Sublime

that, contrary to standard belief, the market shares of many technology companies could be predicted with great accuracy, even if the underlying changes in technology changed frequently.

Amber command and control becomes Orange predict and control. To innovate more and faster than others, it becomes a competitive advantage to tap into the intelligence of many brains in the organization.

For external data to become embedded into decisions, products, and services, many managers will have to change their mind-sets and habits.

Each company is trying to figure out how to strategize, how much to invest, what the technology should be. In a case like that, it’s not at equilibrium.

We are moving beyond automating transactions to analyzing the data they generate.

It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.