May 29, 2000
| Redefining Business: That Thing You Do | |
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E-business soul-searching may be the key to some companies' survival Business incubators offer more than traditional venture-capital firms--but at what price? The next big breakthrough for business-to-business marketplaces will come from mirroring real-world contracts Beware The Hype And The Anti-Hype In the end, the Internet is merely a new channel for conducting business Old Ideas Work For New Economy Technologists who remain ignorant about business do so at their peril |
![]() Doug Faherty, L.L. Bean's director of database marketing, is helping steer the 88-year-old catalog company toward becoming a "multiple-channel retailer." |
| Photo by Stephen Sherman | |
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