As the chairman, and CEO of Microsoft, the world's leading software provider, Bill Gates played a prominent role in launching the Info. Age. Now he reveals how expanding technology is propelling the bus. world into a new economic era -- how every manager can and must stay ahead of the curve. He shows you how a digital nervous system (DNS) can unite all systems and processes under one common infrastructure, releasing rivers of info. and allowing your co. to make quantum leaps in efficiency, growth and profits. With detailed tours into Microsoft and other major corp., Gates unveils the way that DNSs are revolutionizing the very nature of bus. He believes that ÔHow you gather, manage and use info. will determine whether you win or lose'.