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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. ” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” Cloud computing?

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not.