| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Select Endorsements | p. xv |
| The Event-Driven Company | p. 1 |
| The Event-Driven Revolution | p. 5 |
| The Global Networked Society | p. 10 |
| What I Believe | p. 13 |
| Event-Driven: The Metamanagement Theory | p. 16 |
| How Bechtel Corporation Is Event-Driven | p. 17 |
| The Age of Punctuated Equilibrium | p. 19 |
| It All Starts with the Customer | p. 22 |
| Let's Get Busy | p. 24 |
| There Are No Silver Bullets | p. 26 |
| Becoming Event-Driven | p. 27 |
| Is Yours an Event-Driven Company? | p. 28 |
| Your Company Needs to Change, but How? | p. 30 |
| Becoming Event-Driven: The Ultimate IT Upgrade | p. 34 |
| Your Dreams for Your Business | p. 35 |
| Some Advice about Becoming Event-Driven | p. 39 |
| From the Trading Floor to the Event-Driven Enterprise | p. 43 |
| The Event-Driven Warrior | p. 44 |
| Trading: The Oldest Human Profession | p. 46 |
| 85 Broad Street | p. 49 |
| The Way It Was | p. 52 |
| How the Trading Floor Eventually Became Event-Driven | p. 55 |
| The Event-Driven IT Architecture | p. 61 |
| From the Trading Floor to the Enterprise to the Internet | p. 62 |
| Information Is Knowledge Is Power | p. 65 |
| The Publish/Subscribe Paradigm | p. 67 |
| The Information Bus | p. 72 |
| Middleware and Infrastructure Software | p. 78 |
| Reliable Multicast/PGM | p. 81 |
| How NASDAQ Is Using Multicasting | p. 83 |
| Event-Driven Technology Infrastructure | p. 84 |
| Management by Exception | p. 98 |
| event-driven.com | p. 105 |
| Make the Internet Work for You | p. 106 |
| Extend Your Business with a Portal | p. 108 |
| How Sticky Is Your Portal? | p. 111 |
| Creating an E-Community | p. 113 |
| The EIP--Your Showroom for the Twenty-First Century | p. 115 |
| The Event-Driven Philosophy | p. 121 |
| "Contemporary" to "Cellular" | p. 122 |
| "Industry" to "Ecosystem" | p. 125 |
| Knowledge Management in the Event-Driven Company | p. 127 |
| All from Column A, All from Column B, All from Column C | p. 130 |
| Embedding Your Core Competencies | p. 132 |
| Leadership and Organization | p. 135 |
| The Star System | p. 136 |
| Compensation, Partnership, and Ownership | p. 140 |
| The Mission Statement: Guiding Star | p. 146 |
| Tips on How to Lead by Following | p. 149 |
| The Ecosystem: Competitors, Customers, and Partners | p. 151 |
| Competitors: A Fine Distraction | p. 152 |
| Customers and the Many Markets Inside Each One | p. 157 |
| Partners and Allies: Learning from Hollywood | p. 162 |
| Leading the Change to the Event-Driven Company | p. 165 |
| Beating the Odds | p. 166 |
| Leadership: Beyond Charisma | p. 169 |
| Missionaries | p. 171 |
| Overcoming Barriers to Change | p. 172 |
| Conclusion | p. 177 |
| The Age of the Knowledge Worker | p. 178 |
| How Becoming Event-Driven Can Spur Your Company's Productivity | p. 183 |
| The New Meaning of Life/Workspace | p. 184 |
| The Event-Driven Future | p. 185 |
| Glossary | p. 187 |
| References | p. 201 |
| Index | p. 207 |
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