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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. The first step is to pinpoint your starting place.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Intellectual capital.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

The sector has entities, too, to improve the flow of intellectual capital. Open source software enables entrepreneurs to stand up businesses capabilities quickly and cheaply; Sourceforge , for example, is a platform allowing 2.7 million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. We could go on, but we don't need to.