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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers.