Infrastructure has provided the path to increase commerce and trade for over 5,000 years. It has created trade routes by overcoming natural obstacles ranging from spanning rivers and gorges, to providing access by land (roads and railroads), sea (docks and ports) and air (airports) to places which we want to do business with.
Today, trade routes have become electronic. Broadband connectivity has created a new layer of infrastructure within the “Platform for Commerce.”
Many educational institutions lag behind offering solutions to what is needed to solve today’s, as well as tomorrow’s, business problems tied to infrastructure. Traditional approaches and curricula at these organizations provide answers that do not satisfy today’s questions. As I say in my book, “21st century problems cannot be solved with 20th century solutions.”