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Coworking Industry Competition Heating Up

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The coworking industry is getting more competitive.    Recent examples include stories about coworking spaces  offering of a year's free rent to prospective tenants , reports of coworking spaces spying on competitors and coworking spaces closing down due to growing competition. It's not just WeWork.

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The Ideas Industry

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The Ideas Industry  is an interesting look at how the marketplace for ideas is shifting due to the emergence of for-profit think tanks and ideas entrepreneurs.   Examples of for-profit think tanks include the McKinsey Global Institute  and the JP Morgan Chase Institute.

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Expert Network Industry Big and Getting Bigger

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GLG, for example, has 1500 employees across 22 offices and has revenues in excess of $500 million. Guidepoint, for example, describes what they do as:  Guidepoint connects clients with vetted subject matter experts—Advisors—from our global professional network. million people working as experts for these firms.

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After a Decade of Strong Growth, Craft Brewing Industry Shows Signs of Slowing

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of the beer industry's 2016 volume.  beer industry's revenue.  So while the craft beer industry is still growing, the growth is starting to slow. Our interest in the craft brewing industry is due to the fact that it's such a good example of a barbell industrial structure. 

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Healthcare Industry Embracing the Gig Economy

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Accenture goes on to say that the digital transformation of labor and the growing use of talent marketplaces are "the railroad tracks of the digital era"   There are many examples of the gig economy expanding in healthcare.

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The Staffing Industry Analyst's Human Cloud Framework and Taxonomy

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Last week the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) released The Human Cloud, the Gig Economy & the Transformation of Work. Upwork and Fiverr are examples. It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title.

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More Industries Moving to the On-Demand Economy

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  Uber, Lyft and ridesharing services are often cited as examples. But Amazon is in many ways a better example. There are many more, but we figure these are enough examples to get the point across.  This means few, if any, industries won't become part of the on-demand economy.

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