This new networked economy rewards companies who are quickest to sense changes and first to capitalize on them .
Competitors can emerge quickly, and make their presence felt with little capital investment.
Soon, computing technology will be fast, ubiquitous, disposable and completely inter-connected. As information technologies continue to emerge and we learn to fully make use of them, the process of linking computation with the gathering and re-use of knowledge will become the principal driver of market value in the networked economy. The winning companies in the new millennium will harness these emerging information technologies and use them to speed communication with their consumers. A trend toward global customers, an increasing demand for customer service, a growing awareness of the huge logistics cost to provide this service and the remarkable technological advances related to computing are revolutionizing logistics. There is currently a huge investment being made in technology for automatically capturing logistics data, tracking material, and processing logistics related transactions.