Platforms are changing the way we work together and create value. As central interfaces, these platforms support interaction and organize capabilities and resources. The exchange goes beyond traditional corporate boundaries. Creating value in a digitized context is less and less about finding the right path. Besides efficiency or control, it’s predominantly about more about orchestrating and dovetailing transactions.

In order to successfully establish a platform or even just initially fill it with life, it is therefore necessary to take a multidimensional view of value creation and added value for the respective stakeholders involved. After all, a platform thrives on an attractive design for all participants represented – producers and consumers should regularly exchange information on it.

Target group

• Managers and founders who want to generate innovations in large or small companies and start-ups that need to develop new products.
  Creatives, designers and consultants who want to use a simple and effective set of design tools to create solutions for their products.
• Community managers of digital platforms or cooperation areas such as incubators, makerspaces, coworking spaces or similar networks
• Public sector employees who want to understand how to build and deploy platforms in a targeted way
• Social entrepreneurs and innovators who want to use the possibilities of digital platforms for their purposes

What you can expect

• You understand how to mobilize and effectively leverage an existing ecosystem
• They develop strategies for mobilizing a (new) ecosystem
• You identify the most important transactions and ensure that there are channels for these areas on the platform
• You will design strategies for appropriate experiences and transactional values for all platform stakeholders
• You develop new platform business models
  A) based on your available core competencies or
  B) to implement completely new approaches.
• You evaluate and design the platform business models taking into account the key building blocks
• You define a strategy that solves the chicken-and-egg problem and enables strong network effects

What you get

• 2-3 day workshop designed together with you
• Materials and instructions
• Creation of a strategy document that ensures the usability of the platform
• Mentoring phase (8 hrs.) – to ensure team follows through on execution

FAQ

• What happens if I already have a platform project?
  The workshop is also used to identify strategic gaps and ideas and provide practical information to teams.
• How many people can participate?
  For maximum productivity, I recommend inviting fewer than 12 participants to a strategic workshop….