Politecnico di Milano
Platform Thinking: Innovation in digital business models era Specialization
Politecnico di Milano

Platform Thinking: Innovation in digital business models era Specialization

Spark Business Transformation through Platforms. Master platform models to foster innovation and exploit opportunities.

Tommaso Buganza
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Instructors: Tommaso Buganza

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.9

(29 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to read the complexity of platforms around us, recognizing the peculiarities that differentiate many companies that we simple label as platforms

  • How to leverage platform mechanisms to unlock digital business transformation and opportunities for innovation

  • How to properly design and launch a digital platform, triggered by idle assets or data-driven opportunities

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

  • Understand the impact that platforms have in our daily life

  • Identify the main typologies of platforms in the business world

  • Assess the evolution of the concept of platforms over time in the management world

  • Apply the main “platform thinking” logics to existing platforms to see their innovative power

Skills you'll gain

Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Innovation
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Company, Product, and Service Knowledge
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Market Dynamics
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Scalability

What you'll learn

  • To understand the main design variables to design a successful and meaningful platform

  • To assess the main strategies to kick-off a platform

  • To assess the main variables to manage the platform growth

  • To apply the main “platform thinking” logics to established businesses to foster innovation

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Target Market
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: New Business Development
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Computing Platforms
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Customer Analysis
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Product Development
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Business Architecture
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Platform As A Service (PaaS)

What you'll learn

  • To understand the role of data in the sustainability of digital business models

  • To assess the various strategies to capture value from data

  • To analyze the business environment around you to identify potentialities for a platform revolution based on data

  • To analyze the available data to apply platform thinking

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Customer Insights
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Advertising
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Personally Identifiable Information
Category: User Research
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Strategy
Category: Big Data
Category: Customer Data Management

What you'll learn

  • Understand the role digital technologies in enabling platform models

  • Assess the various strategies to cope with technological evolution

  • Analyze previous technological cycles to learn from them and get ready to react to the future

  • Assess innovation opportunities, through platforms, driven by technological evolution

Skills you'll gain

Category: Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Innovation
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Virtual Environment
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Technology Solutions

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Tommaso Buganza
Politecnico di Milano
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