iExec Enterprise Essentials Companion Guide is the official print companion to the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute of application? s new Enterprise Essentials curriculum iExec? innovative IT-related business education designed to help you change the organization through the strategic use of IT and the Internet. Working through the study, the case of realistic start-to-end, you? Will learn how to use technology to help improve their business processes and promote a sustainable competitive advantage. Next, you? Will find the IT-enabled business strategies that increase productivity, efficiency, innovation, and profitability and learn how to trans-form any organization into performance, agile high-Network Virtual Organization (NVO). Through hands-on practice, you? Will learn how to assess and improve organizational readiness, enhance governance, the Internet allows internal and external processes, use portfolio management to IT-based business investment plans, manage change, and more. in international business from the University of Colorado. Michael Jude, Ph.D., manages accounts for leading management solution vendors. Building a Virtual Network Organizations that respond more quickly to customers, collaborate better with partners on value-added activity, and reduce costs by standardizing processes, data, and infrastructure ? Perform external and internal situation analysis, create an e-vision for success, and build effective business cases ? Implement strategic planning and portfolio management to create an Internet-business roadmap that enabled successful ?