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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Startups will build on the lessons and tactics to crack the toughest service industries – including regulated markets that have withstood digital transformation for decades. In doing this, the lives of 125 million Americans who work in the services-providing industries will join the digital transformation of the economy.

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Workplace Cultural Transformation: A Complete Guide

Walk Me

Workplace Cultural Transformation goes Deeper When a company faces deep challenges to its stability, they have many choices about what to do. Workplace Cultural Transformation Prepares for other changes A strong workplace culture is fundamental for any type of organizational change. After that – bingo!

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Managing Complex Change & Navigating The New Normal

Walk Me

Although large-scale change projects are never simple, they are called “Complex” when they include particularly challenging circumstances. . Encourage Employees To Actively Participate In Digital Transformation Processes. When a complex change involves digital transformation, helping your employees adapt is key.

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To Lead a Digital Transformation, CEOs Must Prioritize

Harvard Business Review

While it is important to encourage local ownership of ideas and projects, turning them into game-changers requires clear, sometimes ruthless direction from the center around which projects to scale and in what order. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. An instant messaging system that also allows for collaboration at work.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Digital platforms, such as online communication channels or marketplaces, allow for rapid and inexpensive scaling, among other advantages.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business Review

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.