Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You

by Geoffrey G. Parker

Collectively, these new data tools create a formidable barrier to entry—a platform version of Porter’s competitive moat. If competitors don’t have the data, they can’t create the value—which means they can’t create the interactions, which further limits their access to the data.