In terms of corporate IT, any information generated by customers, suppliers and people throughout the chain of production constitutes potential knowledge management. For most of corporate America, E-business is business. IT has come to mean ability. The line between operating a business and maintaining IT processes has been practically obliterated. With that change, dynamics, rules and traditions have been forever altered.
Suppliers often share pricing information with buyers, heretofore taboo.
And, corporate procurement has become a strategic activity based on many dynamic factors other than price. InformationWeek lets you in on the success stories and secrets of IT departments which have merged their E-business with knowledge management. We show you what are the leaders doing and how they interact with the industry as a whole. Competitors, for instance, are gathering around common web sites to effectively create markets and expand upon old markets. The metal, plastics, chemical and manufacturing industries, for example, have all benefited by concentrating on their vertical market penetration through web technology.