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"Uber and Lyft took over the streets in San Francisco. Few yellow taxi's left to serve tourists. The locals have shifted their behavior and adapted to their platform. Amazon shifted its business model from selling books to 24/7 logistic services to your home. Netflix shifted from renting and shipping dvd's to tailor made on demand series like Narcos. Business Models Evolve. Business Models evolve as customer behavior and technology is changing. Once...

Business forecasting is of extreme importance to managers at practically all levels- from making long-term strategic decisions or developing departmental budgets to creating almost any business plan. This book will provide a working knowledge of the fundamentals of business forecasting that can be applied in the real world regardless of your firm's size.--[book cover].

"We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new order, success flows primarily from understanding networks and networks have their own rules. In New Rules, Kevin Kelly presents ten fundamental principles that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world." "For example, "Plenitude, Not Scarcity." Industrial age wisdom says value comes from scarcity. But in a network...

The authors foresee that the 1990s will be even more difficult than the 1987 crash with the bankruptcy of the welfare state; the breakup of many large institutions, including a number of nation-states; deeper declines of real estate prices; debt implosion; and the insolvency of many consumers and corporations.

"What's Next? takes fresh insights and ideas that emerged from a series of dynamic interviews and weaves them together in an innovative format that gives a multiplicity of views organized around major themes. You'll find an expansive conversation that includes Mary Catherine Bateson on the difficulties of cultural change, Paul Hawken on the anti-globalization movement, Francis Fukuyama on the politics of biotechnology, and Jaron Lanier on the social...

From selecting the lead actress in a Broadway musical to predicting a crucial delay of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner months before the CEO knew about it, to accurately forecasting US president ital elections--prediction markets have realized some amazing successes by aggregating the wisdom of crowds. Until now, the potential for this unique approach has remained merely an interesting curiosity. But a handful of innovative organizations--GE, Google, Motorola,...