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Many internet superstars owe much of their success to the active and passive contributions made by countless people from outside their organizations. Think, most obviously, of Facebook profiles, eBay goods, YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries, and, less obviously, of the aggregated buying behavior underlying Amazon recommendations and the donated use of personal-computer resources underpinning Skype’s internet-based phone network.
Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 120 million active users worldwide.
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in thirty other countries. eBay Inc. also owns PayPal, Skype,StubHub, Kijiji,and other businesses.The online auction website was founded in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb,part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.In 1997, the company received approximately $5 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.
YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees.In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for 1.65 billion dollars, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by members of the public, although media organizations including CBS and the BBC offer some of their material via the site.YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Amazon.com, Inc.is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. It is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994, and launched it online in 1995. Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs, MP3 format, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China and Japan. It also provides global shipping to certain countries for some of its products (Wikipedia).
Cook, the founder of Intuit (maker of financial software products such as Quicken and TurboTax), challenges traditional companies to tap this emerging source of value by actively creating what he calls user contribution systems.
The user can be a customer, employee, sales prospect—or someone with no previous connection to the company at all. The contribution can be actively offered work, expertise, or information, as well as passive or even unknowing contributions, such as behavioral data that are gathered automatically as a by-product of a transaction or an activity. The system is the method, usually internet based, by which contributions are aggregated and made useful to others. Such a system creates value for a business as a consequence of the value it delivers to customers.
In this article, Cook describes the personal journey that led him to see the tremendous value in user contributions. He creates a taxonomy of the systems that can capture user contributions and shows the variety of ways in which companies from Honda to Procter & Gamble to Hyatt Hotels are leveraging them. And, drawing on his successes and failures in trying to put them to work at Intuit, he offers advice on how business leaders can catalyze action to create user contribution systems in their own organizations.
Source : Harvard Business Review
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Resource based-view analysis
Analysis perspective is a resource-based method to analyze and identify the strategic benefits of the company based on the observation that different combinations of assets, skills, abilities, both tangible and intangible. Thus, the analysis perspective based resource consists of tangible assets, intangible assets, ability and organization. The concept of perspective-based resources raised by the R. M. Grant in the book Contemporary Strategy Analysis, published 2001.
Tangible assets are assets that are easily recognizable, often found on the company's balance sheet report. These assets include production facilities, raw materials, financial resources, computer and office buildings. Tangible assets are used to give the company a value to customers. Toyota Toyota with Prduction System or Just In Time Production. Coca-Cola with a formula Coke. Motorola and General Electric with Six Sigma methods of production.
No tangible assets are assets that can not be touched or seen, but often is very important to create competitive advantages, such as the name brand, the company's reputation, moral organization, technical knowledge, trademarks and patents, and the experience accumulated in the organisasi.General Elecric with a reputation as a company admired the world ranking the first 2007, version of Fortune magazine. IBM with the management team. Wal-Mart with the project. Walt Disney with the spirit of human resources.
The ability of the organization is a trade organization that is used to transform inputs into outputs. Dell Computer has the ability in the areas of customer service. P & G with the management training program. Wal-Mart through the purchase and logistics to it. 3M has the capability in the process of innovation. Apple prominent in the process of product development. Coke famous coordination with global distribution.
Tangible assets are assets that are easily recognizable, often found on the company's balance sheet report. These assets include production facilities, raw materials, financial resources, computer and office buildings. Tangible assets are used to give the company a value to customers. Toyota Toyota with Prduction System or Just In Time Production. Coca-Cola with a formula Coke. Motorola and General Electric with Six Sigma methods of production.
No tangible assets are assets that can not be touched or seen, but often is very important to create competitive advantages, such as the name brand, the company's reputation, moral organization, technical knowledge, trademarks and patents, and the experience accumulated in the organisasi.General Elecric with a reputation as a company admired the world ranking the first 2007, version of Fortune magazine. IBM with the management team. Wal-Mart with the project. Walt Disney with the spirit of human resources.
The ability of the organization is a trade organization that is used to transform inputs into outputs. Dell Computer has the ability in the areas of customer service. P & G with the management training program. Wal-Mart through the purchase and logistics to it. 3M has the capability in the process of innovation. Apple prominent in the process of product development. Coke famous coordination with global distribution.
Strategies to create a vision
According to Peter F. Drucker, the foundation of effective leadership is thinking vision and mission of the organization, study, and set a clear and obvious. Leaders set goals, determine priorities, and set and monitor standards.
Meanwhile, according to Tony Buzan in the book The Power of Spiritual Intelegence, vision is defined as the ability to think or plan the future with the wise and imaginative, using a mental picture of the situation that can and may occur in the future. The company’s vision is the desire of companies that are ideal of carefully formulated, which determine the direction or future circumstances. The researchers see the vision as very important for the leadership, the implementation of the strategy and change (Doz & Prahalad, 1987; Hunt, 1991; Kotter, 1990; Robbins & Duncan, 1988; Sashkin, 1988).
Thus, the vision is the starting point of fact the next day a company. Vision, which is a very powerful ideas that can make the leap into the future beginning with the rally all the resources to realize the vision. Vision has the right lure and cause other people to make a commitment, generate energy and enthusiasm, to create meaning for the life of the company, to create standards that can be used to measure the success of the company, can be used outside people (customers) to measure the benefits for the company, a The main bridge between what is done now with companies that want the company in the future, is a major prerequisite for strategic moment and is the basis for formulating the company’s mission. Intel has a vision of encouraging ongoing innovation boundaries so that people can make life more fervent, more fulfilled and easier to manage. Intel’s strong commitment to drive technology to make future has been the transformation of the world with a leap and bound. Intel is a company that always move in the circumstances, coal, creating an industry that never rest. Intel responses partner to develop innovative products and services, rally to support the industry can provide solutions with better resolution with collectively provide greater benefits and more quickly.
Bill Gates at the beginning of the founding of Microsoft, has the vision of “A computer on every desk in every home, running the Microsoft device.” But after Bill Gates created the MS-DOS, it makes the Windows operating system as well as home use window that caused Bill Gates to become Entrepreneurs richest in the world. It is not true is true that Bill Gates is merely a role in putting the PC in the office and at home in the world, but Bill Gates has the vision to see what is possible and the desire to change the vision into reality.
Thomas Watson Sr.. change the company name Computing Tabulating Recording Company became International Business Machine (IBM), even when not operate internationally, but Thomas Watson has a vision that the company later became the company that operates internationally. When Watson called the International Business Machine (IBM) many people when it laughed Watson. Even if there is a name that Watson is too grown-blown company. But now IBM is a modern company and the its manager become role models by setting the white shirt, plain tie, the spirit of selling out. In 2003 this company was selected as the IBM computer that the world’s most spectacular version of Fortune magazine.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, which initially only a bookstore .. Why does he call the company with Amazon. Because “the Amazon river is the largest river in the world” said Jeff Bezos. How the river Nile. River Nile is the longest river in the world, if compared with the volume of the water Amazon River is the only child the Amazon river. Amazon river contains 20% water world, then Jeff Bezos has on the company soon became the company which controlled 20% of the world market. Amazon.com to open the site E-Commernya in July 1995, the beginning of the book store and then spread to the compact disk (CD) and then to auction, and now thousands of different products and different traders. In 1996, to sell 15.7 million dollars and jumped into 600 million dollars in 1998. Amazon.com reported on November 1, through December 23, 2002, consumers who do order in the world 56 million items to become the best online stores 2002 version of Yahoo magazine.
John F. Welch, Jr. (former CEO) of General Electric stated: “We use the three principles set the atmosphere for the operation and behavior at General Electric: no border in all our behavior, speed in everything we do and peregangan in each of the targets that we set” . Behavior without border rally twelve global business major, each number one or number two in the market, to a laboratory in the area of the produkutamanya is a new idea, along with the general commitment to disseminate the company’s history. Speed is something that does not usually found in the company of General Electric, General Electric, but in the form found in the speed of product development, design re-recycling (from order to delivery), set back the ability to reduce investment and factory equipment. Peregangan means using dreams to set targets that exceed the set target.
Meanwhile, according to Tony Buzan in the book The Power of Spiritual Intelegence, vision is defined as the ability to think or plan the future with the wise and imaginative, using a mental picture of the situation that can and may occur in the future. The company’s vision is the desire of companies that are ideal of carefully formulated, which determine the direction or future circumstances. The researchers see the vision as very important for the leadership, the implementation of the strategy and change (Doz & Prahalad, 1987; Hunt, 1991; Kotter, 1990; Robbins & Duncan, 1988; Sashkin, 1988).
Thus, the vision is the starting point of fact the next day a company. Vision, which is a very powerful ideas that can make the leap into the future beginning with the rally all the resources to realize the vision. Vision has the right lure and cause other people to make a commitment, generate energy and enthusiasm, to create meaning for the life of the company, to create standards that can be used to measure the success of the company, can be used outside people (customers) to measure the benefits for the company, a The main bridge between what is done now with companies that want the company in the future, is a major prerequisite for strategic moment and is the basis for formulating the company’s mission. Intel has a vision of encouraging ongoing innovation boundaries so that people can make life more fervent, more fulfilled and easier to manage. Intel’s strong commitment to drive technology to make future has been the transformation of the world with a leap and bound. Intel is a company that always move in the circumstances, coal, creating an industry that never rest. Intel responses partner to develop innovative products and services, rally to support the industry can provide solutions with better resolution with collectively provide greater benefits and more quickly.
Bill Gates at the beginning of the founding of Microsoft, has the vision of “A computer on every desk in every home, running the Microsoft device.” But after Bill Gates created the MS-DOS, it makes the Windows operating system as well as home use window that caused Bill Gates to become Entrepreneurs richest in the world. It is not true is true that Bill Gates is merely a role in putting the PC in the office and at home in the world, but Bill Gates has the vision to see what is possible and the desire to change the vision into reality.
Thomas Watson Sr.. change the company name Computing Tabulating Recording Company became International Business Machine (IBM), even when not operate internationally, but Thomas Watson has a vision that the company later became the company that operates internationally. When Watson called the International Business Machine (IBM) many people when it laughed Watson. Even if there is a name that Watson is too grown-blown company. But now IBM is a modern company and the its manager become role models by setting the white shirt, plain tie, the spirit of selling out. In 2003 this company was selected as the IBM computer that the world’s most spectacular version of Fortune magazine.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, which initially only a bookstore .. Why does he call the company with Amazon. Because “the Amazon river is the largest river in the world” said Jeff Bezos. How the river Nile. River Nile is the longest river in the world, if compared with the volume of the water Amazon River is the only child the Amazon river. Amazon river contains 20% water world, then Jeff Bezos has on the company soon became the company which controlled 20% of the world market. Amazon.com to open the site E-Commernya in July 1995, the beginning of the book store and then spread to the compact disk (CD) and then to auction, and now thousands of different products and different traders. In 1996, to sell 15.7 million dollars and jumped into 600 million dollars in 1998. Amazon.com reported on November 1, through December 23, 2002, consumers who do order in the world 56 million items to become the best online stores 2002 version of Yahoo magazine.
John F. Welch, Jr. (former CEO) of General Electric stated: “We use the three principles set the atmosphere for the operation and behavior at General Electric: no border in all our behavior, speed in everything we do and peregangan in each of the targets that we set” . Behavior without border rally twelve global business major, each number one or number two in the market, to a laboratory in the area of the produkutamanya is a new idea, along with the general commitment to disseminate the company’s history. Speed is something that does not usually found in the company of General Electric, General Electric, but in the form found in the speed of product development, design re-recycling (from order to delivery), set back the ability to reduce investment and factory equipment. Peregangan means using dreams to set targets that exceed the set target.
Apple Computer, Inc.
The company ranked first admired the world in 2008 version of Fortune magazine, is Apple Computer, Inc.. The company was registered legally in the state of California on 3 January 1977. This company to design, produce and market personal computers and software that berhungan with the computer, services, peripherals and network solutions. Apple is also designing, developing and marketing of portable digital music player with accessories and services include online distribution of music, audio books, music videos, short films and television performances. Products and services include the company's line of Macintosh desktop and notebook computers, the iPod digital music player, the Xserve G5 server and Xserve RAID storage products, software applications for consumer and professional, operating system Mac OS X, iTunes Music Store, to support line Macintosh and iPod products and various services and support provided. On 24 September, 2006, Apple earn around 19.3 billion dollars the United States and has approximately 14,800 employees full-time employees and 2,020 contract.
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