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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System [Audio Download]

by Bill Gates (Author, Narrator), Roger Steffens (Narrator)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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  • Listening Length: 6 hours
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Audible Release Date: 16 Dec 1999
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQAXC4
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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As the cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world's leading provider of software for personal computers, Bill Gates played a prominent role in launching the Information Age. Now this modern visionary reveals how expanding technology is propelling the business world into an exciting new economic era...how every manager can - and must - stay ahead of the curve...and how integrated information systems can help every organization achieve Business @ the Speed of Thought. This program is narrated by Roger Steffens and includes commentary by the author.
©1999 by William H. Gates, III, All Rights Reserved; (P)1999 by William H. Gates, III; ©1999 Time Warner AudioBooks (Packaging Elements Only), A Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I found this book very useful in explaining the way that IT can be applied by businesses, large and small.

Although much of the information contained in the book is well recognised within the IT industry, the message still hasn't hit home for many business owners and managers.

Working in systems development, I still find that senior managers barely have a grasp of IT at all, let alone how it is going to shape their industry.

The message from this book is very timely, and is directed at the right audience. The limiting factor in business today is not IT, but people's ability to exploit it. I think that this has been true for a long time now !

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Format:Audio Cassette
THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD WITH INTERESTING TOPICS ETC. but the narrator is so boring! The man who reads this has no enthusiasm to his voice and just goes on in the same pitch throughout the whole cassette and you just find yourself drifting off and not listening. I thought it might just be me so got a second and third opinion and everyone agrees the guy audio version should be read by someone much more dynamic than this guy. Bill Gates obviously hasn't listened to tape!! Anyway the book itself is very good and well worth reading in its paper format! It is very interesting and covers all issues of the digital nervous system and how this will affect everyday life in the future. Quite exiting concepts for us all!
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For the budding entrepreneur or business man this is a must. All CEOs,directors should have it as a bible.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
OK, let's be honest . . .
Having read his previous book 'The Way Ahead' which was backed up by an excellent CD, I found 'Business @ the Speed of Thought' to be a little on the 'mild' side. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2009 by Jonathan Kettleborough
Sharing Is Good, But What Should Be Shared?
One of the primary benefits of a human nervous system is to allow the senses and the mind to be in close contact. Read more
Published on 28 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Good book on how to do business in the 21st Century
I really enjoyed this book. I work in the public sector and thought that some of it might be irrelevant to me - but it was all very interesting. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2001 by Bobby Elliott
Excellent overview to ensure business embraces technology
This book provides an excellent overview of how a business needs to adapt its internal business systems to survive, adapt and embrace the latest technology. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2000
Can the World's Foremost Copier Be a Visionary?
Microsoft is renowned for watching trends, finding the best provider of new ideas and services, and buying/copying that innovation. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 1999
My name is Bill...
...resistance is futile.

Synopsis: Microsoft are great. Technology is great. Microsoft techology is great. Buy Microsoft technology. I am Bill, I am great. Read more

Published on 10 Jun 1999
great for the beginner - fewer ideas for the initiated
Overall I found the book interesting but more as a reminder of things I had read elsewhere. Many of the ideas, e.g. Read more
Published on 26 April 1999
A view of the future
This is an excellent book that I would recommend to ANY business owner. Gates manages to buil on "The road ahead" by keeping the book to a minumum of jargon. Read more
Published on 23 April 1999
Blatant commercial
This is quite simply a customer paid-for commercial for Microsoft technology. In many cases trying to frighten organisations into adopting new technology - not for planned... Read more
Published on 15 April 1999
SOFTWARE STALLS
BUSINESS @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT clearly shows the risk of creating even more harm from GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT. Read more
Published on 9 April 1999
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