So where do you want to go tomorrow? That's the question Bill Gates
tries to answer in Business @ the Speed of Thought. Gates offers a
12-step program for companies wanting to do business in the next
millennium. The book's premise: Thanks to technology, the speed of
business is accelerating at an ever-increasing rate, and to survive, it
must develop an infrastructure--a "digital nervous system"--that allows
for the unfettered movement of information inside a company. Gates
writes that "The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from
your competition ... is to do an outstanding job with information. How
you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win
or lose."
The book is prepared with examples of companies that have already
successfully engineered information networks to manage inventory, sales,
and customer relationships better. The examples run from Coca-Cola's
ability to download sales data from vending machines to Microsoft's own
internal practices, such as its reliance on e-mail for company-wide
communication and the conversion of most paper processes to digital ones
(an assertion that seems somewhat at odds with the now-infamous "by
hand on sheets of paper" method of tracking profits that was revealed
during Microsoft's antitrust trial).
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