet-enabled business innovation focused on new ways of interacting with the customer, on the “web-storefront”, online information provisioning and order taking. However, great web sites do not necessarily result in great profits. Without the ability to effectively respond to what the customer wants and expects, many such websites have failed to deliver compelling business results.

The second wave of Internet-enabled business innovation focused on new ways of interacting among customers. Emerging platforms such as eBay and Google create value for companies and customers. Standardized market processes and innovations have been the key to their success.

In the third wave customers and companies will require new ways of organizing and managing the many parties involved in the creation and fulfillment of a customer order. This is what we call the “smart business network”: the network of customers and companies that allows for customization, personalization, and relationship building. The underlying technologies are grid-related: standardized, flexible, but robust.

Grid technology is already established in the scientific world. In projects such as LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) and VL-e (Virtual Laboratory for e-Science) scientists from around the world learn how to use grid technology to process massive amounts of data. Based on these experiences, companies will learn how to create competitive advantage with the help of grid computing.

The pdf version of the folder is available here.

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For questions and remarks, or cancellation of participation, please mail to Chantal Schoof or call +31(0)10-4082032.