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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

As the economy has evolved from one age to another (from industrial to services to information to network), our basic measurement systems have not kept pace. It struggles to account for today’s intangible assets—services, insights, and networks.

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