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Eric Jacobson

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Paris.

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How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, And Adapt

Eric Jacobson

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Paris.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited. Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. Sprint Nextel recently inked a seven-year deal to outsource operation of its networks to Ericsson, a contract said to be worth $5 billion.

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Platforms Are the New Foundation of Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates.

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How eBay and Facebook are Cleaning Up Data Centers

Harvard Business Review

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. It's still about efficiency, it's still about flexibility and agility," he said. China, Russia, and Japan. We all face the same problems, it's just a difference of scale.

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