Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models
By Peter Weill and Michael R. Vitale
Harvard Business School Press, 2001
ISBN 1-57851-245-X

Breadth of Audience: 3.16 (Outstanding)
Topical Utility: 2.78 (Good)
Content Applicable: 2.59 (Good)
Writing Quality: 3.38 (Outstanding)
Overall: 2.98 (Good)

COMMENTS FROM THE REVIEWERS:

1. Place to Space is a must read for those who are responsible for an e-business initiative or strategy. With several years' research and 50 case studies, Weill and Vitale provide eight business models that encapsulate business on the Internet. (Case studies include Lonely Planet, General Electric, CDNow, and Reuters). The end result is a framework that practitioners will find useful in developing, implementing, and evaluating strategic e-business initiative and the business models that drive them. That being said, this is not an exciting book, and much of it now seems old hat. The pragmatic reader will want to quickly read the beginning and skip to the final chapters to get maximum value. It is worth the read and could save you a bundle in consulting fees.

2. The scramble remains in place for those seeking to establish themselves as e-business gurus; one wonders if this is such an example. Place to Space offered little that caught my interest except for some interesting relational mappings among business models to product/value-added, strategic objectives, and information system infrastructure domains. What is provided may be an interesting perspective for consideration, but not a discipline. If e-business reading is a personal hobby, then this book may be of particular interest.