Site Map . . . . Right now most companies use the Internet as a way to introduce their services to customers a glorified and expensive business card. Others have web sites with catalogues or on-line stores where customers can look over their wares and fill up a shopping cart and pay by credit card.
Wholesale companies have sites where customers and suppliers can buy and sell products.
If the value of services exchanged or booked online were included the figures would be even more staggering. Computing and electronics have already entered the hyper-growth phase and aerospace, defense, telecoms and cars are not far behind. Companies across the board will be drawn into e-business as major players such as General Electric, Dell, Ford and Visa bring their myriad suppliers and customers into the net. As buyers and sellers invest in the capacity to do business on the Internet and reduce costs and improve efficiency, their business partners will have to do the same, thus creating a self-reinforcing circle. Each individual World Trade Center will be a registration authority and a certification authority with local portals and services.