I just finished a post on hatman2.blogspot.com, my entrepreneurship blog about extended enterprises. Here's what Information Builder says:
The term "extended enterprise" represents the concept that a company is made up not just of its employees, its board members, and executives, but also its business partners, its suppliers, and even its customers. The extended enterprise can only be successful if all of the component groups and individuals have the information they need in order to do business effectively.When I was writing this book I thought of myself as one who wrote who would then give it to my agent. I was thinking of myself in isolation from the world. Writer in the ivory tower spinning out the next great American novel. In reality, the writer is node in a loose web of organizations and individuals including editors, agents, publishers, bookstores, e-publishing enterprises, etc., with the end point being the reader. And these days, even if the writer is using a mainstream publisher, he or she is going to have to do more of what publishers traditionally have done. All of these entities are part of a vast supply chain involved in getting the "product", the book, to the user, the "reader."
The sooner writers realize this--they are really entrepreneurs--the easier it will be for them.
What do you think? I'd like to know. Post a comment.
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Ian Kearney, the director of the Kearney Music School, an elite musical training school in Philadelphia, dies after a fall from a balcony during a recital. World-famous cellist, Henry Harrier, recently forced from the faculty, returns to investigate Ian's death when his prized former student is arrested. Henry shows through his brilliant and single-minded pursuit of the truth that, as usual, they have it all wrong. This Sherlock Holmes-type mystery leads the reader through the world of classical music and lays bare the conflicts which dominate the lives of talented adolescents when placed under the pressure of studying for a demanding, stressful, and often elusive career as a classical music performer. Henry Harrier is part John Le Carre's George Smiley, part Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes, and part Orlando Cole the beloved teacher, renowned chamber musician, and until his own retirement, the premier cellist of the Curtis Institute.
Tim was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1946. In 1951 he moved with his family to Schenectady, New York, where he lived through high school. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from 1964 to 1968. He graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in history and philosophy. He received his Ph. D. in history in U.S. history in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after spending 2.5 years in the U. S. Army. Most of his army service was completed in Wuerzburg, Germany, from 1969-1971. In 1972 he returned to Madison to complete his doctoral study. His dissertation, Those Who Moved; Internal Migrants in American 1607-1840, combined the statistical analysis of genealogical and biographical data with the study of traditional literary diaries, letters, and journals.
