Business Strategy - Where is New Wealth Created? Center or Edge?

This is a 138 page study on telecommunications and economic growth.

Business strategists need to understand how changes in technology are impacting the creation of wealth. Or, as John Seely Brown and John Hagel put it in their new book The Only Sustainable Edge, they need to understand how business can build new capabilities. The authors assert that in a time of quickened technology development and a more tightly networked world, capability is built in loosely coupled, autonomous process networks that enable intelligent businesses at the center that understand and cooperate with this phenomenon to out perform businesses that don't. If they are correct, and I think they are indeed, then independent locally-controlled and operated telecommunications infrastructure becomes the most critical enabler for the new found wealth creating capability of the edges.

For more information about this study see http://www.cookreport.com/14.07.shtml