Marketplaces continue to attract the interest of businesses seeking to find new models to grow. And for good reason: marketplaces provide tremendous growth opportunities to extend a business by creating...
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Sustainability is more than a buzzword. Sustainability is increasingly a way of doing business. In fact, Patagonia’s mission is, quite simply, to save the planet. And Patagonia isn’t the only...
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CES 2019 was only hours old, and the battle for the voice-first world was already an emerging storyline as it was at CES 2018. The…
Digital invaders are also digital partners. New McKinsey research shows that incumbent financial services firms are willing to partner with the very fintech firms that have been disrupting their industry....
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“The Internet of everything needs a ledger of everything for it to work.” Don Tapscott, coauthor of Blockchain Revolution (Portfolio, 2016) I get it: you’ve heard of blockchain, but it’s not always...
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Amazon Go has been called the future of retail and the demise of humanity. So, naturally, we just had to check out this much-discussed store without cashiers when one opened...
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The evolution of online marketplaces demonstrates how large enterprises can successfully embrace business models that emerged from smaller businesses. Digital darlings such as eBay and…
When you binge-watch your favorite TV show on Netflix, you’re also spending some quality time with Amazon Web Services, the cloud platform that Netflix relies on to feed a steady...
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Western businesses operating in China are vulnerable to the BAT blind spot – or a failure to understand the impact of Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, collectively known as BAT. No...
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To succeed in China, Western businesses need to respect the power of the super app. In the United States, businesses assume a customer’s path to purchase covers multiple disconnected touch...
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