Appendix A: E-Business on Demand

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Overview

e-business on demand is IBM's position on how enterprises can best transform themselves to successfully face the challenges of an increasingly globalized economy. This implies a transformation to a fully integrated business across people, processes, and information—including suppliers and distributors, customers, and employees.

Definition: 

IBM defines an on demand business as an enterprise whose business processes—integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers—can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat.

The on demand era is now upon us—a time when the stakes are higher than ever, the perils significant, and the opportunities enormous—a time when everyone who makes your business run—customers, suppliers, partners, and shareholders—will expect everything you do to be delivered better, faster, and more cheaply.

This appendix is a collection of previously published materials detailing IBM's on demand vision.

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