Find A Way To Go Faster!

Chris Bishop is an e-business strategist at IBM and he has a passion to keep abreast of the latest in e-business technology advances. He and I spent an hour late last year talking about the future of the Internet and Chris published the discussion on an IBM intranet site. He titled the interview "Find A Way To Go Faster!", and made it available for sharing here on patrickWeb.

CB: What are you currently telling business leaders about where future value lies in evolving Internet technologies?

JP: A lot of big changes are being driven by the Internet. It is causing a rebirth of ideas that had formerly been impractical. An idea - no matter where it comes from - can be accessible immediately. Leaders of institutions such as hospitals, schools, government should be envisioning the concept of modeling the end result and then reverse engineering to build systems which make that happen. In business, we had had the barter system   & give me cow and I’ll give you some grain& . Then the concept of mercantile exchange appeared and then business processes that evolved in silos. Now we are talking about integration of processes. I feel that too many companies are focused on the end state, and are ignoring the current day to day challenges around what they could be doing right now to be a more effective e-institution. (read more)

Internet Technology March 31, 2004 07:09 PM