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Dear Reader, 
here's your latest newsletter on Platforms – brought to you by me and the awesome Platform Design Toolkit Team.

Download the Platform Opportunity Guide
a new essential guideline for the conscious platform shaper

To fully grasp the opportunity to create a platform strategy, a shaper needs to understand the relationship between its current identity, its key assets and capabilities, and the existing ecosystem. Only later, the shaper can fully imagine the gameplays that should characterize its strategy. 

The platform exploration phase is key as it ends with the clear definition of the opportunity, and with understanding if a more complex,  continuous iteration of design, validation, and prototyping is worth the effort.

The platform exploration phase as we understand it is made of four essential steps:

  • mapping the existing experiences;
  • identification of patterns Identify platformization, leverageable assets, and moats;
  • analyze the value chain
  • identify the pillars of the strategic gameplay.

Performing this phase is essential as it brings the platform shaper fully aware to the design phase, and therefore capable of understanding better the design process, producing stronger, and more reliable design outcomes.

The document we release today will help you go through these four sub-phases and is ideal for:

  • companies and teams that want to explore deeply an opportunity before jumping into the design;
  • strategists, consultants and designers that are interested in understanding how platform thinking molds with Value Chain analysis and market evolution.

Request access to the Platform Opportunity Exploration guide below  👇

 

 

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👉 Read more on the release note blog post 👈

In the meanwhile: The 1st Platform Design Toolkit Community Gathering!
At the very beginning of the month we gathered with our most passionate adopters from all over Europe in a 2 day unconference.  Fascinating conversations around ecosystems mobilization strategies and tools. There's a long set of insights to unwrap, and we will be certainly share them in the coming days. Stay Tuned!

Few days before the live gathering, Simone was invited by Leading Edge Forum’s Bill Murray, to hold a conversation with Simon Wardley, the creator of the renowned value chain mapping method (Wardley Maps) that is also prominently featured in the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide we are releasing today. In this webinar the two speak about harmonizing platform thinking and strategic awareness.

Watch The Webinar on Youtube

👉​ http://bit.ly/PDT-WARDLEY-LIVE
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👉 Our curated list of the best reads, videos and podcasts on Platforms (& more)
🗞️ .Reads
How Guilds Shaped the Medieval Europe Trade Ecosystem ↴
In this beautiful account, the Leading Edge Forum took us on a historical outlook to how guilds and city-states applied principles of platformization to unlock the merchant ecosystem in medieval Europe.
Value-Driven Systems as the Core of Boundaryless Organizations  ↴
In this post, Tom Graves explains how to potentially apply non-zero sums games at every scope and scale of society. How shared and value-driven governance systems can be much better than money in tinkering with broken organizations.
The Legendary Story of Mary Parker Follett ↴
A century ago, a bigger than life character anticipated tremendous knowledge in the field of organizational theory.  It's time for you to learn about the story of Mary Parker Follett whose pioneering work keeps inspiring us these days.
Putting the Learning Engine at the center ↴
What happens when you put everyone's learning and development at the center?  Quantum Monekys' account of a year-long experiment as a Deliberately Developmental Organization.
Platforms for Good ↴
In this genuine note, Manfredi Sassoli reflects on how platform design can be put at the service of greater societal purposes, defying the staggering effect of the GAFA imperative.
📼  Videos
Learning from those who walked the path! ↴    
This playlist from 2018 Marketplace Conference features NFX's James Currier, and Upwork's Jessica Tiwari among many others. Always nice to listen from those who have walked the hard path of launching platform businesses! 
📻 Podcasts
Building Network Effects Businesses ↴    
In this podcast, NFX's James Currier and Pete Flint recap their perspectives on network effects and whether it’s possible to add NFXs to an existing business or whether they have to be baked into the business model from the beginning.
Wanna play the Platform game?
A few weeks ago we released Platform Design Toolkit 2.1: it builds on two years of experience with startups, corporations and institutions of all kinds. 
Highlights on this release
  • a renewed 36 page User Guide 
  • consolidated set of canvases, now also in SVG
  • new attributions
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