Whatever happened to dis-intermediation?
Sean McGrath, ITworld.com
Do you remember the beginnings of the "the Web changes everything" e-commerce boom? The word dis-intermediation seemed to be on the lips of everyone reading the tea leaves at the time.
It would only be a matter of time (or so we were told) before the Internet ushered in a whole new era. An era in which consumers and producers interact directly without middle-men taking cuts along the way. The Web (or so we were told) would reduce both the cost of selling and the cost of buying resulting in - gasp! - lower costs all round. ... Continue reading Re-intermediating the dis-intermediated
Do you remember the beginnings of the "the Web changes everything" e-commerce boom? The word dis-intermediation seemed to be on the lips of everyone reading the tea leaves at the time.
It would only be a matter of time (or so we were told) before the Internet ushered in a whole new era. An era in which consumers and producers interact directly without middle-men taking cuts along the way. The Web (or so we were told) would reduce both the cost of selling and the cost of buying resulting in - gasp! - lower costs all round. ... Continue reading Re-intermediating the dis-intermediated
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