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Architects of the Business Revolution
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Architects of the Business Revolution

The Ultimate E-Business Book

Des Dearlove and Stephen Coomber
Capstone, 2001

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Authors Des Dearlove and Stephen Coomber present capsule biographies of 50 individuals who have played a major role in the spread of e-business. Besides providing some background on each person, these bios highlight their major contributions as individuals or through their companies. While many names and stories are familiar - Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates - others are less so, such as the developers of Google and Real Networks. The bios mix high-tech contributors, entrepreneurs and journalists covering the e-business revolution. Though the book has a brief introduction, it suffers from its alphabetical listing of the contributors, which presents the bios out of context. getAbstract says this book is a useful encyclopedia of the selected individuals and a valuable e-resource.

Take-Aways

  • Each technology revolution in the last 500 years has produced a competitive, entrepreneurial free-for-all - like the Internet.
  • Since the Internet opened to commerce in the mid-1990s, three waves of e-commerce have occurred.
  • In the first wave - a "land-grab" where companies raced to occupy empty territory - success depended on speed, innovation and "cyber-savvy."

About the Authors

Des Dearlove is co-founder of the media content, concepts and consulting firm, Suntops Media. He writes regularly for the Times, the American Management Review and Human Resources. He is the author of a number of books on management practice, including The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking and Business the Bill Gates Way. Stephen Coomber  writes for a variety of publications, including Internet Money magazine. He is author of Heart and Soul, a report on corporate values.

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