There are now 25 executive education courses offered world-wide specific to platforms.
Are these courses serving next generation platform leadership needs of companies? How about your needs as an individual seeking to advance your career as a platform professional? Can you find the course(s) you need? What’s working? What needs improvement?
Based upon me following the research I do not believe there is a one course, or one degree, that fits all business cases and scenarios. I think it's about how the network effect business model is applied to each business case and scenario. How the network effect model is applied to the business can take form in many different ways given each market space being applied to. There is no one size (network effect) fits all business models.
The way I understand the network effect business model is that it is a matter of attracting markets together continuously as they play out, which shows scale to the network effect model being implemented. A good platform leader will be one who has a deep level of understanding to the markets trying to be attracted together and there inner workings that make them work. And also, how to apply the research of network effects to these markets to attract them together through some kind of process solution.
I do not believe there is a specific course that covers all this information together given each different market space. How the network effect model is applied to each market can be different.
I am an IoT guy. And, how I see the network effect business model being applied to IoT is slightly different from what currently exists in the current information to network effects.
I have gained this perspective through researching the network effect model with also doing deep research into the IoT market space and what makes up IoT for the ground up. This has given me a deep level of understanding to IoT and what makes the markets work.
Just my opinions and thoughts as I come across matrials like this. 🙂
maybe this set of courses start with a broad approach to put some common background ... but I agree there too many use and business cases to be emerge to help us understand in more detail the dynamics of how each platform business model behave given all the variables a given sector, market and idea has ... great comment love the insights and discussions 🤟🏻🤟🏻
From a corporate point of view, considering organization reluctance to change and how deep digitalization may change a company. Courses with different levels of expertise and depth would help those organization to expand the basis to drive the change, from leadership, execution or simply involved actors.