Many powerful trends are forcing large-scale changes in every sphere of human activity: economic, financial, political, social, cultural, technological, ... For details about these multi-disciplinary changes, forces and triggers, please visit 'the Net economy' blog.

In addition to the regular demands of operating your business, these large-scale changes make it an imperative to rethink how you are running your business -- large or small -- for long term sustainability.

Fortunately, developments in the communication and information technology fields have resulted in tools to make the necessary transformation manageable. For example, capabilities available on this website (yola.com) or related blog (WordPress.com) are new -- still evolving and improving ...

Take another example. This 1956-state-of-the-art 5 Megabyte disk drive, barely capable of storing two mp3 music files, required a fork-lift to be moved. And Seagate just introduced a 3 Terrabyte disk drive under $250, capable of storing practically unlimited number of mp3 music files, that even a child could carry.

The examples are illustrations of the exponential capacity and performance improvements in information storing, processing and transporting capabilities developed in the recent past. However, these capabilities have not been put into everyday use.