2002 Management Software Developers 
Matthew Griffin
MAY 26, 2015
To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Consequently Apple was determined to outsource both of these areas of operation from the outset.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2016
Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Failure to engage developers. Insight Center.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 17, 2015
But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. Many managers assume that they don’t need to tend to freelancers as much as they do regular employees—and there’s some truth to that, says Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and Drive.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. They document that physical investment (machines, factories, equipment) has declined relative to intangible investment (software, data, employee training, management).
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles.
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