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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. Each has moved beyond allowing customers to design their own products, to share value by acting as a platform to promote the customer networks’ talents and assets.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts. Most industries in the U.S.