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What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption is a groundbreaking original book that includes dozens of stories of how entrepreneurs and businesses are innovating in the space of Collaborative Consumption.
"A remarkably hopeful and accessible book about a social revolution gaining momentum." Financial Times
Collaborative Consumption has the potential to fundamentally change the way we think about designing and planning our cities as we incorporate shared transport, flexible multi-use spaces, interactive retail and hyper-local services.
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Book Description
- “A socioeconomic groundswell that will transform the way companies think about their value propositions.” Harvard Business Review
- “A remarkably hopeful and accessible book about a social revolution gaining momentum.” Financial Times
- Shortlisted for 800 CEO Read’s BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2010
- Nominated by GOOD Magazine as one of the 15 BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ IN 2010
- Nominated as one of Brainpickings’ BEST BOOKS OF 2010: BUSINESS, LIFE AND MIND”
- More reviews here
What’s Mine Is Yours charts the rise of a rapidly growing socio-economic groundswell, Collaborative Consumption. It describes how technology is enabling the sharing and exchange of all kinds of assets from money to cars to skills to stuff in ways and on a scale never possible before.
From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist, to hot sectors such as peer-to-peer travel (Airbnb), social lending (Zopa), swap trading (Swap.com) and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business and reinventing not only what we consume but how we consume.
Travelling among global entrepreneurs, as well as established companies, the book identifies three systems of Collaborative Consumption - product services systems, collaborative lifestyles and redistribution markets. It clearly maps out the key principles for global brands, start-ups and public services who want to innovate and adapt to these opportunities. Click here for an infographic mapping out the key ideas.
Botsman and Rogers outline in bold ways how Collaborative Consumption may, as TIME Magazine described it, be “One of the 10 ideas that could change the world”. Anyone interested in the power of collaboration and big ideas will enjoy this smart, timely and readable book.
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