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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers. Insight Center.

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Start-ups: Before You Launch Your Product, Start With a Service

Harvard Business Review

Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. But from where I sit, bootstrapping products with services is a tried and true method. AgilOne, a company that provides cloud-based predictive customer analytics, was founded by Omer Artun in 2006.