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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. .”

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The scale of the lobbying effort to defeat these privacy regulations was so unprecedented that it caused EU Commissioner Viviane Reding to say that "I have not seen such a heavy lobbying operation.". Government Information & technology' And you could even see symptoms of the problem overseas.

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