The buzz: “Products have features. Platforms have communities” (Marshall Van Alstyne, MIT Initiative of the Digital Economy). It’s almost the end of 2018 and your same-old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you, whatever your industry, business type or global footprint. What to do? The largest businesses by market capitalization are platform-based models that have disrupted legacy business models, established industries, and grown at phenomenal rates. And they did not do it alone. The experts speak. Thorsten Leiduck: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to g
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