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About the Author
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
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Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise
1.1
Tech’s Tectonic Shift: Radically Changing Business Landscapes
1.2
It’s Your Revolution
1.3
Geek Up—Tech Is Everywhere and You’ll Need It to Thrive
1.4
The Pages Ahead
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Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winners from Losers
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2.1
Introduction
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2.2
Powerful Resources
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Barriers to Entry, Technology, and Timing
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Key Framework: The Five Forces of Industry Competitive Advantage
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Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems
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3.1
Introduction
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3.2
Don’t Guess, Gather Data
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3.3
Moving Forward
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Netflix in Two Acts: The Making of an E-Commerce Giant and the Uncertain Future of Atoms to Bits
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4.1
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4.2
Act I: David Becomes Goliath: Crafting Killer Assets for DVD-by-Mail Dominance
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Act II: Netflix and the Shift from Mailing Atoms to Streaming Bits
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Moore’s Law and More: Fast, Cheap Computing, Disruptive Innovation, and What This Means for the Manager
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5.1
Introduction
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5.2
The Death of Moore’s Law?
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5.3
Bringing Brains Together: Supercomputing, Grids, Clusters, and Putting Smarts in the Cloud
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Disruptive Innovations: Understanding the Giant Killers and Considerations for Avoiding Extinction
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E-waste: The Dark Side of Moore’s Law
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Bitcoin: A Disruptive Innovation for Money and More?
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Amazon: An Empire Stretching from Cardboard Box to Kindle to Cloud
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6.1
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6.2
The Emperor of E-Commerce
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Kindle on Fire: The Rise of Digital, the Everywhere Store, and New Opportunities from e-Book, Tablet, TV, and Phone
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Amazon and the Cloud: From Personal Storage to AWS
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Understanding Network Effects: Strategies for Competing in a Platform-Centric, Winner-Take-All World
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7.1
Introduction
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7.2
Where’s All That Value Come From?
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7.3
One-Sided or Two-Sided Markets?
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How Are These Markets Different?
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7.5
Competing When Network Effects Matter
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Social Media, Peer Production, and Web 2.0
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8.1
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8.2
Blogs
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8.3
Wikis
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Social Networks
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Twitter and the Rise of Microblogging
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Prediction Markets and the Wisdom of Crowds
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Crowdsourcing
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Get SMART: The Social Media Awareness and Response Team
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The Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, and Creating More Efficient Markets through Technology
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9.1
Introduction
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Boom Times and Looming Challenges in the Sharing Economy
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Future Outlook: Established Players Get Collaborative
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9.4
Airbnb—Hey Stranger, Why Don’t You Stay at My Place?
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Uber: Tech-Fueled Superior Service Loved by All—Except Incumbents
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Facebook: A Billion-plus users and Big Business from the Social Graph
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10.1
Introduction
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10.2
Disrupting Competition, Building Competitive Advantage, and the Challenging Rise of Mobile
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10.3
Advertising and Social Networks: A Work in Progress
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A Platform Player that Moves Fast and Breaks Things: What All Managers Can Learn from Facebook’s Mistakes, Responses, and Pursuit of New Opportunities
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Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers
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11.1
Introduction
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11.2
Operating Systems
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Application Software
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Distributed Computing
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11.5
Writing Software
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Understanding Technology beyond the Price Tag: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the Cost of Tech Failure
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Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, and Virtualized and App-driven Shifts
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12.1
Introduction
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Open Source
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Why Open Source?
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12.4
Examples of Open Source Software
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Why Give It Away? The Business of Open Source
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12.6
Defining Cloud Computing
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Software in the Cloud: Why Buy When You Can Rent?
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12.8
SaaS: Not without Risks
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Understanding Cloud Computing Models: PaaS, IaaS, and Motivations and Risks
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Clouds and Tech Industry Impact
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Virtualization: Software That Makes One Computer Act Like Many
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Apps and App Stores: Further Disrupting the Software Industry on Smartphones, Tablets, and Beyond
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12.13
Make, Buy, or Rent
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The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Big Data, and Competitive Advantage
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13.1
Introduction
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13.2
Data, Information, and Knowledge
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Where Does Data Come From?
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Data Rich, Information Poor
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Data Warehouses, Data Marts, and Technology behind “Big Data”
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The Business Intelligence Toolkit
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Data Asset in Action: Technology and the Rise of Walmart
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Data Asset in Action: Caesars’ Solid Gold CRM for the Service Sector
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A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications
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14.1
Introduction
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14.2
Internet 101: Understanding How the Internet Works
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14.3
Getting Where You’re Going
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Last Mile: Faster Speed, Broader Access
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Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else)
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Why Is This Happening? Who Is Doing It? And What’s Their Motivation?
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Where Are Vulnerabilities? Understanding the Weaknesses
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15.4
Taking Action
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Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and Beyond
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Understanding Search
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Understanding the Increase in Online Ad Spending
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Search Advertising
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Ad Networks—Distribution beyond Search
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More Ad Formats and Payment Schemes
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Customer Profiling and Behavioral Targeting
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Profiling and Privacy
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Search Engines, Ad Networks, and Fraud
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The Battle Unfolds
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