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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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2.3
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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5.5
E-waste: The Dark Side of Moore’s Law
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Amazon.com: 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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6.3
Kindle and the Rise of Digital
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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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7.4
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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Wikis
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Social Networks
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Twitter and the Rise of Microblogging
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Other Key Web 2.0 Terms and Concepts
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8.7
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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Facebook: Building a Business from the Social Graph
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9.1
Introduction
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9.2
The Facebook Platform: Disrupting Competition and Building Durable Competitive Advantage
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9.3
Moving Fast and Breaking Things: What All Managers Can Learn from Facebook’s Mistakes
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Advertising and Social Networks: A Work in Progress
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9.5
Is Facebook Worth It?
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Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers
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10.1
Introduction
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10.2
Operating Systems
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10.3
Application Software
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10.4
Distributed Computing
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10.5
Writing Software
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10.6
Understanding Technology beyond the Price Tag: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the Cost of Tech Failure
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Software in Flux: Partly Cloudy and Sometimes Free
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11.1
Introduction
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11.2
Open Source
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11.3
Why Open Source?
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11.4
Examples of Open Source Software
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Why Give It Away? The Business of Open Source
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Cloud Computing: Hype or Hope?
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The Software Cloud: Why Buy When You Can Rent?
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11.8
SaaS: Not without Risks
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The Hardware Cloud: Utility Computing and Its Cousins
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11.10
Clouds and Tech Industry Impact
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Virtualization: Software That Makes One Computer Act Like Many
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11.12
Make, Buy, or Rent
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The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Competitive Advantage
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12.1
Introduction
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12.2
Data, Information, and Knowledge
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12.3
Where Does Data Come From?
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12.4
Data Rich, Information Poor
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12.5
Data Warehouses, Data Marts, and Technology behind “Big Data”
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12.6
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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13.1
Introduction
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13.2
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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14.1
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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 Beyond
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15.1
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15.2
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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15.10
The Battle Unfolds
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