Brown said businesses must focus on establishing trust with their partners, suppliers and customers. Brown also said companies must eliminate generational boundaries and arm their workers with mobile devices and wireless technology. There is no Old Economy. There is no New Economy. They're enabling relationships, not just transactions.
Communities win over individual companies heads down.
Not surprisingly, Brown later hawked EDS' consulting services to help businesses retool. We're the ones who can pull it all together. That goes beyond the providing the hardware and software. It's about providing insights and relationships. In the Digital Economy, hardware and software are meaningless without services.