Platforms & Ecosystems

Incremental platform scaling, ecosystem development for sustainable success, and competition in platform-based markets.

In our new spring issue: platform-based ecosystems, blockchain, data failures, and misbehaving leaders.

Conventional thinking says platforms must scale fast, but that can be unwise in the face of regulatory risk.

Use these metrics and red-flag indicators to boost your chances of business ecosystem success.

Doing business on giant internet platforms demands that companies rethink their competitive strategy.

Incumbent manufacturing companies face four key challenges as they shift to circular business models.

Two thought leaders discuss building strong banking, financial services, and insurance ecosystems.

First-generation blockchain applications are delivering value by removing friction in shared ecosystems.

Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces.

While livestreamed shopping is booming in China, it has struggled to take off in the West.

Learn how to navigate post-pandemic supply chains in this recent webinar with MIT professor Yossi Sheffi.

The competitive advantages offered by digital technology have evolved. Here’s how to capture them.

Understanding the subconscious drivers of strategy, responding to regulatory risks, and making sense of conflicting advice.

Platform companies should act quickly to temper regulation that erodes network effects.

To make social platforms a more positive force, we must understand the phenomena that drive them.

Winning back the gig economy, competing with revenue models, and managing teams in uncertain times.

The “sharing economy” has fallen short of its promise to workers. A new book proposes a better way.

Digital ecosystem growth depends on two partnering capabilities: digital readiness and curation.

Companies and leaders must strive to build business models using three key components for growth.

We’ve collected 12 popular strategy articles to help leaders facing new challenges sharpen their strategic thinking.