How are you and the internet doing?
The internet is getting old. So old that there are very few people who haven’t heard of it, although there are still many who’ve never used it. You know it’s getting old, not when young people talk about it, but when old people talk about it. My mother visited...
Nano – Quo vadis
Written by Pieter Geldenhuys and Manfred Paeper. (An abstract of the soon to be published article ‚Strategic Implications of Nanotechnology in South African Textile Manufacturing‛ in the South African Business Review) Everything we see around us is made up of...
Defining the internet
The traditional viewpoint of describing the Internet is fundamentally that the Internet is a utility. Just as electricity and water are described as utilities, the Internet is seen as the new utility. The implication of a utility is that an organisation cannot survive...
Information symmetry in the era of transparency
The era of transparency is built on the invisible future. The only problem is - the invisible future is already here. We've said goodbye to our telephone answering machines. Now say goodbye to CDs, DVDs and phones. And what next? Welcome to the edge of the transparent...
10 Skills for future success
The Economist magazine ended a survey of e-business with a review of the skills necessary to successfully manage an e-world business. Now before you discount what is to follow because you might argue that you are not involved in an e-business, have a look at the list....
Relationships – The economic return of the future
Of course in today's cynical, hard-pressed business environment, swallowing the prediction that relationships will be the economic return of tomorrow is a little like asking you to believe that bullets will one day bounce off vests made from the mixture of a spider's...