{"id":3081,"date":"2001-04-23T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2001-04-23T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smperformance.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/30\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-042301\/"},"modified":"2001-04-23T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2001-04-23T22:34:52","slug":"stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-042301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stratvantage.com\/index.php\/2001\/04\/23\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-042301\/","title":{"rendered":"StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 04\/23\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 04\/23\/01<\/h1>\n

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T<\/strong>he News \u2013 04\/23\/01<\/h1>\n

Toffler Says We Ain\u2019t Seen Nothing Yet<\/h2>\n

In a recent article in the Wall Stree Journal, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler scoff at the notion that the new economy is a sham, and that the dotcom bubble burst means a complete return to the old economy ideas of how to run an enterprise:<\/p>\n

To imagine that the new economy is over is the equivalent of thinking, in the early 1800s, that the industrial revolution was over because textile manufacturers were going broke in Manchester.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today’s stock-market agonies hardly prove the new economy’s non-existence.<\/strong> If stock prices plunge 50% on a given day, does that mean the actual underlying economic activities have been cut in half, that workers are producing half of what they produced the day before?<\/strong> If share prices mirror reality at all, they frequently do so with enormous lags and leads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tofflers continue to say that the new economy has changed organizations dramatically.<\/strong> Corporations are flatter, less hierarchical, and their products are more customized.<\/strong> There is less vertical integration as supply webs have allowed companies to focus on their true core competencies.<\/strong> Companies must innovate faster and compete in ever-narrowing niches.<\/strong> The Tofflers point to a fantastic statistic: There are more than three million digital switches for each one of us today.<\/strong> This makes the half a billion PCs and the projected 1 billion cell phones seem like a drop in the ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The obvious, inescapable fact is that the revolution is real, and it manifests itself at many levels simultaneously.<\/strong> Internationally, we see it in today’s drive toward globalization and the mounting backlash against it.<\/strong> Politically, we see it in novel battles over privacy and intellectual property.<\/strong> We see it in America’s increasingly intangible exports.<\/strong> We see it in breakthroughs in genetics and in the manufactured panic over genetically modified food.<\/strong> We see it in the phenomenal rise of media power — and the public’s rising hostility toward it.<\/strong> We see it in intergenerational relations. We see it in a polarization of wealth.<\/strong> We see it in fears of a so-called digital divide. We see it in a rising tide of anti-Americanism in Europe and Asia.<\/strong> These changes are not independent of one another.<\/strong> They are part of a larger pattern.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something new is arising on the planet and it doesn’t fit the assumptions, models and paradigms left over from the industrial age.<\/strong> It is a new civilization of which the new economy is only one part.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tofflers assert that the ride has just begun, and the economic turbulence will continue as technological advances in every field drive changes in every aspect of our lives.<\/strong> The most important trend, they say, is the convergence of biology and digital technology.<\/strong> First, information technology will revolutionize biology, and then the reverse will happen, as we get biological computers <\/a> and other hybrid devices <\/a> of unimagined power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Basically, it\u2019s way too early in the game to get off the technology bandwagon.<\/strong> As futurist Kevin Kelly puts it, we\u2019ve just 15 minutes into a 24-hour poker game.<\/strong> Hold onto your seats, and keep a poker face!<\/strong><\/p>\n

WSJ Online (subscription required) <\/a><\/p>\n

New TrendSpot Rankings<\/h2>\n

As you may know, I maintain a page that ranks current emerging Internet-related trends called the TrendSpot.<\/strong> I\u2019ve recently completed the April ranking, and there are a few changes.<\/strong> One thing that did not change was the fact that P2P computing maintains its spot at the top.<\/strong> In addition, I split the Auto-ID\/Smart Homes topic in two.<\/strong> As if that weren\u2019t enough, a new trend, P2P Backlash, debuts at number 14, with a bullet!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check it out at www.stratvantage.com\/trendspot\/ <\/a> and let me know what you think.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The TrendSpot <\/a><\/p>\n

Can\u2019t Get Enough of ME?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the unlikely event that you want more of my opinions, I\u2019ve started a Weblog.<\/strong> It\u2019s the fashionable thing for pundits to do, and I\u2019m doing it too.<\/strong> A Weblog is a datestamped collection of somewhat random thoughts and ideas assembled on a Web page.<\/strong> If you\u2019d like to subject the world to your thoughts, as I do, you can create your own Weblog.<\/strong> You need to have a Web site that allows you FTP access, and the free software from www.blogger.com <\/a>.<\/strong> This allows you to right click on a Web page and append your pithy thoughts to your Weblog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve dubbed my Weblog entries \u201cStratlets\u201d, and they are available at www.stratvantage.com\/stratlets\/ <\/a>.<\/strong> Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

Return <\/a> to Mike\u2019s Take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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