Platforms & Ecosystems
Accelerate Digital Transformation With ‘No-Code’ Software Tools
No-code software development platforms enable nontechnical teams to create and deploy simple apps quickly.
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Platforms & Ecosystems
Why Companies Must Embrace Microservices and Modular Thinking
Monolithic, highly interdependent organizations can become modular ones by embracing microservices.
Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan
Business Models
How to Win at the Platform Game
There’s power in integrating subscription-based software, platform marketplaces, and machine learning.
Barry D. Libert
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang
Platforms & Ecosystems
Interactive: The Workforce Ecosystem Perspective
Use this dashboard to benchmark your organization’s readiness to adopt a workforce ecosystem approach.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Learning, Engagement, and Empowerment: 1-800-Flowers’ Amit Shah
Amit Shah, president of 1-800-Flowers, explains why lifelong learners are the best technical talent.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Platforms & Ecosystems
Workforce Ecosystems
Our new report, “Workforce Ecosystems: A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work,” describes how many organizations are recognizing that workforce ecosystems offer a productive approach to strategic workforce management.
Elizabeth J. Altman, Jeff Schwartz, David Kiron, Robin Jones, and Diana Kearns-Manolatos
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Best of This Week
Incremental platform scaling, ecosystem development for sustainable success, and competition in platform-based markets.
The MIT SMR Editors
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
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
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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.