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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

” ”Platformization” dissolves once-meaningful distinctions between product vs. process competitive advantage. .” ” ”Platformization” dissolves once-meaningful distinctions between product vs. process competitive advantage.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer. Finally, a movie’s performance was judged by its U.S. box office revenue.

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