Just published - Platforms Everywhere: Transforming organizations by integrating ecosystems in business design

Emerald publishing, 2021

As featured in:

• Innovation and Platform Business Design, MBA program, Rotman School of Management
• Business Model Innovation and Platform Design, Innovative Business Models for LNOB

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In the 21st century, business innovation faces multifaceted and interdependent challenges that require new concepts, models and tools to drive social and economic transformation.

Platforms Everywhere: Transforming Organizations by Integrating Ecosystems in Business Design presents a new comprehensive paradigm for platform businesses and a practical methodology for platforming organizations across sectors and industries.

The book explores the Meta platform business model, with four core elements that apply to all platforms regardless of their purpose and focus, and the variety of emerging types of platforms, including hybrid platforms — and presents new, systemic methodology that includes Guiding Principles for Platforming, Platforming Design Steps (with practical tools and methods), and Platforming Navigator.

Featuring strategic guidance for leveraging platform policy, platform governance, and systemic design as key drivers of innovation success, Platforms Everywhere is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities of cutting-edge business design and organizational transformation. The book is particularly beneficial for individuals and organizations interested in business innovation that taps into sources of value in ecosystems to empower stakeholders for learning and collective impact.

Check the latest podcast:

– Introduction of the book and a definition of a platform business model
– Discussion on how the research developed and evolution of business models
– A discussion in the methodology gap of how to transform an existing business into a platform business
– Discussion on what makes a platform good/bad or successful/unsuccessful.

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