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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

How well do you know your customers? This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers.

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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? We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Customer intimacy. Ford or Tesla?