The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation<sup>1</sup>

Kushida, Kenji E.; Zysman, John

doi:10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00374.x

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“…In the PC industry, the OS and application layer have famously been the locus for value capture (e.g., Microsoft), though with the advent of the Internet the recent growth opportunities have been higher up in the stack, particularly Google's search function and other online applications. As more of these services move to "the cloud," and therefore become agnostic to the underlying OS (see Kushida and Zysman 2009), the one critical lever used by Microsoft to control and derive massive profits from the personal computer ecosystem will be diminished. In effect, there is a new platform in gestation, which will subsume other ecosystems and reorder value capture.…”

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Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

2011

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With the launch of the original iPhone, Apple redefined the "smartphone" product category and accelerated the convergence of traditional mobile telephony, Internet services, and personal computing into a new industry. As these sectors merge into a single device, formerly separate industry architectures and their constituent firms are being forced into direct competition. We test theories of industry architecture and technological platforms regarding their ability to explain the strategies of key entrants in navigating the transition. We analyze in detail the actions and strategies of four major competitors, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and, more briefly, Research in Motion and HP/Palm, from the framework of technological platform theory. Our analysis suggests that currently some competitors are following traditional platform strategies, but that Google and Apple appear to have adopted strategies at odds with platform literature. We examine how the dynamics of this convergence may lead to a reconsideration of certain tenets of platform theory.

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Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

2011

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“…See Borrus et al (1993). 8 See, for example, Kushida and Zysman (2009). stance was a critical enabler for a new class of Internet service providers, opening opportunities for others to use these services as a platform to innovate and experiment (Bar et al 2000). This policy trajectory was critical to the emergence of today's Cloud service providers, who build upon the operational heritage of those early Internet service providers.…”

Section: Network Providers: Connecting the User To The Cloudmentioning

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Diffusing the Cloud: Cloud Computing and Implications for Public Policy

2011

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Cloud Computing is rapidly emerging as the new information technology platform. It is, however, much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. Cloud Computing is transforming how consumers, companies, and governments store information, how they process that information, and how they utilize computing power. It can be an engine of innovation, a platform for entrepreneurship, and driver of corporate efficiency. While an increasingly commonly term, confusion remains over what exactly constitutes Cloud Computing, how the markets are unfolding, and what forces will drive their evolution and diffusion. This paper provides an overview and conceptual tools for business leaders, policymakers, and non-specialist scholars to identify, distill, and easily understand the core aspects of how Cloud Computing service markets are developing, and how an array of policy issues will influence how this new computing platform unfolds across the world.

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“…Instead, high speed domestic broadband may accelerate the diffusion of "killer" applications from abroad, such as YouTube or Twitter. In attempting to foster domestic development with high-speed networks, policymakers are discovering that it is difficult to facilitate the use of high speed broadband in areas such as healthcare and education, since a variety of laws are involved-more difficult that fostering the network deployment in the first place (Kushida and Zysman 2009). …”

Section: Mobile Internet Content Ecosystem: Trapped By Domestic Platfmentioning

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Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan’s Domestic “Galapagos” Telecommunications Sector

Kushida

2011

J Ind Compet Trade

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While globally successful Japanese industries were able to use their domestic market as a springboard into international markets, Japan's telecommunications sector became decoupled from global markets, trapping Japanese ICT firms in the domestic market. This persistent pattern of leading without followers was not simply the result of misguided technological choices, ill-informed corporate strategies, or insular government standard-setting processes. Rather, the dynamics of competition, shaped and reshaped by political dynamics and regulatory structures, decoupled it from global markets. These dynamics created a "Galapagos effect", in which winning in an isolated domestic market led to losing in global markets. Major regulatory shifts transformed the dynamics of competition since the late 1990s, decreasing the isolation of Japan's telecommunications sector, but some factors pulling it along a proprietary trajectory persist. This paper highlights the dilemma of how to develop beyond a follower status, but avoid becoming a leader without followers.

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The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation¹

Cited by 22 publications

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Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

Diffusing the Cloud: Cloud Computing and Implications for Public Policy

Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan’s Domestic “Galapagos” Telecommunications Sector

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The Services Transformation and Network Policy: The New Logic of Value Creation1

Cited by 22 publications

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Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

Structuring the Smartphone Industry: Is the Mobile Internet OS Platform the Key?

Diffusing the Cloud: Cloud Computing and Implications for Public Policy

Leading without Followers: How Politics and Market Dynamics Trapped Innovations in Japan’s Domestic “Galapagos” Telecommunications Sector

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