Re: UKNM: Dot Com Fever

[Quentin Langley]

Now, this is just silly.  What on Earth do you mean by

saying that all businesses will be "e-businesses"? 

What do you mean by the term? If you mean that they

will be operating in a wired world, then of course

they will.  But when most people use the term they are

thinking of something more specific: an organisation

that delivers its service principally by electronic

means.


If  a hairdresser allowed you to book an appointment

online and sent the stylist around to see then I

suppose that would make it an e-business, even though

the actual cutting would be by conventional means. 

Tescodirect is an e-business.  But I doubt that most

hairdressers, prostitutes, pubs or gyms are going to

operate on this basis.


--- Ray Taylor <

rayeyeconomy [dot] com

> wrote:

>

<Speechradaol [dot] com> said:

> 

> >>Let's get this point absolutely straight. All

> business will be e-business

> >>in a matter of years.

> 

> > Pubs, hairdressers, grasscutters, cinemas,

> restaurants, milkmen,

> gardeners,

> > butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, they're all

> going to be e-businesses

> > are they?

> 

> YES!

> 

> > They might have a website but that don't make 'em

> e-businesses - they also

> > have telephones, it don't make 'em call centres.

> 

> Obviously. They may or may not have websites, they

> may or may not have

> call-centres, but they WILL be e-businesses. Mark my

> words. It's the future

> we are talking about, not this week.

> 

> > Get things in perspective, some people will always

> prefer to do business

> > face

> > to face.  Personal contact with customers and

> like-minded people is still

> > important to some people.

> 

> Again, this is obvious. But who said that creating

> an e-business involved

> shutting yourself up behind a concrete wall and

> never meeting people face to

> face? Not me.

> 

> > Sure the world is changing but somethings are

> resitant to change for good

> > reasons.

> 

> Just like people are resistant to using mobile

> phones. But has anyone

> noticed how that resistance is starting to break

> down now that idiot John

> Major has gone back to playing cricket? Once people

> catch on, the resistance

> to the electronification of business will start to

> be the exception, not the

> rule.

> 

> > Why do many Internet businesses locate in London

> when apparent

> > logic dictates that they could work from a any

> location with good

> > communication facilities?

> 

> What's that got to do with the price of fish?

> 

> Ray Taylor



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