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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

This is typical of the stage of Big Bang Disruption we refer to as “Entropy,” when the supply chain supporting products and services displaced by a disruptive innovation collapse into a kind of economic black hole. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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How Technology Is Transforming Retail - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Ocado

Harvard Business Review

Postal services are becoming fulfilment platforms, taxis are delivering parcels and food, recipe box companies are eating the lunch of restaurants and grocery retailers, and so on. In a similar fashion, the explosion of low-cost, easy-to-use, embedded hardware platforms is enabling almost anyone to become an IoT player, including makers.

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