Cutting Through the "On Demand" Hype

With ongoing economic uncertainty putting a premium on business agility, technology companies are offering up visions for new computing and business process models. Here's a primer on the new models and their potential implications for the supply and demand chain.

[From Supply & Demand Chain Executive, December2003/January 2004] Grid computing. Utility computing. Organic IT. e-Business on demand. Adaptive enterprise. Seems like with every passing week some new catchphrase pops up to seize the attention and imagination of the information technology (IT) marketplace.

It would be easy