Stewart McKie - E-Business Best Practices: Leveraging Technology for Business Advantage

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E-Business
Best Practices

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LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR
BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

Stewart McKie

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

New York Chichester Weinheim Brisbane Singapore Toronto

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Copyright 2001 by Stewart McKie. All rights reserved.

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tewart McKie is an independent consultant and technology writer specializing in business management software. He is the author of four books on business management software and some 200 articles, many on e-business topics, for magazines such as Business Finance, Intelligent Enterprise, Computers in Finance, and others. Mr. McKie has worked with many North American and European end user corporations and software vendors. He can be reached via his Web site at www.cfoinfo.com.

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To my wife Theresa

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he author would like to acknowledge some individuals who have enhanced, recognized, or supported his own e-business perspectives, including David Blansfield as publisher of Business Finance magazine, Justin Kestelyn as editor of Intelligent Enterprise magazine, Mike Rohan as president of FRx Software, and Torben Wind as vice president of Product Development at Navision Software.

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