Industry platforms are foundations that bring people and organizations together for a common purpose, which usually includes making money. They function at the level of a market or ecosystem, rather than only within a specific firm. They often start with products such as operating systems and microprocessors, services such as social media and messaging systems, or marketplaces for e-commerce and financial transactions. They can link thousands, millions, or even billions of users and other market actors. But another type of industry platform has recently received attention from consultants such as The Boston Consulting Group as well as investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

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Have you seen the Audi commercial with the autonomous mail delivery drones stalking the employees leaving their office? It's a bit of a stretch, but the commercial is pretty funny and a good example of the technological advances that are on the horizon. To manage a fleet of autonomous mail delivery drones an enormous amount of telemetry, geolocation, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, and flight coordination data would be required. This post describes our perspective that all businesses are data-businesses, even the ones that aren't. I will illustrate examples of available data to businesses, and I'll give a story of a seemingly simple business that is a data business but doesn't realize it.

Have you seen the Audi commercial with the autonomous mail delivery drones stalking the employees leaving their office? It's a bit of a stretch, but the commercial is pretty funny and a good example of the technological advances that are on the horizon. To manage a fleet of autonomous mail delivery drones an enormous amount of telemetry, geolocation, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, and flight coordination data would be required. This post describes our perspective that all businesses are data-businesses, even the ones that aren't. I will illustrate examples of available data to businesses, and I'll give a story of a seemingly simple business that is a data business but doesn't realize it.