MetaCapitalism : The e-Business Revolution and the Design of 21st-Century Companies and Markets

by Means, Grady; Schneider, David

• ISBN13: 9780471393351
• ISBN10: 0471393355
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The period 2000-2002 will represent the greatest change in worldwide economic and business conditions ever, and most of the change will occur within the next 18 months. The key driver to this change is the business-to-business e-business revolution. The key result will be decapitalized, Internet-leveraged styles of brand owning, customer focused companies. The business to business e-business revolution could accelerate economic growth and value creation from a number of perspectives: 1. Expansion of market access; 2. Better leverage of capital; 3. Significant improvement in operating efficiency; 4. Dramatic improvement in the efficiency of capital markets; 5. Dramatic unleashing of human potential and human capital. The author contends that capital market growth caused by the business to business e-business revolution might accelerate from to 13% to 40-50% over the next four to five years. In short, a dramatic and transformational revolution is underway, not unlike the industrial revolution, with the principal difference being that, instead of taking 200 years, this revolution will happen in the next two years.MetaCapitalism proposes a fundamental change in the way organizations do business. The first book to set out the strategies and impact of this dramatic change. Means and Schneider introduce horizontal and vertical "value added communities" (VACs) that will focus on process efficiency rather than customer ownership and management, and will support brand owners in dramatically reducing costs, increasing quality, and responding rapidly to customer demand and market shifts.

Author Biography

GRADY E. MEANS is the Managing Partner and Global Leader for Strategic Change Consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Grady resides in Washington, DC with his wife Gayle and two children. He has been a consultant to top management for thirty years. In addition, he has served in the White House and has been a lecturer at major business schools. His previous book is Wisdom of the CEO, also from Wiley. For more information, visit www.metacapitalism.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xv
The Business-to-Business e-Business Revolution Begins: The ``Decapitalizing'' of Traditional Companies	1	(18)
The Dynamics of MetaCapitalism: Value-Added Communities and MetaMarkets	19	(26)
New Business Process Models for B2B	45	(36)
``It's Alive!'' The Intelligent Behavior of MetaCapitalist Markets	81	(8)
Industry Examples: B2B Transformation and MetaMarket Formation	89	(40)
The New Economics of MetaCapitalism and Performance Measurement	129	(28)
Bubble In, Bubble Out, Transformation: The Organizational and Change Management Challenge	157	(18)
Epilogue A New World: Closing the Digital Divide	175	(6)
Index	181