<p>Table of Contents </p><p>Chapter 1 — Introduction: You get control when you recognize the patterns</p>Introduction to Chapter 1 <p></p>Section 1.1 — The Structure of This Book <p></p>Section 1.2 — Patterns, Pattern Recognition, and Thinking Strategically About Thinking Strategically<p></p><p>Section 1.3 — Developing the Theory of Newly Vulnerable Markets</p><p>Section 1.4 — The Complete Theory of Newly Vulnerable Markets</p>Summary of Chapter 1 <p></p><p>Chapter 2 — Information Changes Everything: It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Know Before Everyone Else!</p>Introduction to Chapter 2 <p></p><p>Section 2.1 — Information Asymmetry and Market Collapse </p><p>Section 2.2 — Dealing with Information Asymmetry Through Signaling</p>Section 2.3 — Dealing with Information Asymmetry Through Screening: The Theory, and an Explanation for Capital One’s Success<p></p><p>Section 2.4 — Dealing with Information Asymmetry Through Data Mining</p><p>Section 2.5 — Versioning as a Form of Screening</p><p>Section 2.6 — Working with Signaling, Screening, and Data Mining: Specific Examples Where We Need to Address Information Asymmetry</p>Summary of Chapter 2 <p></p><p>Chapter 3 — The Power of Framing: If You Can’t Answer the Question, Turn it into a Question You Can Answer</p>Introduction to Chapter 3 <p></p><p>Section 3.1 — Introduction to Reframing for Easier Solution</p><p>Section 3.2 — Learn the Useful Forms of Reframing</p><p>Section 3.3 — Transforming a Problem for an Easy Solution: </p><p>Section 3.4 — Transforming a Problem for Easy Solution</p><p>Section 3.5 — Reframing the Problem so it Looks Like Something You Have Already Analyzed</p><p>Section 3.6 — Pushing the Problem to its Limit </p>Section 3.7 — Using a New Sequence of Questions<p></p>Summary of Chapter 3 <p></p><p>Chapter 4 — Resonance Marketing in the Age of the Truly Informed Consumer: Creating Profits through Differentiation and Delight</p>Introduction to Chapter 4 <p></p><p>Section 4.1 — Resonance Marketing: The Changing Marketplace for Craft Beer</p><p>Section 4.2 — Resonance Marketing: Information Changes Consumer Behavior and Corporate Strategy</p><p>Section 4.3 — Hyperdifferentiation: With Modern Technology Firms Can Make Anything</p>Section 4.4 — Hyperdifferentiation Plus Information Yields Retailer Profits and Customer Delight<p></p><p>Section 4.5 — Characteristics of a Successful Reviewing Site</p><p>Section 4.6 — Hyperdifferentiation Plus Information Guides Manufacturers to Resonance Marketing and Customer Delight</p>Section 4.7 — Unrewarded Excellence and the Need to be Better than Good Enough<p></p><p>Section 4.8 — Not Just Better Enough to be Liked, But Also Different Enough to be Loved!</p><p>Section 4.9 — Information Changes Everything For Producers and Retailers</p><p>Section 4.10 — This is Global. Resonance Marketing is Everywhere.</p><p>Section 4.11 — The Rise of Astroturfing and the Threat of Fake Grass-Roots Support</p>Summary of Chapter 4 <p></p><p>Chapter 5 — Online Brand Ambassadors and Online Brand Assassins: Master The New Role of the Chief Perception Officer</p>Introduction to Chapter 5 <p></p><p>Section 5.1 — Tactical Implications for Companies: The New Role of the Chief Perception Officer</p><p>Section 5.2 — The First Role of the CPO</p><p>Section 5.3 — Tactical Implications for Companies </p><p>Summary of Chapter 5 </p><p>Part II — Patterns for Power, Control, and Harvesting of Profits</p><p>Chapter 6 — Resources, Platforms, and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: How to Win and Keep on Winning</p>Introduction to Chapter 6 <p></p><p>Section 6.1 — Introduction to Sustainable Competitive Advantage</p><p>Section 6.2 — Sustainable Competitive Advantage Based on Acquiring a Unique Set of Resources</p><p>Section 6.3 — Introduction to Platforms and Platform Envelopment</p>Section 6.4 — An Early Example of Platform Envelopment at Rosenbluth Travel<p></p><p>Section 6.5 — Platform Envelopment Strategies in Two-Sided Markets</p>Summary of Chapter 6 <p></p><p>Chapter 7 — Understanding the Power of Third Party Payer Businesses and Online Gateways</p>Introduction to Chapter 7 <p></p><p>Section 7.1 — Introduction to Third Party Payer Systems</p><p>Section 7.2 — Mandatory Participation Third Party Payer Systems: </p><p> Third Party Payer Systems in the Absence of Competition</p><p>Section 7.3 — Learning the Lessons of Power</p><p>Section 7.4 — When Mandatory Participation Third Party Payer </p> Systems Combine with Online Gateway Systems<p></p><p>Section 7.5 — Power is not Unlimited</p><p>Section 7.6 — The Origins of the Credit Card Industry, Before it Became an MP3PP</p><p>Section 7.7 — Mandatory Participation Third Party Payer Systems </p><p>Outside of Search: Credit Cards’ Transition to a Powerful MP3PP</p>Summary of Chapter 7 <p></p><p>Chapter 8 — The Continuing Power of Third Party Payer Businesses</p>Introduction to Chapter 8 <p></p><p>Section 8.1 — MP3PP Systems in the Internet Age: How Can They Still be Dangerous?</p><p>Section 8.2 — The Recurring Pattern in Third Party Payer Models:</p><p> When the System Really Start to Use Its Power</p><p>Section 8.3 — And now … Coming soon to a Search Engine near You … Platform Envelopment and Vertical Integration</p>Summary of Chapter 8 <p></p><p>Chapter 9 — Power and the Potential for the Abuse of Power in Online Gateway Systems: An Analysis of Google</p>Introduction to Chapter 9 <p></p><p>Section 9.1 — Quality Scores and the Power to Make and Defend Arbitrary Decisions</p><p>Section 9.2 — Vickrey Auctions, Pseudo-Vickrey Auctions, and the Power to Charge Whatever You Want</p><p>Section 9.3 — The Illusion of Choice</p><p>Section 9.4 — Can We Show that Monopoly Power Has Been Abused in Search and Extended Beyond Search? Is There Evidence?</p>Section 9.5 — Should You Care About Reverse Price Wars? Do Higher Prices Charged to Sellers Really Affect Consumers? Some of the Money Goes to You, Right?<p></p><p>Section 9.6 — Why Should Anyone Do Anything About Monopoly Power in Search? Won’t Technological Progress Fix any Problems Better and Faster than Regulation?</p><p>Section 9.7 — Is it Fair to Complain? After All Google has Done for Us?</p><p>Section 9.8 — But What Should Regulation Look Like? </p><p>Section 9.9 — A Final Cautionary Note on Regulation</p>Summary of Chapter 9 <p></p>Appendix 9.A. — Showing that there is Monopoly Power in Search — How Would You Know? <p></p><p>Part III — I got it! Learning to work with these Patterns?</p><p>Chapter 10 — Scenario Analysis and Managing Strategic Ambiguity: How to Remember Future Events, before They Actually Occur!</p>Introduction to Chapter 10 <p></p><p>Section 10.1— Remembering The Future and Using Scenarios for Rapid Recognition and Rapid Response</p><p>Section 10.2 — Learn to Ask the Right Questions, Even If You Can’t Answer Them</p><p>Section 10.3. — When “Good Data Goes Bad”, or What to do When “Convincing Data Actually Lies to Us”!</p><p>Section 10.4. — Learn to Ask the Right Questions, Even If You Can’t Answer Them: Lessons from The Future of Chinese Consumer Behavior</p><p>Section 10.5 — Working with Questions if All You Have is Questions: Remember What They Say About Making Lemonade if Life Gives You Nothing But Lemons</p><p>Section 10.6 — The Future of Consumer Behavior in China</p><p>Section 10.7 — Working with the Scenarios for the Future of Consumer Behavior in China</p><p>Section 10.8 — What’s So Special about Four Scenarios?</p><p>Summary of Chapter 10 </p><p>Chapter 11 — Examining the Wide Range of Business Models Currently in Use in Online Businesses: How to Understand A New Business Using Existing Frameworks</p>Introduction to Chapter 11 <p></p><p>Section 11.1 — Fully Digital Business Models and Partly Digital Business Models</p><p>Section 11.2 — The Full Range of Online Business Models</p><p>Section 11.3 — Selling Real Stuff</p><p>Section 11.4 — Using Ads to Sell Real Stuff</p><p>Section 11.5 — Selling Content Online</p><p>Section 11.6 — The Digital Transformation of Higher Education</p><p>Section 11.7 — Selling Online Services</p><p>Section 11.8 — Creating Exchanges for Business-to-Consumer and Direct Consumer-to-Consumer Interactions</p><p>Section 11.9. — If the Sharing Economy is Transformational, Maybe We Should Say a Bit More about Building Sharing Economy Websites</p><p>Section 11.10 — Control of Search and Charging for Customer Access</p><p>Section 11.11 — Selling Virtual Experiences and Virtual Stuff</p><p>Section 11.12 — Harnessing Social Networks the Right Way</p><p>Section 11.13 — Selling Referrals Based on Snooping or Context</p><p>Section 11.14 — Using Contextual Referrals to Direct Ads to Mobile Users</p><p>Summary of Chapter 11 </p><p>Chapter 12 — Information Changes Everything: Implications for Society</p>Introduction to Chapter 12 <p></p><p>Section 12.1 — Let’s Just Do the Right Thing</p>Section 12.2 — Fake News: Is this really a big deal? Isn’t this just bigger, faster, more personal, and efficient?<p></p><p>Section 12.3 — How Price Discrimination Affects Fairness for All of Us</p><p>Section 12.4 — How Much Should We Value Efficiency? How Much Should We Value Fairness?</p><p>Section 12.5 — Why is Fairness a Social Policy Issue?</p><p>Section 12.6 — Privacy in the Online World</p><p>Section 12.7 — Fairness Considerations in Platforms and the Sharing Economy</p><p>Section 12.8 — Why is it So Hard to Agree on Fairness?</p>Section 12.9 — So Where Should We Draw the Line?<p></p><p>Section 12.10—And, Finally, What Should We Do Now?</p><p>Summary of Chapter 12 </p><p>Chapter 13 — Epilog: What could go really, really, wrong?</p><p> Introduction to Chapter 13<br></p>