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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they could leverage new information technologies to reengineer, reorganize and radically streamline their production and service delivery. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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Is the Drone's Potential Being Shot Down Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

Thus, mass-market drones clearly hold potential for what Paul Nunes and I call "big bang disruption." This is a kind of innovation that, thanks to fast-evolving technology, arrives in the marketplace simultaneously better, cheaper, and more capable of improving than the existing alternatives.

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How 'Aaron's Law' Is Good for Business

Harvard Business Review

Freedom of contract, however, proved inconvenient when mass markets arose, and companies needed to do business the same way with millions of customers at once. Handy as this hack was in the age of mass marketing, it has become a massive source of friction for everybody interacting with services on the internet today.