A Thousand Tribes How Technology Unites People in Great Companies

The promise of the Internet fulfilled In this groundbreaking book, the experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers share their vision and astonishing track record for a new Internet model: "B-to-E," business-to-employee, or more appropriately, business-to-everything. In the B-to-E model, employees of large corporations can conduct all professional and personal business through a single corporate web portal. The result is not only a more integrated, dynamic corporate community, but also huge potential cost savings maximizing technology already in place. Illuminating case studies of Hewlett Packard, Ford Motor Company, and others demonstrate that the future of the Internet is as first promised: unified enterprises, empowered individuals, new horizons for both. Robin Lissack is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and an expert in B-to-E issues. George Bailey is the leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' B-to-E business in the western United States.

ROBIN LISSAK, PhD, PwCConsulting partner and global leader of the firms B2E Solution Set, has spent the past twenty years working with large, complex organizations on technology-based business transformation. He has spent his career building products and companies that use interactive technology to solve business problems. A resident of South Orange, New Jersey, Dr. Lissak and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of two daughters, Ilana and Rachel. His interests include his wine collection, nineteenth-century art, and the familys four golden retrievers. <p> BAILEY, PwC Consulting partner and a member of the B2E global leadership team, is an internationally recognized authority on strategic change. He has led large-scale, multiyear transformational projects for United States, European, and Asian companies across a variety of industries. A contributing author of Better Change and Paradox Principles, Mr. Bailey is frequently quoted on workplace issues. An avid sailor, he won the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1995. He works in San Francisco and lives in Novato with his wife, Susan, and children, Elizabeth, Anastasia, George, and Steven.