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The Role of Social In The Future Enterprise
Social media is like search engine optimization. It is easy to self-educate, it is slightly complex, but it is also game-like. In both cases the market or audience gives you feedback – you get likes or...
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Connection
After the first edition of The Elastic Enterprise the idea of connectors, one of the five dynamics we identified, took root in the business community. In the space of a couple of years new ideas...
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Platform
How we define a business platform goes a long way to shaping how we see the new economy. In my view there is no satisfactory definition out there yet. Alex Moazed, CEO of Applico Inc, had a go at...
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Does A Platform Imply A Two-Sided Market?
Digging deeper into how platforms are conceived, used and then managed, it is worth asking do they always imply a two-sided market? The idea of the two-sided market stems from work by Parker & Van...
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The Case Of Fidelity And Platform Services
Most of us think that banks lack true innovative power. I guess that’s true in a structural sense – they have huge legacy systems and to release any kind of integrated applications have to do a lot of...
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The Platform Economy
The platform economy is finally attracting much wider attention than when we began this site five years ago. Companies like Airbnb were startups when we first started to write about them as platform...
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A Platform’s Role is to Reduce Friction, so Say Hello to Stripe Atlas
The platform is the single biggest agent in the economy for reducing business friction. It’s also a strategy for market domination because of the advantages a platform can offer to customers. We said...
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Ecosystem, innovation ecosystem, and Platform: Finding the right combination
In the world of business platforms, the ecosystem features large – but how many of us understand what ecosystems are, in business at least, or how ecosystems function? The idea of a business ecosystem...
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The Economic Baloney of The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is one of those phrases that make it very difficult to be mean. Who could diss it? It’s nice. The fact is, the sharing economy does not stand up to a whole lot of scrutiny. No doubt...
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Platform Disruption of Global Trade
Platform Disruption is part of the geopolitical shift that is diminishing the power of the US economy in favor of China. I’m sure Americans will look back at the Obama years and puzzle over whether...
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