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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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jean lievens
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A study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting finds that companies now face a digital imperative: adopt new technologies effectively or face competitive obsolescence. While there is consensus on the importance of adopting digital technology, most employees find the process complex and slow. Many say their leaders lack urgency and fail to share a vision for how technology can change the business. Companies that succeed tend to have leaders who share their vision and define a road map, create cross-organizational authority for adoption and reward employees for working towards it. 
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We have the first generation to come of age in the digital age, and these kids are different. They’re the biggest generation ever, and they think, and work, and play, and collaborate very differently than their parents, and there’s no more powerful force to change every institution than the first
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Intel and Arduino hope to inspire creativity in the Arduino open-source hardware community.
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Business models for everything from crash pads to cocktail dresses have been disrupted by this new trend. Is your business next? (How Will the Sharing Economy Disrupt Your Business?
EZIA's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 9:55 PM
Interesting article - will your business be affected?
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Summary: Microsoft will unveil its latest Surface devices, which illustrate why the hardware fascination in Redmond may be the wrong path to take. Software anywhere trumps devices and services as a model.
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The Guardian website noted that the promise of business-model innovation has long captivated the sustainability field, generating plenty of hype. But all the talk has yet to yield many real business-model changes.
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The marginal cost of software - the natural price - is $0. It's why open source is possible, and app store developers should look there for inspiration.
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IBM recently conducted its in-person analysis with more than 4,000 C-suite leaders by using a global team of business strategists, consultants, data scientists and statisticians. The IBM C-Suite study 2013, reveals how CEOs are opening up to customer influence, fusing the digital with the physical and crafting superior customer experience. Jeby Cherian, Vice President & Managing Partner, Global Business Services, IBM India & South Asia shares more details about the study
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When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band’s frontman didn’t have high hopes about the streaming music service. He loves the platform and subscribes to it but didn’t think Spotify would help his band this early in its career.
Colin Begin's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 11:59 AM
After reading this, it really shows the importance of social media in this generation. With so much technology today, spotify is a great way to get you're music out there. Social medias play a huge role, In this day and age, sites like facebook, twitter, and instagram, are the sites that most people go on and retrieve daily information about music as well as many other things. 
Courtney Aiello's curator insight,
October 10, 2013 11:41 AM
I originally subscribed to Spotify thinking it wouldn't last either, but with their user-generated playlists (something that Apple slowly erased from iTunes) it is gaining momentum. It's not suprising to learn, either, that Sean Parker was an early investor-Napster was the ancestor of Spotify. It will be interesting looking forward to see how many lesser-known bands will gain new followers from Spotify.
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Traditionally software platforms such as databases and operating systems were developed by corporations like Microsoft and Oracle. They made their money on licensing proprietary software and left it to partners to implement and maintain the systems. This model seems to be turned on its head with many new companies based on open source technologies.
Rakesh Guptha's curator insight,
October 26, 2013 11:29 PM
As long as the myths associated with open source software get wiped off, no! Open source can have a long life span in terms of business use if it gets commercial elements like wordpress and others do.
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Amazon isn’t a tech company or a reseller or a services company. It’s a centralized repository for commerce. Products flow in and leave with as little friction as possible. When you have a problem you simply write a few lines and your return is processed. When your Kindle breaks, you press a button and Dylan pops into your world and helps you out. When something slips, Bezos knows how to route around the damage.
jean lievens's insight:
nothing to do with p2p, but important from a point of view of the business model
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"There is only one way to ensure that a company will make decisions in the interests of the people it serves: Put those people in control of the company. So let me introduce the T corporation. Most business-savvy people know that there are S corporations (Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code) and C corporations (Subchapter C), but almost no one thinks about forming a T corporation (Subchapter T). But T corporations have been around for a long time, and they have a major benefit of not paying tax if 1) they are governed democratically by the shareholders (i.e., everyone gets one vote in the election of the board, regardless of share value) and 2) the earnings of the company are distributed to the shareholders on the basis of how much they patronize (i.e. do business with) the company.
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The authors have through this research determined that the artists in the Norwegian recording industry have 4 main sources of income: live revenue, state subsidization and grants, collection distributed to artists, and sales of music physically and digitally. It turned out the declining record sales, which dominate the media picture, only amounted to about 19% of the total artist income in 1999. Today after many years of decline it is 11% of the total income for artists. As such the media were right to point out that record sales are dropping and income will decline, however the total importance of this income source was never more than 20%. This is a reflection of the calculations that from a record sold from producer to retailer, only about 20% in average of the sales amount is returned to the record artists. Live revenue on the other hand has an artist share of about 50% from all income and hence all income increases here will have a larger effect both negatively and positively if the total amount in the industry changes.
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