Blown to Bits
How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
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Authors Evans and Wurster maintain that the central tenets of traditional business strategy have been “blown up” by the Internet, eliminating both borders and barriers long taken for granted as part of doing business, as well has hastening the development of standards and common connectivity for many years to come. They focus on several key pieces of what they call the “new economics of information,” including richness and reach, deconstruction, and disintermediation.
In This Summary, You Will Learn:
- How to create a wealth of new business opportunties by unbundling information.
- How to deconstruct ‘information’ and ‘things’ to gain a competitive advantage in your industry.
- Why the traditional modes and processes you’ve used to disseminate information in the past are no longer as powerful or valid as they once were.
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