HBRs 10 Must Reads on Platforms and ..., Harvard Business Review
HBRs 10 Must Reads on Platforms and ..., Harvard Business Review
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Platforms and Ecosystems

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/24/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Competition is moving beyond industry to ecosystem. Are you ready?

In the shift from pipeline to platform, value is no longer created by your company's product or process alone—it's created through interactions. And the strategy you used to become an industry leader won't help you compete in an evolving and complex ecosystem.

If you listen to nothing else on platforms and ecosystems, listen to these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you address classic challenges such as navigating the shift from controlling resources to orchestrating them, redefining value, thwarting competitive threats, and adapting your strategy.

This book will inspire you to: manage network effects and inspire users to attract more users; understand the myriad dynamics at play in a platform business; decide whether to be a chief architect or a complementor in your ecosystem; consider which of your company's existing products and services can be turned into platforms; shift from managing products to managing interactions; collaborate with other firms in an ecosystem that spans sectors; and learn to allocate—and reallocate—resources as conditions change.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Marks54 on June 25, 2023

This book is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles on subjects relating to platforms and ecosystems. As these collections go, this one is fairly good and worth reading. I am ambivalent regarding business trade books. On the one hand, they are books and occasionally quite good. Sometimes th......more

Goodreads review by Rukhsar (rukhsandbooks) on May 26, 2023

Did I understand everything in this book? No, definitely not. Do I understand and know more than I did before I read this book, absolutely! My key takeaway from this book is that no one way of doing something is correct, but the most success is delivered when there is value for multiple parties and......more

Goodreads review by Akarsh on January 02, 2022

A good introduction to Platform business and ecosystems, it's highly recommended to incumbent players in an industry that is being digitized. For entrepreneurs, the book offers several useful frameworks to include in designing their business models and expansion strategy. But the book has a conserva......more

Goodreads review by Dr on April 24, 2022

This book was not as enlightening as I expected by itself, but was also an easy read. Probably because I knew some of the concepts reading Stratecherry. But there is a lot of food for thoughtful strategy. Will be exciting to discuss applications of concepts once a few friends have read it.......more

Goodreads review by Spencer on September 09, 2023

Business strategy that felt atypical when first presented, until realizing that several of the most successful businesses of the day have built empires via platform creation. I docked two stars for the rating due to the repetitiveness of the articles.......more