In this online course on Platform Business & Strategy, we will focus on platform business models, which have pervasively impacted various industries. While press and media coverage tends to focus on the dark sides of potential superplatforms, this online course attempts to clarify platforms’ conceptual foundations. Furthermore, you will acquire an essential set of tools and approaches to analyze and develop platforms and to find the platform in your firm’s offerings. Finally, we will discuss several trends and platform vulnerabilities, such as multi-homing, to assist you in developing defensible platform businesses.

By the end of this course, you will be able to master the foundations of platforms and go beyond the hype and heated debates in media outlets, evaluate platforms and their strategies according to the adopted business model discuss and develop products into defensible platforms, and apply platform business and strategy through the discussion of multiple examples.

Seven video lessons with downloadable files will guide you through the process by covering platforms from their basic understanding and mechanisms through the analysis of (existing) platforms and identifying platform launch strategies to tools and ways to transform your products into defensible platforms.

Enter the world of platforms and learn how to make platform business models work for your firm!