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At present there is far more to be gained by pushing the boundaries of what can be done by the bottom than by focusing on what can be done at the top.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Expertise now resides in fanatical customers. The world's best experts on your product or service, don't work for your company. They are your customers, or a hobby tribe.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Outsiders act as employees, employees act as outsiders. New relationships blur the roles of employees and customers to the point of unity. They reveal the customer and the company as one.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
A network is a possibility factory.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The net demands wiser customers.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
To prosper, feed the web first.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)