Alberts,
David S. and John J. Gartska, Frederick P. Stein. Network
Centric Warfare: Developing and Leveraging Information
Superiority. 2nd Edition (Revised 1999). The CCRP Publication
Series. This book defines and describes network centric
warfare and provides a process for transforming network
centric warfare concepts into operational capabilities.
Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked:
How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and
What it Means. New
York: Perseus Books Group, 2002. In this excellent
primer on networks, Barabasi shows how network technology
is bringing concepts, which previously seemed completely
unrelated, together. He finds commonalities in all
networks and shows how these commonalities link all
facets of this world together.
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Boyd, Col. John R. Patterns
of Conflict. Unpublished Lecture, December, 1986.
Cebrowski, VADM (ret.) Arthur. Address
to the U.S. Naval Institute 130th Annual Meeting and Annapolis
Naval History Symposium, March 31, 2004.
Davis, Stan and Christopher Meyer. It's
Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology,
and Business. New York: Crown, 2003. This book describes
a transformation into a "molecular economy,"
in which Davis and Meyer explain taking the transformation
into your own hands and show case studies to prove the
methods described throughout their work.
Evans, Philip and Thomas S. Wurster. Blown
to Bits. Boston,
MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Evans and Wurster
walk through the disastrous consequences and great opportunities
of the introduction of internet technology into the business
world, describing how businesses must transform to accommodate
this technology or be "blown to bits."
Fine, Charles H. Clockspeed:
Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage. New York: Perseus Books Group,
1999. Based on the idea of evolution, Fine created an economic
idea that industries with a high evolutionary rate, or clockspeed,
flourish and outlines in this book what kinds of characteristics
give a business a high evolutionary rate and therefore a
successful business that transitions through new technologies
easily.
Friedman, Thomas L. The
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005. Friedman has written a highly readable and understandable
analysis of the impacts of globalization and current Information
Age trends, which is an excellent basis for understanding
the strategic context for Transformation of modern organizations.
Haeckel, Stephan H. Adaptive
Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations. Boston, MA: President and
Fellows of Harvard College, 1999. Haeckel's book describes
the adaptive enterprise and illustrates a sense-and-respond
model and contrasts it to the make-and-sell model. His work
speaks to the organizational implications for an adaptive
business.
Hartman, Amir and John Sifonis with
John Kadir. Net Ready. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. This book discusses how "seamless
interoperability" in a business is a must and lays
out a framework for businesses to follow in order to transform
their company's entire way of business. Using their
own business as an example, they provide the framework, results
and lessons learned.
Heinrich, Claus and Bob Betts. Adapt
or Die: Transforming Your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business
Network. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. Heinrich
and Betts describe an environment in which several companies
create a virtual entity to share information and common services
called "Adaptive
Business Networks." This book is oriented towards SAP
software but has valuable insights into adaptive supply chains.
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