Lindahl: 'Click' Is Simply Extension Of The 'Brick' Economy
Jan. 13, 2005
By John S. McClenahen You won't hear Gran Lindahl, who retired this past Dec. 31 as president and CEO of the Zurich-based ABB Group, talking about "old" and "new" economies. "The 'click' economy -- to me -- is not a new economy. This is just an ...
ByJohn S. McClenahen You won't hear Gran Lindahl, who retired this past Dec. 31 as president and CEO of the Zurich-based ABB Group, talking about "old" and "new" economies. "The 'click' economy -- to me -- is not a new economy. This is just an extension of the classical economy," he insists. "For me, the 'click' economy is [simply] a tool in the toolkit" to achieve business objectives, he stresses. "To me . . . an exchange in itself does not contribute any revenues -- at least nothing to measure. But fill it with the products and systems [and] services from the classical economy, then suddenly you have revenues [and] then you have earnings there."