Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Select Endorsements
Chapter 1 The Event-Driven Cornpany
The Event-Driven Revolution
The GIobal Networked Society
What I Believe
Event-Driven:The Metamanagement Theory
How Bechtel Corporation Is Event-Driven
The Aqe of Punctuated Equilibrium
It All Starts with the Customer
Let's Get Busy
There Are No Silver Bullets
Chapter 2 Becomincl Event-Driven
Is Yours an Event-Driven Company?
Your Company Needs to Change,but How?
Becoming Event-Driven:
The Uitimate IT Upgrade
Your Dreams for Your Business
Some Advice about Becoming
Event-Driven
Chapter 3 From the Trading Floor to the
Event-Driven Enterprise
The Event-Driven Warrior
TradinCl:The OIdest Human Profession
85 Broad Street
TheWay It Was
HoW the Trading Floor Eventually
Became Event-Driven
Chapter 4 The Event-Driven IT Architecture
From the Trading Floor to the Enterprise to the Internet
Information Is Knowledge Is Power
The Publish/Subscribe Paradigm
The Information Bus
Middleware and Infrastructure Software
Reliable Multicast/PGM
How NASDAQ Is Using Multicasting
Event-Driven Technology Infrastructure
Management by Exception
Chapter 5 event-driven.corn
Make the Internet Work for You
Extend Your Business with a Portal
How Sticky Is Your Portal?
Creating an E-Community
The EIP--Your Showroom for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6 The Event-Driven Philosophy
"Contemporary" to "Cellular"
"Industry" to "Ecosystem"
Knowledge Management in the Event-Driven Company
All from Column A, All from Column B All from Column C
Embedding Your Core Competencies
Chapter 7 Leadership and Organization
The Star System
Compensation, Partnership, and Ownership
The Mission Statement: Guiding Star
Tips on How to Lead by Following
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Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Glossary
References
Index