This sentiment, cribbed from science fiction writer William Gibson, is both dogma and sales slogan at Andersen Consulting. The firm's 1,250 million-dollar partners and 64,000 minions have built a $10-billion-a-year business in pursuit of it. In the 1990s Andersen's experts have grabbed an unevenly large slice of the future by overhauling the digital plumbing of 5,000 clients. Now they want to get a bigger share by taking control of your data and telling you how to run your business in a New Wave world where everything—workers, customers, suppliers, partners, gadgets, databases—is connected to everything else.
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