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Acknowledgments
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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 Achieving Success
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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—Make Small Batches of What Customers Want & Ship It Fast!
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3.3
Moving Forward
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Netflix in Two Acts: Sustaining Leadership in an Epic Shift from 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, and What This Means for the Manager
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5.1
Introduction
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The Death of Moore’s Law?
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The Power of Parallel: Supercomputing, Grids, Clusters, and Putting Smarts in the Cloud
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E-waste: The Dark Side of Moore’s Law
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Mickey’s Wearable: Disney’s Magic Band
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Disruptive Technologies: Understanding Giant Killers and Tactics to Avoid Extinction
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6.1
Introduction
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From Bitcoin to Blockchain and Beyond: 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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7.1
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The Emperor of E-Commerce
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The Lord of Logistics
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Beyond Clicks: More Bricks
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Amazon's Disruptive Consumer Hardware Businesses: Kindle, Fire, Alexa, and More
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Amazon and the Cloud: From Personal Storage to AWS
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Platforms, Network Effects, and Competing in a Winner-Take-All World
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8.1
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8.2
Platforms Are Powerful, But Where Does All That Value Come From?
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One-Sided or Two-Sided Markets?
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How Are These Markets Different?
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8.5
Competing When Network Effects Matter
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Social Media, Peer Production, and Leveraging the Crowd
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9.1
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9.2
Blogs
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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 Efficient Markets through Tech
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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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Airbnb—Hey Stranger, Why Don’t You Stay at My Place?
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Uber's Wild Ride: Sharing Economy Success, Public Company Concerns, and Lessons from a Fallen Founder
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Facebook: Platforms, Privacy, and Big Business from the Social Graph
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11.1
Introduction
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Lengthening Leaders, Quick Catch-Ups, and the Challenging Rise of Mobile
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Lessons from Platform Facebook: Big Growth, Bad Partners, APIs, and a Mobile Melee
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Advertising and Social Networks: A Challenging Landscape but a Big Payoff
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Move Fast and Break Things: Fumbles, Fake News, and Global Growth Challenges
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Rent the Runway: Entrepreneurs Expanding an Industry by Blending Tech with Fashion
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12.1
Introduction
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12.2
Founding the Business: Are We On to Something?
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Customer Engagement (Mobile, Social, and Physical Storefronts)
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Data
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Operations and Logistics
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Subscription: Bigger than Rental
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12.7
Conclusion
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Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers
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13.1
Introduction
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13.2
Operating Systems
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13.3
Application Software: Apps, Desktop Products, and Enterprise Systems
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Distributed Computing, Web Services, and APIs: The Platform Builders
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13.5
Writing Software
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13.6
Software Development Methodologies: From Waning Waterfall to Ascending Agile, plus a Sprint through Scrum
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Beyond the Price Tag: Total Cost of Ownership and the Cost of Tech Failure
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Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, Virtualized, and App-Driven Shifts
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Open Source
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Why Open Source?
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Examples of Open Source Software
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Why Give It Away? The Business of Open Source
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Defining Cloud Computing
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Software in the Cloud: Why Buy When You Can Rent?
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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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Make, Buy, or Rent
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Data and Competitive Advantage: Databases, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning
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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, Data Lakes, and the Technology behind “Big Data”
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The Business Intelligence Toolkit
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning: It’s Now Everywhere!
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Ethical Information Systems: Understanding Risks and Building More Responsible Technology
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Data Asset in Action: Technology and the Rise of Walmart
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A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications
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16.1
Introduction
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16.2
Internet 101: Understanding How the Internet Works
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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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Taking Action
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Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and an Alphabet of Opportunity
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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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