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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. Facebook took 17 years and Bitcoin took only 12 years to achieve this milestone. Compete for data supremacy.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves.

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Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as "The Record Business"

Harvard Business Review

For emerging artists this is particularly precarious, since careers are too often ended early if a first set of recordings fail to sell. The key to artist-management success is identifying talent early and developing it cost-effectively over a long period of time. So how should a "content producer" behave in this new environment?