Internet-Enabled Business Intelligence

Chapter 4. The Web-Enabled Information Infrastructure

	Every economy needs a national information infrastructure. This is the utility of the twenty-first century—a broadband highway for a broadband, high-capacity economy. And every organization needs to plug into this utility with an enterprise information infrastructure. The new infrastructure will change economic activity as significantly as did electrification. Just as business and wealth creation would be unthinkable today without electrification, so the new economy would be impossible without the power of information.
	--Don TapscottThe Digital Economy[1]

Let us consider the nervous system of an organism again. If we look at the entire nervous system, we see that it permeates the entire organism. ...