e-Strategy, Pure and Simple: Connecting Your Internet Strategy to Your Business Strategy

by Michel Robert, Bernard Racine

Senior managers know that the Internet demands new business strategies. But for many of these executives, much about the Internet and e-commerce remains enigmatic. This important new book by strategy guru Michel Robert demystifies the Internet for executives and provides a comprehensive framework for developing Internet strategies that dovetail with an organization’s overall business strategy.Based on Robert’s two decades of research and international consulting experience at more than 400 companies, the e-strategy model described comprises 10 e-drivers, corresponding to 10 key business strategies. These demand aggregation for obtaining better prices; build-to-order services that allow customers to configure products to their specifications; customer self-service; direct customer access for manufacturers; dynamic pricing; and others. Using many real-life examples, Robert describes how each e-driver works and how to combine them in a coherent strategy for making optimal use of today’s most powerful strategic tool, the Internet.

173 pages, Hardcover

First published December 13, 2000

About the author

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Michel Robert is founder and president of Decision Processes International, Inc., a consulting firm headquartered in Westport, Connecticut which has 60 partners in 15 countries. His clients include such major companies as Caterpillar, 3M, Volvo, and FIAT. A noted speaker, he has written articles in numerous business magazines and journals, including The Wall Street Journal.