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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Through co-creation, companies can access a deep well of customer capabilities, knowledge and assets. Four levels of affinity. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in history, the predictive future — the increasing awareness and likelihood of potential future actions and outcomes — is within reach. To apply analytics to the future, though, self-knowledge is insufficient. In short, from many to one to many.