What you'll learn

  • Define what platforms are and how they create and capture value

  • Understand network effects and how to leverage them to achieve growth

  • Discover how to launch, scale, and maintain a successful platform business

  • Overcome operational challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business

  • Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a platform

  • Build offensive and defensive plans to effectively develop or compete against platform companies

Course description

Winning with Digital Platforms is for those who want to launch, scale, maintain, or work with a successful platform business. You’ll explore platforms’ unique properties, opportunities, and risks and learn how to develop effective strategies that deliver a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Instructors

You may also like

Online

Build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Price
$1,850
Duration
5 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Jan 29
Online

Develop marketing strategies that reach and retain customers in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Price
$1,850
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Jan 15
Online

Develop the entrepreneurial mindset and toolkit to create a viable, scalable business with minimal data, limited resources, and tight budgets in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Price
$1,850
Duration
4 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Jan 29