In the late 90's it was said that 'The Network is the
computer,' meaning that a single computing device, by virtue of its inclusion
on the internal network or the Internet, increased its value by orders of
magnitude. The computer's value proposition changed completely once it was part
of the network.
Today the same is happening with entire businesses. The
idea of the network organization model is not new, but with the mature
Internet, this business model has started to flourish.
The key to managing the network is collaboration. Not
collaboration as some touchy-feely new found way of doing business. But
collaboration as the necessary quick, decisive, mostly automatic communications
that must happen correctly in the network in order for orders to be filled,
customers billed, service issues rectified, vendors notified of drop ships and
of course the movement of cash from one end of network to the other.
The merger becomes a necessity
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