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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. Intellectual capital.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. Half a billion dollars in lost productivity sounds like a big number. That number, per the FBI , is nearly $500 billion.