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Will We Get a Second-Hand Market for Digital Goods?

Harvard Business Review

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. Or, to use the legal term, you license their use. In effect, ReDigi operates a market for license transfers among iTunes users.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. And, yes indeed, such models will demand a set of capabilities now alien to most care providers.

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3 Questions to Get the Most Out of Your Company’s Data

Harvard Business Review

“This isn’t possible in print, broadcast, or traditional films, which may be why the media industry is such a dysfunctional place,” Peretti has said. They’re important because they’re allowing businesses to develop new business models that better serve customers. Consider entertainment.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The results were amazing.