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とにかく彼がマイクロソフト社の共同創業者として、パソコンの標準化に歴史的役割を果たしたことは、否定できない。マイクロソフト社が競争に勝ち続け、世界最大級の企業にまで成長し、多くの富を生み出したこともまた事実である。
その彼が『思考スピードの経営』(原題『Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy』)で、「競合企業と差別化する最も重要な方法は、情報に対してずば抜けた仕事をすることだ」という信念に基づき、中心に取り上げているコンセプトが「デジタル・ナーバス・システム(神経系統)」である。企業を人間に見立てたとき、その命令指揮系統や情報伝達手段が神経系統となる。その神経系統をデジタル化することで、企業組織を再創造していくことが重要だと説く。
本書は、技術の解説本ではない。新しい会社のあり方を示す経営書である。デジタル・ナーバス・システムがどのように会社の思考をスピードアップするのか、じっくり聞いてみよう。(田中良和)
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The book is peppered with examples of companies that have already successfully engineered information networks to manage inventory, sales, and customer relationships better. The examples run from Coca-Cola's ability to download sales data from vending machines to Microsoft's own internal practices, such as its reliance on e-mail for company-wide communication and the conversion of most paper processes to digital ones (an assertion that seems somewhat at odds with the now-infamous "by hand on sheets of paper" method of tracking profits that was revealed during Microsoft's antitrust trial).
While Gates breaks no new ground--dozens of authors have been writing about competing on a digital playing field for some time, among them Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian in Information Rules and Patricia Seybold in Customers.com--businesses that want a wakeup call may find this book a ringer. With excerpts in Time magazine, a dedicated Web site, and an all-out media assault, Microsoft is working hard to push Business @ the Speed of Thought into the national dialogue, and for many it will be difficult to see the book as anything but a finely tuned marketing campaign for the forthcoming versions of Windows NT and MS Office. Nevertheless, as Gates has shown time and time again, him, Microsoft, and perhaps even this book you may ignore at your own peril. --Harry C. Edwards
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Book Description
Changes are your company has a sizable investment in technology - and is realizing only 20 percent of its potential benefit. As Gates explains, you're probably viewing hardware and software as a way to solve specific problems. But like a living organism, an organization functions best if it can rely on a nervous system that will instantaneously deliver information to the parts that need it. In clear, nontechnical language, BUSINESS @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT shows you how a digital nervous system can unite all the systems and processes under one common infrastructure, releasing rivers of information and allowing your company to make a quantum leaps in efficiency, growth and profits.
With eye-opening, detailed tours, into Microsoft and other major corporations, Gates unveils the way digital nervous systems - from the simplest to the most sophisticated - are revolutionizing the very nature of business. You'll learn how integrated technology can:
* instantly access scattered information to analyze pattrens and trends
* decrease cycle time and get new products out before the competition
* deliver up-to-the-minute sales and inventory statistics on every one of your products, anywhere in the world
* help customers solve their own problems and, using intelligent software, automatically feed complaints to designers and line workers
.....and much more.
"I have the simple but strong belief," Gates writes. "How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose." BUSINESS @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT gives you the information you need to win.
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著者について
ビル・ゲイツ (Bill Gates)
マイクロソフト社会長兼最高ソウトウェア開発責任者。彼の将来ビジョンとパソコンに対する深い思い入れが、マイクロソフトの成功とソフトウエア技術の進歩に中心的役割を果たしてきた。妻のメリンダ、ムスメのジェニファーとともにシアトル地区に在住。
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大原 進 (おおはら・すすむ)
東北文化学園大学教授。 1954年東京外語大学卒、日本経済新聞社入社。1999年より現職。