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Old Business to E-Business: The Change Dynamic
Old Business to E-Business: The Change Dynamic
Pages 119-123
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The Second Wave of Internet Innovation Mr. Abrams described life today, from corporate boardrooms to global exchanges, as a whirlwind of electronic activity that is first experienced by many people in buying books online the business-to-consumer aspect of Internet commerce.
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In Central and South America, by contrast, fewer than 28 percent of senior executives view technology as having an impact. This is because it is difficult to find skilled people, there is little common understanding of the meaning of a competitive business base, and it is difficult to raise capital for technology investments.
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No one yet knows where the benefits will come from. Part of the challenge chief executive officers have to face is that doing procurement over the Internet is easier than creating a digital supply chain with your suppliers, as well as doing collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment with your other partners.
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For consumers to participate in an e-business world, technology needs to be powerful enough to operate virtually in real time and it needs to be as pervasive as the telephone is today. Applications must be truly meaningful and useful.
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From a policy point of view, the government needs to promote both basic and applied research that will help organizations adapt to this challenging new world.
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