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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

” The Danger of Disintermediation. Already, consumers are being disintermediated from traditional brand choices via search engine and online retailer algorithms that determine which products are presented to consumers, and in what sequence. It is time to rethink everything you do from the consumer’s perspective.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business Review

Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process. Plus, it can be difficult for the average person to accumulate enough points to earn a meaningful reward. The Benefits of Disruption.

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