Archive for June, 2002

An Interview: Business and the Internet

Posted on June 25th, 2002 by Robin Bloor in RB Interviewed

The background to this interview is that I was making a presentation in Spain to the II International Walqa E-business Meeting in 2002. The organizers interviewed me so they had some extra content to publish in the proceedings.
Q: You have compared the appearance of the Internet with the appearance of the printing press. Do [...]

An Interview: Business and the Internet Continued…#1

Posted on June 24th, 2002 by Robin Bloor in RB Interviewed

Continued….
However now that the promise of getting rich quickly is no longer there, most companies are taking time in developing their use of the Internet and being cautious. The statistics still indicate that e-retail is growing at above 60 percent per year and that the population of Internet users is still rising at over 100 [...]

An Interview: Business and the Internet Continued…#2

Posted on June 23rd, 2002 by Robin Bloor in RB Interviewed

Continued…
Q: Will it be necessary in the future to educate staff so that they can exploit personal relations through the Net in depth?
RB: I think that retraining will become a permanent feature of the Internet with time because the Internet enables change to occur so quickly and getting people to adjust to the change and [...]

An Interview: Business and the Internet Continued…#3

Posted on June 22nd, 2002 by Robin Bloor in RB Interviewed

Continued….
Q: What would you recommend to the small Aragonese companies that have decided to embrace new technologies?
RB: Of course this depends very much on the kind of business that they are in. However I can give some advice that is very important. If you use any of the newer technologies you must monitor how your [...]

An Interview: Business and the Internet …….End

Posted on June 20th, 2002 by Robin Bloor in RB Interviewed

Continued….
In any economic revolution, centres of excellence are established which eventually become huge generators of wealth in their own right. The government can be responsible only for providing the right soil for such flowers to grow, but if it provides the soil then these flowers will definitely grow. So the government begins by helping to [...]