Internet.......is it being fully utilised or exploited???

Internet................... is it being fully utilised or exploited???

How often have we tried listing the benefits of Internet and how far we are using it to its full potential.

Will be amazed that we are not even half way through towards that!!

The Business communications have seen a see of change in the last decade. I still remember days when we had to physically deliver all the quotations and communications to our customers and vendors. Few of the demanding customers have made us send revised quotations as many as half a dozen times. And they would want it in less than half an hour!!!

Thanks to email revolution, we are not averse to sending any number of revised quotations, since it just takes a few seconds to few minutes to send in a communication.

We are able to chat, video confer, transfer documents, information and data in a short time and the cost of communication has reduced drastically.

Thanks to the powerful search engines, and the collective knowledge of the world, we get most of the information needed in a touch of a button.

The tools to advertise, brand building, and support have all changed for good.

Able to search and locate friends and contacts who have been untraceable for years together, find the exact location while driving the car or in a new place, getting the prices of interested items, and buying online, booking travel tickets and hotels, track the courier consignment.......................

Banking is one sector which has benefited enormously through internet, right from checking the balances, online banking, to reducing the visits to the banks to the minimum, thanks to ATMs, to transferring to locations across the globe in matter of hours at reduced costs, making payments to various services online...................

Servers, VPN, etc have broken the barriers of time and distance.................

Friends and relatives sharing information from photos to videos, public domains with their activities, sharing useful and wasteful information. What about the social networking sites, which has changed the way people share information, communicate, love, hate, cheat, get cheated, earn and loose friends, customers, and the e world is travelling towards virtual relationships, and the trend to encash this scenerio for business promotions is fast catchingup.

We are selling and buying without meeting each other.... topographical limitations hardly exist........

The services and post sale support by companies turning towards voice interactive solutions to save time and money(though testing the patience of the one who dials)

Looking back, it is amasing how internet has changed the economy and the way business is done.

Is it not time to sit back, take stock of how well we exploit internet for our businesses to increase efficiency, save time and man power?