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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

It starts by understanding customers’ affinity with the brands. Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. These four types of customers represent different levels of brand affinity: 1.

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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

Harvard Business Review

For example, we are building a development platform for the iPad, and defining how it will interact with our electronic medical record system. Yet at the same time they use these standards as a springboard for creating unique solutions for each customer based on a deep understanding of their needs. (I