Blown to Bits
From Wikireedia
Causes
- Information is the glue that keeps the Supply Chain together, but its melting.
- Informational value chain separate from the physical and release economic value
- Blowing up the Trade Off - The line is now much further to the right with the internet - eg both Richness and Reach
Consequences
- Deconstruction and Disintermediation - of traditional Suuply chain which is then reconstrcuted - Middlemen will disappear
- The greater reach of navigators will shift power from sellers to buyers
- Uncertainty as to what and who will control new standards - Increasingly selling information - Extranets will lower transaction costs
- Traditional organisations will be replaced by Teams