# Challenging Business Assumptions

- ## Advances in manufacturing technology make many products commodities (including computers!)

- ## Consumers and business to business companies can’t “lock in” customers based on complex processes

- ## The volatility of business has increased

- ## SPEED is king!

- ## Many companies are re-thinking themselves as service companies

  - Is the value in the product or the service around the product?

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