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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers.

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7 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Most leaders have decades of experience focusing on assets like plants, real estate, inventory, and human capital. Working with these external groups requires new, co-creative leadership styles, but also can allow organizations to tap into enormous pools of capabilities and under-utilized resources.