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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The amount of time it took to deliver the results to the global audience was, in fact, 30 times faster than the race itself—and at the same time, 15 other Olympic competitions were simultaneously having their results relayed. Together they develop a complete understanding of what the organizers, competitors, and audience expect.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.