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Panel dicussion on the information highway featuring information experts Barry Weintrob, David Dell, Philip R. Ladoucer, Matthew McGarvey and Ronald Parker - The Information Highway - Panel Discussion
The still-evolving information highway promises to revolutionize the way the communications networks of the US are used to develop new business opportunities. Among others, it will allow small businesses to expand into new markets in a cost-effective manner, while permitting larger companies to leverage information technologies in a manner that improves the efficiency of service delivery. It will also help to realign the relationship existing between the public, industry and the government. Popular information applications such as video-on-demand, home shopping, reservation systems and multimedia services are among the sectors that are likely to flourish with the setting up of the information highway in the mid- to late 1990s. Dramatic technological change is expected to be the principal stimulus for its development, while government support for R&D and private sector participation will ultimately determine its acceptability to the public.See the full content of this document
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The promise and the peril.
Everybody's talking about the information highway. Who will be the players? How will we choose them? Who will be left behind? Will big companies fare better than small companies, or vice versa? How will firms on the highway relate to their clients, their suppliers, their banks, their employees? Would a healthy dose of fear do us all some good? Do we really need a highway?
Financial Executive talked about these and other issues with some of the primary drivers on the highway in a roundtable held this spring. The participants were: * Barry Weintrob, the CFO of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of FEI's Committee on Information Management and moderator of the panel discussion; * David Dell, a director at Digital Products Corp. and also a member of FEI's CIM; * Philip R. Ladouceur, president and CEO of Information Systems Management Corp. in Alberta, Canada, and a member of CIM; * Matthew McGarvey, the director of financial infrastructure at Bell Atlantic; and * Ronald Parker, the manager of human-resources information technology for IBM. Here's the picture the group painted. BARRY WEINTROB: Just what is the information highway? MATTHEW MCGARVEY: I think the ultimate vision is a digital, end-to-end communications system with interactive broad-band capability, but that probably won't come about until after the turn of the century. Of course, that begs the question, how do we get there? How do we implement that vision? I think initially we ha...See the full content of this document
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