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Below are select recent white papers.

Ecosystem Strategy: Keystones and Dominators

Due to an increasingly distributed industry structure, the focus of competition is shifting away from the management of internal resources, to the management and influence of assets that are outside the direct ownership and control of the firm. In this paper, we introduce a framework for studying and understanding the management of innovation and operations in business ecosystems
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Enterprise IT Capabilities and Business Performance

Better information technology makes a quantifiable, positive difference in business performance. The core finding of this multi-country research study from Keystone Strategy, Inc., sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and conducted under the direction of Professor Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School.
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IT Drives Growth

Keystone Strategy research shows a high correlation between IT capability and profitable business growth. Firms that build high capability IT systems grow faster than firms that do not, and do so while increasing both revenue and profit.
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