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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. Any need or demand can and will be met faster than ever.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Space X carried out its first resupply mission in 2012 and Orbital Sciences in 2013.