The Battle Ahead - People can t make financial decisions based on a complete picture of all their accounts, because statements scattered across many different Web sites can t be viewed, much less analyzed, at the same time. For the pioneering U.K. startup, clicks without bricks and building share without care led to a first-mover disadvantage. That means marketers must banish the banner, and brandish the brand. The European Union is emerging as a formidable competitor among world economies, thanks to an aptitude for cross-border management and an ease with cultural diversity. Beating the B2B Odds - Internet auctions create losers as well as winners.
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Interview - The guru of organizational learning says that robber baronialism helped kill the dot economy. The solution to more efficient supply networks lies not with frictionless technologies, but with shared objectives and insights across the extended enterprise. Call it Federated Planning. Given time and space restraints, we tried to keep this one around 20 pages.