To discuss the Oct. 30 Cover Story on IBM's new strategy, the guest was John M. Whiteside, general manager of the IBM Global Network, on stage with Ira Sager of Business Week. CEO Louis V. Gerstner's new vision for Big Blue is called network-centric computing, and it's a strategy to speed up the giant's slow growth of the last 10 years, with a focus on networked computing and electronic commerce.