英特尔的总裁安迪·格罗夫曾说过一句耐人寻味的话:“在5年的时间里,所有的公司都将成为互联网公司——或者它们不再是公司。” 对中国的企业家们来说,这是一个耸人听闻的说法。我们很多企业可能刚刚听说过有互联网这么回事,中国上网人数仅有七八百万人,中国电子商务1999年按IDG的测算也不过才四千万美元,远远不到像联想这样一个大公司营业额的零头。我们值得现在就考虑互联网战略吗? 我的看法是,现在到了必须制订自己的互联网战略的时候了。也许格罗夫的预言不适合中国,也许在中国我们还有十年、十五年的时间。但一个企业若不从现在开始就思考和调整自己在网络经济时代自己的位置,将会被突如其来的发 Andy Grove, Intel’s president, once said in an intriguing way: “For five years all companies will become Internet companies - or they will no longer be corporations.” For Chinese entrepreneurs This is a sensational statement. Many of our business may have just heard of the Internet, the number of Internet users in China only 78 million people, China’s e-commerce in 1999 by IDG estimates of only 40 million US dollars, far less than such a Lenovo The big part of the turnover of the fraction. Is it worth considering the Internet strategy right now? My opinion is that it is time to formulate our own Internet strategy. Maybe Grove’s prophecy is not suitable for China, maybe in China we have ten years and fifteen years. However, if an enterprise does not think about and adjust its position in the Internet economy from now on, it will be suddenly sent