Digital Capitol
Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
The industrial-age corporation is crumbling. The new form of wealth creation is the business web, and the new basis of wealth is digital capital.
Schwab, eBay, Cisco, MP3, Linux, and dozens of other companies have transformed the rules of competition in their industries, seemingly overnight. They’ve hijacked long-entrenched industry leaders with revolutionary offerings that surprise and delight customers.
These transformers could not and did not act alone: partners enabled them to move with stealth, speed, agility, and force. Such teams of innovators pioneered the business web, or “b-web” — the new platform for competition in the twenty-first century.
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Overview:
B-webs — partner networks of producers, service providers, suppliers, infrastructure companies, and customers linked via digital channels — are destroying the firm as we have known it and generating wealth in entirely new ways.
In Digital Capital, information-age visionaries Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy describe and explain the b-web phenomenon and the forces behind its emergence.
Drawing on three years of multimillion-dollar research into hundreds of b-webs as diverse as the Microsoft Alliance and the automotive industry, the authors illuminate the five distinct types of b-web now in play: Agoras, Aggregations, Value Chains, Alliances, and Distributive Networks.
Punctuating their analysis with a rich set of case studies, they provide the definitive guide to business model innovation in the digital economy.
The book includes:
- The untold real story behind the story on successes like eBay, Cisco, Linux, Schwab, and Priceline
- Positioning and analysis of emergent e-businesses like Webvan, OptiMark, AT&T Solutions, and Enron
- A step-by-step process for b-web strategy design
- Anew approach to maximizing organizational effectiveness in a multi-enterprise environment
- The “ABCDEs” of marketing — heir to the “four P’s” of the industrial age
- Guidelines for deciding whether to hire, buy, or partner a needed capability
- A new set of lenses for viewing the stock market.
The authors warn that participation in b-webs is not optional.
To encounter and satisfy the digital customer, firms must lead or partner in one or more of these new business networks.
While no single path leads to b-web success, businesses will adopt effective b-web strategies-or they will simply fade away. Sustaining advantage in the digital economy demands more than superficial actions like attracting “eyeballs,” launching a hot IPO, following “new rules”, building a cool Web site, or even just focusing on customers.
In Digital Capital we finally have a book that gets beyond whiz-bang cliches to today’s central issues of competitive strategy.
