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Vanishing Point: The Search for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Overview This article describes that innovation, patent protection and the move to services will continue to be important. But your future advantage will ride on your ability to make your offerings more valued through the beneficial use of personal and private corporate data. It’s ironic. After accounting for all the technological advances of the past and future, your sustainable competitive advantage will rely on two very human characteristics: insight and trust.

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Publisher	Accenture	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2003	Downloads	51
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Business Strategies, Strategic Planning

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