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18 Dec 09
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The distinguishing characteristic of networks is that they contain no clear center and no clear outside boundaries. Within a network everything is potentially equidistant from everything else.
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In the network economy a firm’s primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm’s value to maximizing the network’s value.
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The prestandard phase is the most exciting. This period is marked by tremendous innovation, high hopes, and grand ambition.
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03 Oct 07
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- Prestandard
- Fluid
- Embedded
Every network technology follows a natural life cycle, roughly broken into three stages:
A firm’s strategy will depend on what phase a network is in.
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In any phase of innovation—prestandard, fluid, or embedded—standards are valuable because they hasten innovation. Agreements are constraints on uncertainty. The constraints of a standard solidify one pathway out of many, allowing further innovation and evolution to accelerate along that stable route. So central is the need to cultivate certainty that organizations must make the common standard their first allegiance. As standards are established, growth takes off.
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For maximum prosperity, feed the web first.
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Eventually technical standards will become as important as laws.
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