Customer-Driven It: How Users Are Shaping Technology Industry Growth

Predicting the future of information technology isn't easy--even the mighty Bill Gates long underestimated the influence of the Web--but Moschella is confident enough to do some prognosticating in this innovative book. The Computerworld columnist suggests a major power shift is underway, away from suppliers and toward customers. Through a kind of democratization of IT uses--for popular sites like Amazon.com, eBay and E*TRADE, among others--what customers need and demand will be what drives the future of the industry. Moschella runs readers through a history of the field and looks particularly at past introductions of technologies like radio and TV to see what lessons readers can learn about how the Web is being accepted economy-wide. This is more a book for hardcore industry wonks than it is for average lay readers, but it neatly distills the major technological advances of this century and peers into the future, to tell readers what other changes are in store for the world of IT.