During 1995 and 1996 a team from industry and academe have applied state-of-the-market electronic comerce tools to existing business practices. This program is called the "Nationwide Electronics Industry Sector Pilot (NEISP)" and is funded by ARPA, the Advanced Research Porject Agency, through the U.S. Air Force.~1 Through a controled experimental approach that measured the "as is" of each business process, the team has been able to measure the fundamental shifts in business practice from a time domain. In each case significant time savings has accured. Now the team is developing the necessary business arguments to convert that time savings into business worth.
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