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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. Smartphones destroyed Nokia’s cell phone business.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today.