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Business @ the speed of thought : using a digital nervous system / Bill Gates with Collins Hemingway.

By: Gates, Bill, 1955- [author].
Contributor(s): Hemingway, Collins.
Publisher: New York, NY : Warner Books, ©1999Description: xi, 470 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780140283112.Subject(s): Business enterprises -- Computer networks | Business enterprises -- Communication systemsGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Information flow is your lifeblood -- Manage with the force of facts -- Can your digital nervous system do this -- Create a paperless office -- Commerce: the Internet changes everything -- Ride the inflection rocket -- Middleman must add value -- Touch your customers -- Adopt the web lifestyle -- Change the boundaries of business -- Get to market first -- Manage knowledge to improve strategic thought -- Bad news must travel fast -- Convert bad news to good -- Know your numbers -- Shift people into thinking work -- Raise your corporate IQ -- Big wins require big risks -- Bring insight to business operations -- Develop processes that empower people -- Information technology enables reengineering -- Treat it as a strategic resource -- Special enterprises -- No health care system is an island -- Take government to the people -- When reflex is a matter of life and death -- Create connected learning communities -- Expect the unexpected -- Prepare for the digital future.
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Includes index.

part 1. Information flow is your lifeblood -- chapter 1. Manage with the force of facts -- chapter 2. Can your digital nervous system do this -- chapter 3. Create a paperless office -- part 2. Commerce: the Internet changes everything -- chapter 4. Ride the inflection rocket -- chapter 5. Middleman must add value -- chapter 6. Touch your customers -- chapter 7. Adopt the web lifestyle -- chapter 8. Change the boundaries of business -- chapter 9. Get to market first -- part 3. Manage knowledge to improve strategic thought -- chapter 10. Bad news must travel fast -- chapter 11. Convert bad news to good -- chapter 12. Know your numbers -- chapter 13. Shift people into thinking work -- chapter 14. Raise your corporate IQ -- chapter 15. Big wins require big risks -- part 4. Bring insight to business operations -- chapter 16. Develop processes that empower people -- chapter 17. Information technology enables reengineering -- chapter 18. Treat it as a strategic resource -- part 5. Special enterprises -- chapter 19. No health care system is an island -- chapter 20. Take government to the people -- chapter 21. When reflex is a matter of life and death -- chapter 22. Create connected learning communities -- part 6. Expect the unexpected -- chapter 23. Prepare for the digital future.

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