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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Evaluate your leadership team’s openness to co-creation as well.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business Review

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? Customer intimacy. Industrial giants have well-established brands, built strong customer relationships, and signed long-term service contracts. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM?