Have no doubt, China has some world-class networked companies that are "in the flow" already, such as Li & Fung, a $14 billion apparel company with a network of 10,000 specialized business partners, and Dachangjiang, the motorcycle maker.
On top of the most obvious of these — the growth of networked companies and the need to better control how software is distributed among them — there is how the product itself was conceived.
The idea: that to compete in the global, networked age, companies need to outmaneuver more competitors than ever, and they need to do it, crucially, by scaling lightning fast.
But growth, not profit, is what matters at the early stage in the life of a networked Internet company.
Networked Insights, a company that measures brand engagement on social networks, compared the top ten TV shows for the week of September 22 to 28, as measured by Nielsens, to the most talked about TV shows on social networks, as measured by which ones were most commented on, linked to, shared, or rated.
In April, for example, a Long Island technology company, Networked Now, turned two half-mile stretches in downtown Glen Cove into wireless zones.
For example, the consumer research company Networked Insights can sample online posts from hundreds of niche audiences to place them into small sub-groups for marketers to hone their message to.
According to Networked Insights, a company that uses a technology it calls Social Sense to analyze social media, "Mad Men" finished first on a list of the "top 10 engaged TV shows" from Oct. 15 through Thursday, exceeding the rank of series like "30 Rock" and "House".
In the networked world of technology companies, firms are no longer stand-alone silos that do a single thing.
As LinkedIn struggles to remain relevant in an ever more socially networked world, the Internet company has found a constituency that might need its help.
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