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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

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Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence. In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, As technologies converge, entire disciplines will have to work together in new ways.