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Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem
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MIT University 
Overview

Describe the common evolution patterns of multisided platforms, including same-side vs. cross-side network effects

Duration

11 days

Total fee

3.88 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Through case studies and Q&A, experienced managers will emerge with insights into how they can refresh their company's strategic approach
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Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem
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MIT University 
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Who should do this course?
  • For Corporate strategy and business development
  • For Marketing
  • For Product & service development
  • For R&D and innovation
  • For Application development and content management
What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify examples of traditional and non-traditional forms of platforms
  • Identify customer and user groups whose affiliation with the platform is most valuable
  • Decide whether to try to 'tie-customers to a platform or not -the value of open vs. proprietary networks
  • Design strategies to undermine an established platform or to defend against such attacks
  • Describe the principles of platform pricing and how to inform the design of an effective pricing format
  • Recognize the concrete implications of trade-offs in platform design, governance, and staging
  • Decide whether a given value proposition is best developed as a stand-alone platform, or as a complement embedded into another platform's ecosystem'or whether to pivot away from platform strategies all together
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  • Through case studies and an ongoing faculty-directed mini project, students will emerge with robust insights into how you can refresh your company's strategic approach and participate profitably in the multi-sided marketplaces of the future

Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem
 at 
MIT University 
Curriculum

Week 1

DAY 1 Introduction/What is a Platform?

DAY 2 Platform Coring

DAY 3 Platform Coring

DAY 4 Seeding a Platform

DAY 5 Seeding a Platform

Week 2

DAY 6 Monetezation

DAY 7 Monetezation

DAY 8 Ebooks

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Platform Strategy: Building and Thriving in a Vibrant Ecosystem
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MIT University 
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Pierre Azoulay
Pierre Azoulay is the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Catherine Tucker
Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program

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