Problem
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Internet strategy
AI-enabled enterprise
digital connectivity
enterprise strategy
platformization
Internet and Enterprise Strategy Revisited: From Digital Connectivity to AI-Enabled Enterprises, 1996 - 2026
🤖 AI Summary
This study evaluates the evolution and applicability of 1996 Internet strategy theory within AI-driven enterprise environments. It proposes a strategic extension framework transitioning from digital connectivity to AI systems, employing structured historical comparison to conduct cross-temporal analysis across platformization, data governance, algorithmic coordination, and geopolitics. The research validates early strategic predictions while demonstrating that contemporary AI ecosystems have transcended the original theoretical boundaries, highlighting the pivotal roles of algorithmic coordination and ecosystem engagement. Ultimately, this work provides essential theoretical foundations and practical guidance for the strategic reconfiguration of AI-empowered enterprises.
📝 Abstract
This paper revisits the 1996 article Internet and Enterprise Strategy and assesses how its propositions were confirmed, transformed, or contradicted as digital connectivity evolved into an AI-enabled enterprise environment by 2026. The reassessment combines historical interpretation with a structured comparison of Internet-enabled capabilities, industry structure, value-chain transformation, platform intermediation, cybersecurity, data governance, artificial intelligence, and digital sovereignty. The analysis shows that the article correctly anticipated the strategic relevance of electronic markets, cybermediaries, transaction security, online communities, and internal rules for Internet use. However, the contemporary Internet exceeds the original framing: it is now a platformized, data-intensive, cloud-dependent, regulated, geopolitically contested, and increasingly AI-mediated environment. The paper argues that this progression from connectivity to AI-enabled enterprise systems does not replace Internet strategy; it extends it. For many firms, enterprise strategy is now enacted through digital infrastructures, algorithmic coordination, ecosystem participation, and governance capabilities.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
AI-enabled enterprises
digital connectivity
algorithmic coordination
platform intermediation
data governance
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