[P2P-F] Fwd: BCG - Expertise and Impact - BCG Fellows - Philip Evans

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Subject: BCG - Expertise and Impact - BCG Fellows - Philip Evans
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A stack is a modular, layered, industrial architecture topped by a peering
community. It pictures an industry as parsed horizontally among dissimilar
“actors” (only some of which are corporations) and delivering value
bidirectionally, with lower layers providing platforms on which
participants in higher layers engage in peer transactions.

The skeleton of a stack is a set of rules, often contractual or embedded in
the technology, by which markets, hierarchies, and self-organizing “clans”
of actors coexist and coparticipate symbiotically. The stack “de-averages”
motivation, agency, scale, modes of innovating, and modes of risk-taking.
Stacks are newly enabled by the rise of scalable communities and by falling
transaction costs. They are given urgency by the intensifying agency
problems and market failures that characterize decades-old compromises at
the heart of many industries. In many cases, they have advantages over
traditional architectures, especially with respect to innovation,
adaptability, and the efficient exploitation of scale.

http://www.bcg.com/expertise_impact/BCG_fellows/strategy/philip_evans.aspx

BCG FELLOW Philip Evans: Stacks

[image: evans_philip_thumb_lg]Philip Evans is a senior partner and managing
director in BCG’s Boston office. He founded BCG’s media sector and has
consulted for corporations worldwide in the financial services, consumer
goods, media, and high-technology industries. He has also advised
governments on military strategy, homeland security, and national economic
policy.

Philip's long-term interest is the relation between information technology
and business strategy. He is a coauthor of, among other publications, four
Harvard Business Review articles, one of which, *“Strategy and the New
Economics of Information
<http://hbr.org/1997/09/strategy-and-the-new-economics-of-information/ar/1>,*”
won HBR’s McKinsey Award. *Blown to Bits
<http://www.bcg.com/expertise_impact/publications/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-14116&mid=tcm:12-53307>*
(coauthored with Tom Wurster) was the best-selling book worldwide on
technology and strategy in 2000 and has been translated into 13 languages.
He is a frequent speaker on technology and strategy at industry, corporate,
and academic conferences and has given keynote addresses at events convened
by Bill Gates, Michael Milken, and the World Economic Forum.

Philip's fellowship research concentrates on the emergence of a new form of
corporate and industrial organization, the stack. A stack is a modular,
layered, industrial architecture topped by a peering community. It pictures
an industry as parsed horizontally among dissimilar “actors” (only some of
which are corporations) and delivering value bidirectionally, with lower
layers providing platforms on which participants in higher layers engage in
peer transactions.

The skeleton of a stack is a set of rules, often contractual or embedded in
the technology, by which markets, hierarchies, and self-organizing “clans”
of actors coexist and coparticipate symbiotically. The stack “de-averages”
motivation, agency, scale, modes of innovating, and modes of risk-taking.
Stacks are newly enabled by the rise of scalable communities and by falling
transaction costs. They are given urgency by the intensifying agency
problems and market failures that characterize decades-old compromises at
the heart of many industries. In many cases, they have advantages over
traditional architectures, especially with respect to innovation,
adaptability, and the efficient exploitation of scale.

The major output of Philip's fellowship will be a book titled Stacks, to be
published by the Harvard Business Press.

Philip graduated with double first-class honors in economics from Cambridge
University, winning two University prizes. He was a Harkness Fellow in the
economics department at Harvard and also obtained an MBA with honors from
the Harvard Business School.

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