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How Multi-business Firms Realize Physical and Digital Synergies
We explore the mechanisms underpinning the realization of synergies within multi-business firms. Using unique data from a large GCC...
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Feb 24
A Vehicle Is More Than Its Engine: Why Complements Are the Key to Reaping Value From (Generative) AI
Two years after Generative AI’s inflection moment, enthusiasm remains strong, yet evidence of impact is elusive. The truth is that GenAI...
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Nov 27, 2024
How to Reap Value from (Generative) AI: Bypass the Hype, Focus on the Complements.
We believe there is still a great deal of hype and misunderstanding over what AI in general, and GenAI specifically, can and cannot do....
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Nov 21, 2024
How Disruptive Will Generative AI Be? A Micro-Level Analysis of Evidence and Expectations.
This study examines executives’ assessment of Generative AI’s impact on competitive advantage and their expectations of its disruptive...
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Sep 30, 2024
How Will AI Impact your Business? From Productivity to Strategic Transformation
AI, especially Generative AI (GenAI), has experienced astonishing uptake due to its usercentric design, surpassing traditional focus on...
Michael G. Jacobides
Jan 17, 2024
Revisiting Disruption: Lessons from Automobile Transformation and Mobility Innovation
Will the ongoing transition from Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles to Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) disrupt the incumbent automaker...
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Jul 29, 2023
Externalities and Complementarities in Platforms and Ecosystems
Platforms and ecosystems provide structures for constellations of economic actors to engage and interact as they seek to create and...
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Jul 1, 2023
Gamification: How to Climb the Ladders and Avoid the Snakes
Gamification, originally seen as a means of motivating employees, is now being used in more and more industries to engage users, attract...
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Jan 4, 2023
A Playbook for Winning the Ecosystem Game
Interconnected value chains, digital platforms, and multi-product ecosystems are all becoming increasingly common, raising the question...
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Dec 20, 2022
Enhancing Brands and Shaping Customer Experiences: From partnerships to experience ecosystems
As consumer goods businesses engage in an accelerating innovation arms race, competing for increasingly scarce consumer attention we...
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May 8, 2022
How to Compete When Industries Digitize and Collide: An Ecosystem Development Framework
Industry boundaries are dissolving through the dramatic growth of digitalization, and platforms connecting different actors are...
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Jul 18, 2021
Digital Platforms and Ecosystems in Healthcare: Promises and Pitfalls
COVID-19 has shown how digitization can transform business and society. However, it has also exposed serious vulnerabilities in...
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May 11, 2021
What Drives and Defines Digital Platform Power?
The seemingly inexorable growth of the leading platform businesses coupled with the growing wave of complaints about platform businesses’...
Michael G. Jacobides
Apr 19, 2021
Regulating Big Tech in Europe
Why, so what, and how understanding their business models and ecosystems can make a difference
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Dec 20, 2020
First Steps, Far to Go
The Promises and Pitfalls of Platforms and Digital Ecosystems in Healthcare
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Dec 4, 2020
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