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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. It has mainly disrupted the hotel chains, which are not platforms, but it may well disrupt online booking sites, which are. Platforms are all the rage these days.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So it is with innovation.