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Talking about PlatformsInteraction Fields with Erich JoachimsthalerA Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society
Erich's bio: Erich Joachimsthaler, Ph.D. is a rare combination of consultant, author, entrepreneur, academic, and researcher who sheds light on massive branding, marketing, and digital transformations.
An award-winning author of several books and over 100 articles, Erich is a strategy, innovation, and branding expert, “one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on the topic of marketing,” the founder & CEO of VIVALDI, and a visiting professor and lecturer at prestigious universities around the world.
His particular focus is on developing new marketing strategies appl...2024-04-0340 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform Cooperatives with Trebor ScholzReaching back through the history of worker-owned companies to the front lines of a new economy unfolding around the world
Trebor's bio: R. Trebor Scholz is a researcher, author, and advocate for fair and sustainable digital labor practices. He is a professor and the founding director of The New School’s Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) in New York City, where he also operates a research institute with a fellowship program.
Trebor has worked to develop and promote a set of models for building worker-owned and democratically-controlled online platforms, known as “platform cooperatives.” He is the author of severa...2024-03-2749 min
Talking about PlatformsBusiness Ecosystems in Asia with Mark GreevenWe cannot afford to miss the remarkable rise of Asian business ecosystems
Mark's bio: Mark Greeven is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy and CEO of IMD China. He draws on a decade of experience in research, teaching, and consulting in China to explore how to organize innovation in a turbulent world. He was named on the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 Next Generation Business Thinkers in 2017.
Mark has collaborated with innovative Chinese companies (including Ping An, Alibaba, Pinduoduo, and Haier) and entrepreneurial multinationals (including Bayer, Evonik, Johnson & Johnson, Daimler, Nestlé, Richemont, and Swiss Re) to explore n...2024-03-2043 min
Talking about PlatformsComposable process platforms with Michael PerscheidThe Future of Enterprise Information Systems
Michael's Bio: Dr. Michael Perscheid is the Head of Composable Process Platform Innovations at SAP SE as well as the former chair representative of Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. em. More about him, here: http://michaelperscheid.de/cv/index.html
The Future of Enterprise Information Systems paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4617420
From Full-fledged ERP Systems Towards Process-centric Business Process Platforms paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02995
Michael on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KVNaMGAAAAAJ&hl=en
Michael on...2024-03-1341 min
Talking about PlatformsCities as platforms with Gesa ZiemerEnabling more livable, equitable, and resilient communities.
Gesa's bio: Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a Professor of Digital Urban Cultures at the HafenCity University Hamburg. She heads the CityScienceLab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA, USA), which researches the future of cities (with a special focus on digitalization). She is also the academic director of UNITAC, a United Nations Innovation and Technology Lab (UN-Habitat, OICT) that conducts global research on the use of technology in informal settlements. She was a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation (Feodor-Lynen Program) at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA...2024-03-0643 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform power with Robyn CaplanPlatform Accountability: A Primer
Robyn's Bio: Robyn Caplan is an Assistant Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Center for Science & Society at Duke University. She is also a Researcher Affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute, where she worked as a Senior Researcher, an Affiliate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a founding member of the Platform Governance Research Network. She received her PhD from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. She conducts research at the intersection of platform go...2024-02-1445 min
Talking about PlatformsConnected digital society with Helena RongA proposal for fractional property ownership and collective governance in local development
Helena's Bio: Helena H. Rong is an urbanist and designer with interdisciplinary training. Her research lies in the intersection of digital technology, collective intelligence architecture, and urbanism. Before her studies at Columbia GSAPP, she received her Master of Science in Urbanism (SMArchS) degree from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, where she graduated with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Silver Award (1st Place Thesis Award). Rong works as a Research Associate at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab, where she leads the “Value of De...2024-02-0749 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatforms, blockchain, and the law with Primavera De FilippiDistributing technical building blocks and platform governance
Primavera's Bio: Primavera De Filippi is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Primavera is the author of the book “Blockchain and the Law,” published in 2018 by Harvard University Press (co-authored with Aaron Wright) and she was recently awarded a € 2M research grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate how blockchain technology can he...2024-01-3137 min
Talking about PlatformsDigital public infrastructures with David EavesSociety-wide, digital capabilities that are essential to participation in society and markets as a citizen, entrepreneur, and consumer in a digital era.
David's Bio: David Eaves is an Associate Professor in Digital Government at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Previously a lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School where he taught and wrote on digital era public administration, digital transformation, and the governance of digital public infrastructure, David has co-founded Teaching Public Service in a Digital Age, which has sought to bring together faculty from around the world to co-design and share an open licensed curriculum to...2024-01-2450 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform competition with Shiva ShekharExclusivity and pricing strategies in two-sided markets
Shiva's bio: Shiva Shekhar is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), a research affiliate at the CESifo Network, and a member of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center. His current research mainly focuses on platform strategies under competition and their impact on consumers. From 10.2018-12.2020, Shiva was employed as an Economist at Compass Lexecon where I assisted the team of several high-profile mergers as well as multiple anti-trust cases spanning multiple industries.
Mentioned papers:
Superstar exclusivity in two-sided markets
Platform Transformation Risk and the Role...2024-01-1752 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform identity with Panos ConstantinidesThe formation and evolution of digital platforms across ecosystems
Panos' Bio: Panos Constantinides is a Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School. He holds a PhD from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Cambridge Digital Innovation Centre. Panos leads the Digital Transformation Research Group at Alliance Manchester Business School. Panos is also one of the co-founders of the European Digital Platforms Research Network (EUDPRN).
His research investigates how organizations use digital technologies to co-create and capture value while...2024-01-1050 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform governance design with Liang ChenThe burgeoning digital platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily characterized the platform as a market or network. Although the organizing role of platform owners is well recognized, the literature lacks a coherent approach to understanding organizational governance in the platform context. Drawing on classic organizational governance theories, this paper views digital platforms as a distinct organizational form where the mechanisms of incentive and control routinely take center stage. We systematically review research on digital platforms, categorize specific governance mechanisms related to incentive and control, and map a multitude of idiosyncratic design features studied in prior research onto these...2024-01-0347 min
Talking about PlatformsDimensions of data labor with Hanlin LiMany recent technological advances (e.g. ChatGPT and search engines) are possible only because of massive amounts of user-generated data produced through user interactions with computing systems or scraped from the web (e.g. behavior logs, user-generated content, and artwork). However, data producers have little say in what data is captured, how it is used, or who it benefits. Organizations with the ability to access and process this data, e.g. OpenAI and Google, possess immense power in shaping the technology landscape. By synthesizing related literature that reconceptualizes the production of data for computing as ``data labor'', we outline opportunities...2023-12-2747 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform ecosystems as meta‐organizations with Tobias KretschmerImplications for platform strategies, implementation, and research
Tobias' bio: Tobias Kretschmer is a Strategy, Technology, and Organization (ISTO) professor at LMU Munich School of Management. He holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School and an MSc in Strategy from the University of St. Gallen. Before joining LMU Munich, he held full-time positions at the London School of Economics and INSEAD. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Research Professor at Ifo Institute in Munich. His work focuses on strategy and organization design in technology-intensive industries, especially platform markets...2023-12-2052 min
Talking about PlatformsThe ERP platform play with Oliver BossertCheaper, faster, better
About Oliver: For more than ten years, Oliver has specialized in large-scale transformations of enterprise architecture in various customer-facing industries, such as retail, insurance, and financial services. He supports clients in establishing the function of enterprise architecture management and in executing the transformation of architecture, including the application landscape.
More recently, Oliver has focused on transformations of companies toward using platform-based architectures that allow them to build and scale digital innovation at reasonable cost beyond the pilot stage, such as by design and implementation of digital technology platforms. He also leads McKinsey’s Digital Ar...2023-12-1352 min
Talking about PlatformsIntroducing season IIIThe talk must go on!
Here is the link to Daniel's & Tommaso's book Platform Thinking as well as the MOOCs and other materials mentioned in the episode: https://platformthinking.eu/
The best way to connect with any of us is via Linkedin. Just search for Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso Buganza, or Philip Meier2023-12-0626 min
Outthinkers#99—Daniel Trabucchi: The Evolution of Platforms: Creating Value Beyond Digital ArchetypesDaniel Trabucchi is the co-author, with Tommaso Buganza, of Platform Thinking: Read the past. Write the future. He is Senior Assistant Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano where he fosters research and teaches at the intersection between innovation management and leadership, with a strong focus on platform thinking and the human side of innovation. He is the co-founder of Symplatform, the international symposium on digital platforms that aims to match managers and academics coming from various disciplines and he is the co-founder and scientific director of Platform Thinking HUB the observatory...2023-09-0124 min
Talking about PlatformsInvesting in network effects with Sameer SinghNot All Platforms Are Created Equal
Sameer's bio: Sameer Singh is an early-stage investor focused on network effects, a Venture Partner at Speedinvest, and part of the Atomico Angel Program. He created Breadcrumb.vc in 2020 to help founders understand and leverage network effects. Sameer then launched a cohort-based course called Applied Network Effects in 2021 to create a structured learning program for founders, product/growth professionals, and investors.
Link to Breadcrumb VC: https://breadcrumb.vc/
Link to Sameer's Network Effects Course: https://maven.com/breadcrumb/applied-network-effects/2023-04-1244 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform business design with Ted LaddUnderstand, Design and Innovate Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
Ted's bio: Ted Ladd is a full Professor of Entrepreneurship, former Global Dean of Research and former Dean of the San Francisco Campus at the Hult International Business School. He is also an Instructor of Platform Entrepreneurship at Harvard University and Stanford University. His research focuses on innovation in general and multi-sided platforms in specific, published in a range of academic and practitioner-focused channels. His most recent book, Innovating With Impact, with Alessandro Lanteri, is published by the Economist and distributed by Profile and Pegasus. He was a member of seven different...2023-03-2252 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform ecosystem emergence with Llewellyn D. W. ThomasBetween active design and guided serendipity.
Llewellyn's bio: Llewellyn D.W. Thomas holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College Business School, an M.B.A. (with Distinction) from Cass Business School, a L.L.B. (Honours) from University of Sydney and B.A. (Honours), also from University of Sydney. He also holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, London and a Professional Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London.
Prof. Thomas’s teaching is focused on the impact of digitalization on organizations and with special emphasis on the redesign of pr...2023-03-0856 min
Talking about PlatformsA common framework for digital platform ecosystems with Andreas HeinAbstract
Digital platforms are an omnipresent phenomenon that challenges incumbents by changing how we consume and provide digital products and services. Whereas traditional firms create value within the boundaries of a company or a supply chain, digital platforms utilize an ecosystem of autonomous agents to co-create value. Scholars from various disciplines, such as economics, technology management, and information systems have taken different perspectives on digital platform ecosystems. In this Fundamentals article, we first synthesize research on digital platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that integrates both concepts. Second, we use this definition to explain how different digital...2023-02-2245 min
Talking about PlatformsDecentralized versus distributed platforms with Jean-Philippe VergneAbstract
The terms decentralized organization and distributed organization are often used interchangeably, despite describing two distinct phenomena. I propose distinguishing decentralization, as the dispersion of organizational communications, from distribution, as the dispersion of organizational decision-making. Organizations can be distributed without being decentralized (and vice versa), and having multiple management layers directly affects only distribution – not decentralization. This proposed distinction has implications for understanding the growth of digital platforms (e.g. amazon.com), which dominate the global economy in the 21st century. While prominent platforms typically use machine learning as their core technology to transform inputs (e.g. data) into outputs (e...2023-02-0850 min
Talking about PlatformsWorkforce ecosystems with Elizabeth J. AltmanFrom VP in industry to HBS and becoming a professor doing cutting-edge research about the future of the workforce.
Liz's bio: Elizabeth J. Altman is an associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Manning School of Business. Liz is also guest editor for the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce Big Ideas initiative, a joint research effort with Deloitte. She has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). Her’s research focuses on topics related to strategy, innovation, platforms, ecos...2023-01-1949 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform participation strategies and collective governance with Rebecca KarpAs firms consider transitioning proprietary products to more open platforms to grow market share and relevance, managers might consider the concerns of external participants when designing a system to govern a platform.
Rebecca's bio: Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and execute strategies for growth. In particular, she focuses on the role innovation and differentation play in product development, integration, strategy execution, and oragnizational change. Professor Karp’s research sp...2023-01-0436 min
Talking about PlatformsWill blockchains disintermediate platforms? with Hanna HalaburdaCompetition, incentives, and the future of digital platforms in light of emerging blockchain and web3 technologies.
Hanna's bio: Hanna Halaburda joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics in September 2019.
In her research, Professor Halaburda studies how technology changes economic forces and thus affects business models and interactions in the marketplace. One strand of her work focuses on competition between digital platforms. Since 2011, she has built a research program in digital currencies and blockchain technologies, including analyses of incentives in consensus protocols, cryptocurrency adoption, smart contracts, and token...2022-12-2152 min
Talking about PlatformsFrom early platforms to cloud empires with Vili LehdonvirtaAbstract from the book we discuss with the author during the episode:
The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.
The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was...2022-12-0756 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform professionals and Web3 with Peter C. EvansThe skills platform professionals need, why there should be a Platform-MBA and how the emerging fields of decentralisation, NFTs and the Metaverse will increase the demand for people with a future-proof knowledge and skillset.
Peter's Bio: Peter C. Evans has over 20 years of experience leading teams in identifying, framing, assessing, and communicating high-priority marketplace trends and disruptions that support business planning and investment prioritization. He has held senior strategy, innovation and market intelligence roles at large global enterprises including General Electric, KPMG and IHS/CERA. Recognizing the strategic significance of platforms more than a decade ago, he led and...2022-06-2248 min
Talking about PlatformsTrust and platform avoidance with Grace GuTrust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace
Grace's Bio: Grace Gu is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Her research interests lie in the intersection of technological innovation and strategic management, with a focus on technology strategies in the IT industry. One theme of Grace’s work examines disintermediation in online marketplaces. Her other work studies users’ ideological and composition shifts in more traditional online communities such as Wikipedia.
Link to Grace's website: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/carroll-school/faculty-research/faculty-directory/Grace-Gu.html
Linke to G...2022-06-0836 min
Talking about PlatformsDigital colonization and platform regulation with Pinar Ozcan“Digital colonization” of highly regulated industries: an analysis of Big Tech platforms' entry into healthcare and education
Pinar's Bio: Pinar Ozcan is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She also serves as the Director of the Oxford Future of Finance and Technology (Fintech) Initiative.
Pinar specializes in entrepreneurship and strategy in technology markets. Her current research includes the open banking project, where she examines the industry disruption in banking through regulation and entry of fintech, and the development of the sharing economy.
Pinar completed her Ph.D. at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at the...2022-05-2531 min
Talking about PlatformsBlockchain-enabled platforms with Tommaso Buganza and Antonella MorettoAbstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode:
The importance of platform‐based businesses in the modern economy is growing continuously and becoming increasingly relevant. Specifically, the deployment of digital technologies has enhanced the applicability of two‐sided business models, enabling companies to act not just as builders and owners of assets, but as orchestrators of external resources. Management research has therefore focused increasingly on the unique aspects of this model. At the center of a two‐sided platform there is a platform provider that enables a transaction between the sides, reducing the relative transaction costs. Howeve...2022-05-1133 min
Talking about PlatformsThe impact and the future of platforms with Martin F. Kenney and John ZysmanThe Platform Economy Matures: Measuring Pervasiveness and Exploring Power
John's Bio: Zysman received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. He has written has extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy; his interests also include comparative politics, Western European politics, and political economy. Zysman’s publications include The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System (Oxford University Press, 1992), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (Basic Books, 1987), and Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change (Cornell University Press, 1983).
Martin's Bio: Martin Kenney is a...2022-04-2741 min
Talking about PlatformsAlgorithmic management and platforms with Mareike MöhlmannAlgorithmic Management of Work on Online Labor Platforms: When Matching Meets Control
Mareike's Bio: Mareike is Assistant Professor in Bentley University's IPM department (since 2020). She conducts research in the field of information systems management. She is interested in platforms' use of digital technologies (e.g., matching algorithms or digital trust tools) and the effects on platform participants (e.g., Uber drivers or Airbnb users). Her major research interests are (1) algorithmic management on online labor platforms and the future of work, and (2) digital trust and reputation on (sharing economy) platforms. She conducts qualitative and quantitative research alike.
Previously...2022-04-1336 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatform boundaries with Annabelle GawerDigital platforms’ boundaries: The interplay of firm scope, platform sides, and digital interfaces
Annabelle's Bio: A pioneer of international stature in the field of digital platforms, Prof Annabelle Gawer is Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Saïd Business School since September 2020. She is Chaired Professor in Digital Economy, Director of the Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE), and Head of the Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at the University of Surrey Business School. Her most recent 2019 book The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power explains how to build digital pla...2022-03-3051 min
Talking about PlatformsPlatforms as market orchestrators with Joost RietveldMarket Orchestrators: The Effects of Certification on Platforms and Their Complementors
Joost's Bio: Joost (/Yoast/) Rietveld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management.
His research interests are at the intersection of technology strategy and innovation management. Joost’s research seeks to understand how inter-organizational dynamics, including platform-complementor relationships, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions, affect product-level outcomes. He is also interested in how digitization facilitates new and innovative ways of doing business including the freemium and platform-based business models.
Joost’s research has been published in highly rank...2022-03-1639 min
Talking about PlatformsPiracy in the age of platforms with Milan MiricAbstract from the paper we discuss with the author during the episode
Research Summary
With the growth of digital platforms, understanding the role of property rights on those platforms has become increasingly important. Digital piracy, the unauthorized copying and distribution of digital products, is therefore an important strategic issue, both because of lost revenues and because it is thought to decrease innovation. Yet, while the latter effect is often argued, empirical evidence is limited. We study whether piracy affects innovation and whether it leads firms to shift to different types of innovations. By studying a large piracy event in a...2022-03-0248 min
Talking about PlatformsTeaser
In the first episode, Daniel and Philip describe in one minute what Talking about Platforms is all about, what you can look forward to and why you should definitely subscribe so you don't miss the upcoming episodes.
TaP will start with the first season of eight episodes and publish new episodes every other week.2022-03-0201 min