Latest Video: A Chat With Android Co-Founder, Rich Miner
At the MIT Platform Strategy Summit held in July, IDE professor Marshall Van Alstyne interviewed Rich Miner, Android's co-founder, about investments and investing as a platform ecosystem. They also...
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The Acceleration of Platform Shifts
Marshall Van Alstyne, professor at Boston University’s School of Management and a Research Scientist at MIT’s IDE, will discuss Platform Shift: How New Business Models Are Changing the Shape of...
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Platform Strategies in the Limelight
Digital platform strategies are stepping into the limelight and leading mainstream business change. At the MIT IDE Platform Strategy Summit last week, Paul Daugherty, CTO of Accenture, (pictured, left)...
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Traditional Sectors Ripe for Platform Models
Healthcare, education and law are poised to be the next major sectors hit by a digital platform tsunami. According to tech and economic gurus speaking at the July 10 IDE Platform Strategy Summit,these...
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Sangeet Choudary: Interactions Must Drive Platform Design
Amid all the discussions about ecosystems, networks and platforms at the MIT IDE July Platform Summit, Sangeet Choudary drilled down to offer specific tips on getting started and designing what he...
View ArticleLatest Video from the 2015 Platform Summit
At the recent Platform Strategy Summit, IDE's Marshall Van Alstyne offered insights into the extraordinary changes taking place as a result of networked ecosystems. Here are some highlights from his...
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Fine-tuning User Value: Q&A With Michael Schrage
A new paper by IDE Research Fellow Michael Schrage offers divergent insights into platform markets and network effects. In the paper, Rethinking Networks: Exploring Strategies for Making Users More...
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How Digital Platforms are Revolutionizing Markets
By Geoffrey Parker and Marshall VanAlstyne It’s no overstatement to say that the two-sided networked market, or platform, business and organizational model is one of the most important economic and...
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Platforms and the New Rules of Strategy
Recently, I wrote about one of the talks at the annual conference of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy - Only Humans Need Apply by Tom Davenport, based on his recently published book of the...
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The Platform Imperative Goes Mainstream
Much has changed in the past two years since MIT IDE presented its first Platform Strategies Summit. The idea of interconnected, information-driven networks creating value through open partnerships is...
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