13 Jul 2010

What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

There’s a great trend on the horizon and it’s making its way here. The online hub for Collaborative Consumption — the powerful socioeconomic groundswell that is transforming business, consumerism, and the way we live. People are already using the principles and dynamics of Collaborative Consumption— organized sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping through online and real-world communities — to get the same fulfillment and benefits of ownership with reduced personal burden and cost and as well as lower environmental impact.

 

For starters, here are two sectors where the evolution in Collaborative Consumption has taken off:

CC Evolution of the Car Market

CC Evolution of the Personal Lending Market

 

 

Via: http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/

 

What do you think? Have you seen this in your area? Share your thoughts on this subject.

 

  
Mark Powers

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