Developing Extranet Business Communities: A Successful iCommerce model

Nahum Goldmann
ARRAY Development,
Ottawa, Canada

2:00pm Friday, February 18, 2000
Lecture Hall III, Administration Building

Extranet Business Community is a newly emerging concept in Internet commerce (iCommerce). Extranet is a private service network of several cooperating organizations located inside or outside the corporate firewall. An Extranet Business Community enables the cooperating partners, customers and suppliers to form a tight relationship and a strong communication bond.

An interactive Extranet Business Community fully utilizes ubiquitous Web/Internet/intranet networking infrastructure for transactional delivery of financial and administrative services, online publishing and consultations, and procurement of goods, services and information. Close collaboration among Extranet Business Community adds value to customers and lowers overall business costs.

The presentation is devoted to restructuring mission-critical applications and developing new marketing channels for transactional delivery of iCommerce services.

Recommended readings:
- Nahum Goldmann, The Caring Extranet: Implementing Extranet Business Communities, Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce (JIBC), October 1999, vol. 4, no. 1. To rapidly restructure itself, an organization needs to establish a special framework, a multiphase program for managing the transition process. This article describes how to define such a framework. It introduces a new fundamental concept of the Extranet Business Community and describes what it consists of, what makes it different from conventional ways of running a business, and how much it might cost.
- Nahum Goldmann, Implementing Extranet Business Communities, The Journal of Electronic Commerce, 1999, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 14-24

Students are also recommended to read the latest issues of the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce (JIBC), Journal of Internet Marketing (JIM), Journal of Internet Purchasing (JIP) and Journal of Internet Security (JISec) posted on: http://www.ARRAYdev.com/publishing/

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Nahum Goldmann, President, ARRAY Development and CEO, ADDSecure.Net Inc. is a leading expert and a renowned lecturer on building and securing iCommerce (Internet commerce) and financial solutions. Working at a number of leading industrial, government and academic research organizations, he has an excellent track record in development of telecommunications products and electronic commerce solutions.

Mr. Goldmann's methodologies on development of mission-critical iCommerce processes are based on the numerous books and articles that he has published over the last 15 years, and on the original change management framework pioneered by ARRAY Development.

Mr. Goldmann has widely consulted corporations, financial institutions and public agencies on how to reposition the organization's service and knowledge delivery infrastructure, conduct corporate restructuring around the use of Icommerce tools, and avoid frustrating and costly mistakes that are common in the fast-paced online technology innovation field. At present, he leads a number of prominent projects on the development of advanced Extranet Business Communities.

Mr. Goldmann has widely presented his novel restructuring methodologies to government, financial and business professionals, scientists, and university students in courses, seminars, workshops and consultations conducted around the globe. He was an invited keynote speaker at a number of high profile conferences in North America and Europe. He has been a consultant to Elsevier Science Publishers BV, Bell Canada, Nortel Networks, IBM, the Government of the Netherlands, to numerous Canadian Government agencies, including PWGSC, TBS, IC, INAC, CIDA and EC, as well as to many other leading industrial companies and government organizations. His course on electronic commerce is scheduled to be presented at the University of Toronto School of Business in the Fall semester of 2000.

Mr. Goldmann is the Publisher of the world-acclaimed Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, Journal of Internet Marketing, Journal of Internet Security and Journal of Internet Purchasing of the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce and a member of several scientific and professional societies and international committees.