由 Vertical Integration 蛻變到 Virtual Integration 爲主導的企業新世代，終於來臨了！不僅是在個別的企業中發生，更是藉互聯網動力全球性地在業界中出現.... 正如早在上世紀八十年代末，美國麻省理工學院 (MIT) 教授 Tom Malone 所預言：互聯網將導致大企業分散重組--decentralize and externalize ，構成新的企業生態。
理由嗎？十分簡單：典型的二十世紀大企業的優勢，是整合經營，務求「肥水不流別人田」，把交易成本 (transaction costs) 減至最低。今天，透過環球分散式的資訊網絡聯繫，互聯網成了「工作平台」，複雜的工序在其上得以「拆細重組」，讓任何個別工作者都可以參與競爭，不單打破了地域的限制，更打開無限創新空間，使經營效益大大提高。就如 The World is Flat 一書的作者 Thomas Friedman 在這段短片所描述的。
但環顧全球跨國企業，廿多年來，上述的分拆重組不單並未出現，反倒在牛氣十足的股市催逼下不斷膨漲。直至2008年9月，隨著次按危機爆發，美國投資銀行開始接連倒閉或被逼轉型，各大企業相應收縮，國際社會才猛然警覺，這並非一場週期性的經濟調整，而是一次劃時代的全球政經運作模式徹底轉變....
危機過後，隨之而來的廿一世紀經濟，將會是個甚麼樣子？最新一期的權威 I T 科技雜誌 Wired Magazine, 刊登了四篇有關文章：
- The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity
- Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guys Drive
- Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
- The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
- The next new economy, the one rising from the ashes of this latest meltdown, will favor the small！
- The rise of cloud computing means that young firms no longer have to buy their own IT equipment, which helps them avoid having to raise money or take on debt.
- Likewise, the webification of the supply chain in many industries, from electronics to apparel, means that even the tiniest companies can now order globally, just like the giants.
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