Companies guided by shortsighted or skeptical management risk forfeiting a window of opportunity for electronic experimentation.
Predictor: Chaturvedi, Alok
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Industry Week, David Bottoms quotes Alok Chaturvedi of Purdue University. Bottoms writes: ”Alok Chaturvedi of Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management contends that the [National Science Foundation] will eventually step aside, opening the Net for widespread commercialization like the CommerceNet trial. ‘Today, manufacturers are there [on the Internet] setting up shop, planning for the future,’ he adds. Companies guided by shortsighted or skeptical management risk forfeiting a window of opportunity for electronic experimentation, a mistake Mr. Chaturvedi labels ‘disastrous.’ However, a panelist at a recent Internet Business conference declared, ‘We’re only five minutes into this next generation – there’s still plenty of time to get on.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-commerce
Name of publication: Industry Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The ‘Net’ Gets Raised
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/313/152/36148316w1/purl=rc2_ITOF_1_the+net+gets+raised_xx__1994______Industry+Week________________________________________________&dyn=sig!1?sw_aep=ncliveec
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