Napster's game was ultimately found illegal (it was essentially based on theft), but Jobs saw that the technology could create a legal market by ensuring the music industry a stream of revenues.

In this paper I will introduce the major components of the value stream and explain how decisions flow to realize lower IT costs while simultaneously increasing company revenues.

Many economists fret about an unpleasant scenario in 2011, when the stream of stimulus money will ebb, reserves will have been drained and revenues will still be meagre.