corner_white_blue_top.gif (929 bytes)This week's chain Management News

Global 2000 emphasis has shifted from dot-com ebullience to leveraging the Web for competitive advantage by extending internal supply chain management to numerous trading partners, using the Web across all aspects of the product life cycle. Through 2001, companies will continue to create more mature ERP systems as they finally begin to deliver internal collaboration. By 2002/03, early wins of indirect-centered e-procurement will be extended to direct procurement, with much dependence on private Net markets

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corner_white_blue_top.gif (929 bytes)Measuring IT will evolve into modeling IT Organisations
By 2002, 70% of the Global 2000 will expand performance indicators beyond lagging financial measures to provide managers with more effective process visibility and control of critical success factors. By 2003/04, market leaders will link ITO performance measures to LOB impacts to better communicate IT contribution to business value. By 2005/06, companies will routinely manage measurement systems (e.g., early-warning systems, customer data warehouses, demand management systems, incentive program systems) that extend performance measurement from internal to external value chain modeling.

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