Platforms & Ecosystems
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Incremental platform scaling, ecosystem development for sustainable success, and competition in platform-based markets.
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Platforms & Ecosystems
Our Guide to the Spring 2021 Issue
In our new spring issue: platform-based ecosystems, blockchain, data failures, and misbehaving leaders.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Platforms & Ecosystems
Platform Scaling, Fast and Slow
Conventional thinking says platforms must scale fast, but that can be unwise in the face of regulatory risk.
Max Büge and Pinar Ozcan
Platforms & Ecosystems
How Healthy Is Your Business Ecosystem?
Use these metrics and red-flag indicators to boost your chances of business ecosystem success.
Ulrich Pidun, Martin Reeves, and Edzard Wesselink
Platforms & Ecosystems
Competing on Platforms
Doing business on giant internet platforms demands that companies rethink their competitive strategy.
Donato Cutolo, Andrew Hargadon, and Martin Kenney
Business Models
New Strategies for the Platform Economy
How do smaller companies find competitive advantage and limit risk in a platform-based economy?
Sustainability
The Four Fatal Mistakes Holding Back Circular Business Models
Incumbent manufacturing companies face four key challenges as they shift to circular business models.
Johan Frishammar and Vinit Parida
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
Creating Collaborative Ecosystems to Transform Customer Experience
Two thought leaders discuss building strong banking, financial services, and insurance ecosystems.
Renée Richardson Gosline and K. Krithivasan
Technology Innovation Strategy
What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business
First-generation blockchain applications are delivering value by removing friction in shared ecosystems.
Mary Lacity and Remko Van Hoek
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems
Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces.
Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones
Social Media
What the West Can Learn From China’s Live Commerce Success
While livestreamed shopping is booming in China, it has struggled to take off in the West.
Michael Wade and Jialu Shan
Supply Chains & Logistics
Reshaping Supply Chains for a Post-Pandemic World
Learn how to navigate post-pandemic supply chains in this recent webinar with MIT professor Yossi Sheffi.
Yossi Sheffi and Paul Michelman
Organizational Transformation
The New Elements of Digital Transformation
The competitive advantages offered by digital technology have evolved. Here’s how to capture them.
Didier Bonnet and George Westerman
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Understanding the subconscious drivers of strategy, responding to regulatory risks, and making sense of conflicting advice.
The MIT SMR Editors
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Rising Risk of Platform Regulation
Platform companies should act quickly to temper regulation that erodes network effects.
D. Daniel Sokol and Marshall Van Alstyne
Social Media
Can We Amplify the Good and Contain the Bad of Social Media?
To make social platforms a more positive force, we must understand the phenomena that drive them.
Sinan Aral, interviewed by Paul Michelman
Business Models
The Best of This Week
Winning back the gig economy, competing with revenue models, and managing teams in uncertain times.
The MIT SMR Editors
Platforms & Ecosystems
Reclaiming the Gig Economy
The “sharing economy” has fallen short of its promise to workers. A new book proposes a better way.
Juliet Schor, interviewed by Tam Harbert
Platforms & Ecosystems
Driving Growth in Digital Ecosystems
Digital ecosystem growth depends on two partnering capabilities: digital readiness and curation.
Ina M. Sebastian, Peter Weill, and Stephanie L. Woerner
Business Models
Modern Business Models Will Drive the Post-Pandemic World
Companies and leaders must strive to build business models using three key components for growth.
Lanham Napier, Jim Curry, Barry Libert, and K.D. de Vries
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