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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic asset, and offers detailed examples from Microsoft, GM, Dell, and many other successful companies....more
Paperback, 496 pages
Published
May 1st 2000
by Business Plus
(first published January 1st 1999)
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I bought this book back when it came out around 99-00, but completely forgot about it. I found it while cleaning part of my house. The book is aimed at business managers and high-level executives and tries to push the idea of a digital office environment. What's funny is reading the author's (Bill Gates) predictions for the future of technology in the coming years, he is quite accurate for the most part, but also far off on a few.
If you are a business person and would like to know how technology, specially computer and internet, can change and improve your business, you definitely need to read this book. Please don't think that this book will teach you stuff about computers because Bill Gates wrote it. This is not the case. This book teaches you how you can use computer and internet to save costs, improve performance, share knowledge and increase your sales and business operation.
Reading this book in this era of compute...more
Reading this book in this era of compute...more
This book was originally published in 2000, and is a little dated now. But it was interesting to read what Gates was thinking at the time, and compare it to what has happened in the decade that followed. He talks a lot about the need for understanding and learning to manage and benefit from the pervasive data that marks our "information age", and gives examples of companies (including his own) starting to do that as the 21st century dawns. Using the analogy of a "digital nervous system" he expla...more
Bill Gates and Microsoft were at the height of their power when this book was released, so as an avid DOS, Windows and PC user, I was certainly intrigued. It has been 15 years now since I read the book, so can hardly remember anything, but I do remember thinking at the time that it was OK. Not spectacular and not horrible either but a good read. The use of @ in the title is certainly antiquated by today's standards but that was the trend of the day back then.
I sometimes enjoy reading books that are a decade beyond their current business events prime and this is one of those books. I listened to the audio book and it was very interesting listening to all of the predictions Bill Gates made that have come true. I wish every business would go paperless or as paperless as possible and have forms available online. This book is packed with great business ideas that challenge the status quo as well as great marketing ideas too. I only gave it 3 stars becaus...more
I borrowed this book from someone and then went and bought myself a copy. It is not so much an insight into the mind of Bill Gates, but the impact of technology on society the future. It gave me a an entirely new perspective on the role of IT in business and the society.
Yeah, I know we all hate Bill Gates but this was one important book when it came out. I think I was stunned that the sort of things I had been thinking about were laid out by the big man
I am going to read it again before I launch my new digital agency, PUSH Agency.
I am going to read it again before I launch my new digital agency, PUSH Agency.
Words from the Messiah on business Microsoft & making money from a can do guy. Imagine him running a country. The man they had to make step down as CEO of Microsoft or he probably would be running the country.
Read this a long time ago and looking at it now, the book has lost much of its shelf life as it dealt with Y2K issues and a lot of business 101 concepts. I know Bill can do better.
The book talks about the effective use of IT in the business , Bill Gates, in this book , tells as how to make the business more profit with the concept of DNS ,IS and as well as IT .
This book written in 1980's truly gives the vision Bill Gates had what it takes to be ahead and on the top of the things required to be successful in the IT world of business.
Не смотря на год выхода, книга остается актуальной. Позволяет взглянуть на всю индустрию.
Surprisingly bad book from perhaps the most brilliant business genius alive today. Bill Gates was my hero as a child, I wish he wrote something better
An optional-read autobiograpy on leadership for knowledge workers, managers, directors, C-levels, and entrepreneurs.
Dated. Be more interesting to read about his non-profit achievements since leaving Microsoft.
Microsoft's vision of a digital world. Can see it manifesting in its products
Exhaustive, more of a manual to keep and refer to.
most prolific, ahead of its time!!
Location read: Stellenbosch
Although the book is outdated now, but it still has some valid thoughts and interesting points about how Bill Gates did the business.
Difficult read!
OBE
Despite being written in 1999, Bill Gates seems prescient in predicting the rise of digital nervous systems in enterprises. This is an alternative way of explaining EDI, ERP, E-commerce, and other movements towards greater technology usage.
Daft Punk's song: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. That's basically how the book sells technology.
It's mostly inspirational, seeding the readers' thoughts with new ways of using IT. It is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Daft Punk's song: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. That's basically how the book sells technology.
It's mostly inspirational, seeding the readers' thoughts with new ways of using IT. It is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Nowadays only really interested me in a historical sense of seeing what Gates guessed right and what he missed.
Jun 22, 2008
Temiyemi
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a great business & tech book. overloaded with visionary insights... surprising they're beginning to unfold in so such a time.
there's a saying by Bill Gates in this book that i have come to respect: we often over-estimate the changes that will occur in the short term, and always under-estimate the changes that will take place in the long term.
that i have found to be absolute truth.
a must have. a must read.
there's a saying by Bill Gates in this book that i have come to respect: we often over-estimate the changes that will occur in the short term, and always under-estimate the changes that will take place in the long term.
that i have found to be absolute truth.
a must have. a must read.
It's a great book (full disclosure: written by my future employer), but the only reason I gave it 3 stars is that it's something that was relevant a decade ago. However, it is cool to read books written a while ago and see how accurate it was based on what I know today.
amazing if you read this now how technology that was mentioned back when, has now become the norm
Couldn't finish it... every page was an ad for a Micro$oft product -- yuck!
I remember this being full of sage business stuff. Bill Gates computes...
Sep 08, 2007
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Businessmen who would like to get more from technology.
Technology is here to work for us; note we being enslaved by it.
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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, software executive, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock.
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