24
Emmie Martin, “One-Eighth of Harvard Undergraduates Are Enrolled in the Same Computer Course, and It Says a Lot about the Future,” BusinessInsider.com, September 11, 2014, www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-course-at-harvard-2014-9.
25
Nash, “State of the CIO 2014.”
26
Nicholas Carr, “IT Doesn't Matter,”
27
Alex Konrad, “The World's Top 10 Venture Investors For 2014,” Forbes.com, March 26, 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/03/26/midas-top-ten-list-for-2014/.
28
Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating The World,”
29
Liz Gannes, “The Best of Mary Meeker's 2013 Internet Trends Slides,” AllThingsD.com, May 29, 2013, allthingsd.com/20130529/the-best-of-mary-meekers-2013-internet-trends-slides/.
30
Arthur, “Five Years From Now.”
31
Michael Hickins, “Debunking the Ascendancy of the CMO IT Honcho,”
32
Nash, “State of the CIO 2014.”
33
Joe Weinman, “4 Ways to Win at Business by Playing Games All Day Long,” Forbes.com, October 15, 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/joeweinman/2013/10/15/4-ways-to-win-at-business-by-playing-games-all-day-long/.
34
Jennifer Bogo and Emily Gertz, “Newlight Technologies AirCarbon: Plastic from Thin Air,” PopSci.com, bestofwhatsnew.popsci.com/newlight-technologies-aircarbon.
35
Michael Porter, “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,”
36
Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema, “Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines,”
37
Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema,
38
C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,”
39
Ucilia Wang, “Tesla's Elon Musk: On Creating a ‘Cool’ Battery System for Home Energy Storage,” Forbes.com, May 7, 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2014/05/07/teslas-elon-musk-on-creating-a-cool-battery-system-with-a-beautiful-cover-for-home-energy-storage/.
40
Treacy and Wiersema,
41
Ibid., 84.
42
Ibid., 85.
43
Ibid., 84.
44
“Return to Spender,” Snopes.com, April 25, 2011, www.snopes.com/business/consumer/nordstrom.asp.
45
Treacy and Wiersema,
46
Katie Little, “McDonald's CEO Don Thompson Steps Aside, Stock Jumps,” CNBC.com, January 28, 2015, www.cnbc.com/id/102376552.
47
www.shakeshack.com/ (accessed May 14, 2015).
48
John Hagel and Marc Singer, “Unbundling the Corporation,”
49
Bartow Elmore, “How Coca-Cola Built a Sugary Empire, by Outsourcing as Much as Possible,” Fortune.com, November 25, 2014, fortune.com/2014/11/25/coca-cola-capitalism/.
50
AppleInsider Staff, “Selling 50 % of iPhones through Apple's Retail Stores Viewed as an Unrealistic, Lofty Goal,” AppleInsider.com, July 17, 2013, appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/17/selling-50-of-iphones-through-apples-retail-stores-viewed-as-an-unrealistic-lofty-goal.
51
Dan Primack, “Uber Reportedly Valued at $40 Billion by Investors,” Fortune.com, November 25, 2014, fortune.com/2014/11/25/uber-reportedly-valued-at-40-billion-by-investors/.
52
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur,
53
Ibid, 57.
54
Michael Porter,