PROMPT is an innovative AI-guided methodology revolutionizing platform business model development. With a structured five-phase approach, PROMPT simplifies complex decisions, offers real-time validation, and integrates strategic planning with practical implementation. Ideal for businesses aiming for efficient, scalable, and robust platform designs.

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The Platform Business Model Ontology provides a structured framework for understanding and implementing platform-based business models. It systematically organizes the concepts, relationships, and patterns that enable successful platform operations across five core domains: Formation, Discovery, Contract, Delivery, and Settlement. It serves as both a theoretical foundation and practical guide, detailing how platforms create environments for value exchange, facilitate participant matching, formalize agreements, ensure reliable delivery, and complete transactions. 

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The MONJO Taxonomy provides a comprehensive framework for organizing and understanding enterprise management concepts through seven core perspectives: Organization Profile, External Environment, Resources & Effects, Value Creation, Governance, Management, and Records. Each perspective contains focused base classes that capture essential business concepts and their relationships, enabling users to systematically model their business domain in a manner that supports both operational needs and strategy.

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The Platform Business Model Nomenclature serves as a comprehensive reference guide for understanding and implementing platform business models. It provides standardized definitions, practical examples, and related terminology for over 200 essential platform concepts across all major operational domains, making it valuable for platform architects and development teams working on digital platform initiatives. 

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Over the last couple of years there has been a dramatic change in business models. Many of the fastest growing and highly valued companies are platform-based firms like Uber, Amazon or Google. The major change happened in the way the companies create value for their customers. Do you think a platform company creates just as much value as a traditional manufacturer?

Michael G. Jacobides discussing why companies should have ecosystem strategy, his articles in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and more. 

Who will talk about how to generate more revenue with an ecosystem business model. He will cover the steps towards an ecosystem business model, from getting company-wide buy-in to understanding partner influence at every stage of the buyer’s journey and customer lifecycle. 

A short introduction to the platform navigator: 88 Patterns cards to design and implement platform business models

A business ecosystem is a group of interconnected elements that can drive your business. It results from the interaction of a community that relates to and supports your business. This concept is one that entrepreneurs must consciously adopt to grow their businesses. 

This 20-minute video discusses the competitive position and expected future developments of platforms in the sharing economy and platform business models in general.  This video was part of Jochen's online EMBA class. 

There is a lot of talk about platforms and sometimes it's a bit fuzzy what that term specifically refers to. However, one notion of platform is very well defined and that's that of a platform business. Should you maybe even try becoming one because they are so profitable? 

Right now, 6 of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world are “platform businesses,” including Apple and Amazon. This article defines what it means to be a platform business, and examines some of the best examples of this growing trend. 

Alex explains what a platform business is and how the platform business model works.  

In an opening keynote speech at the 2016 Social Business Forum, Sangeet Paul Choudary shares on the impact of the platform economy and the need for proper governance of large platforms. 

Digital transformation isn't just about improving efficiency—it's about fundamentally redesigning business models. Find out why focusing on technology alone isn't enough, and learn the essential framework for designing platforms that create and capture value through enabling interactions at scale 

Sangeet Paul Choudary talks on Exponential Business Models at the Customer Centricity World 2016. He explores the five factors that lead to exponential growth and key platform advantages. 

An introductory overview of the Platform Canvas, a tool for entrepreneurs and managers to understand, design and innovate platform businesses. 

(1) (Platform Series with Julian Wright + Andrei Hagiu)

One method to use to move from a Product/Linear business to a Platform business and explored the benefits, pre-requisites, pitfalls, and tradeoffs of this method.  

Why Yahoo, Blackberry and Nokia failed, and Facebook, Amazon and Google succeeded.  

Platforms are business models that allow consumers and producers to connect with each other to exchange goods, services, content, money, information, and more. Platforms don't own the means of production. They create the means of connection   

how Platforms are changing the world, its implications for firms and the strategies to adopt to meet the needs of the changing world.    

What is a platform and its difference from an #ecosystem, and can your business become a platform (or should you join someone else's).    

The fundamentals of a digital platform and platform business models - this presentation serves as the starting point for all who want to design their own platform business.     

What platforms are, the role of network effects in platform markets, and how platforms often challenge existing gatekeepers.    

When MIT Sloan analyzed a list of more than 200 unicorns, (startups with valuations of $1 billion or more), they estimated that 60% to 70% were platform businesses.    

In an asymmetric business model, the organization doesn't monetize the user directly, but it leverages the data users provide coupled with technology, thus have a key customer pay to sustain the core asset. For example, Google makes money by leveraging users' data, combined with its algorithms sold to advertisers for visibility.     

Introducing The Platform Institute, masterclasses on platform business models targeted at startups and enterprises.      

An industry guide to platform business models: Introducing The Platform Institute, e-learning programs on platform business models targeted at startups and enterprises. 

Professor Melissa Schilling discusses the components of platform ecosystems, and their benefits.