The Antidote: Volume 4 Issue 5
Table of contents
Is there anything that won't be affected?
T KippenbergerDiscusses the digital economy and its spectacular take‐off despite varying views from experts over the previous 4 years. Posits the digital economy is now part of everyday life…
Big bang — again
T KippenbergerChronicles that the shift to electronic trading in financial and capital markets is likened to the ‘Big bang’. Pinpoints that both the UK and the USA (as a result of a mixture of…
Towards a digitally networked world
T KippenbergerLooks at the information technology revolution which is characterized by its dependence on knowledge and information — but knowledge is not exclusively the province of information…
Prophecies about the digital economy
T KippenbergerCites 12 forces which have helped to create the new environment of the technological age and shows these as: knowledge; digitalization; virtualization; molecularization;…
The shifting economy
T KippenbergerDetermines that three forces fuel each other, combining to wreak havoc in economies, businesses and people's lives and these are: speed; intangibles; and connectivity. Posits the…
Technology changes, but the laws of economics don't!
T KippenbergerArgues managers would be fooled if they thought that the basic rules of economics had changed suddenly — an understanding is needed of how they apply in an information economy…
How did we get to a World Wide Web?
T KippenbergerLooks at the beginning of the e‐commerce boom and its worldwide growth, which all began after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik in 1957. Discusses the first electronic mail…
How value chains are starting to dissolve
T KippenbergerCovers Boston Consulting Group and how it deals with changes in the information economics areas, linking the activities undertaken to design, produce, market, deliver and support…
Putting the customer first
T KippenbergerStates electronic business changes traditional relationships between seller and buyer, shifting markers for competitive advantage. Posits, in e‐business, if the only thing left is…
E‐business: the big challenge is business design
T KippenbergerPoints out that strategic managers already face enormous pressures to get everything right in terms of cost, quality, and customer satisfaction and supply chain issues. Suggests…
Trick or treat? IT tries to arrive in time...
T KippenbergerLooks at how large business has introduced enterprise resource planning (ERP) which is designed to connect and integrate such diverse areas as manufacturing, finance, inventory…
But where are we really? A sanity check...
T KippenbergerLooks at the current state of e‐business in Ireland and the UK and shows results of research among senior executives and IT professionals, all sectors of business and…