Platform Strategy

Dr Tero Ojanperä is a world-renowned technology business leader. The co-founder of Silo AI, one of Europe's largest private AI labs, he is an investor and venture capitalist. Fast Company crowned him the seventh most creative person in business and he is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. He lives in Helsinki, Finland. Prof Timo O. Vuori is a strategy consultant and professor at Aalto University, a Financial Times top 40 business school. Timo helps companies formulate and execute strategies, helping them transform into intelligent platforms. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.

Chapter - 00: Introduction - Intelligent platforms are winning;
Chapter - 01: Turn fear into energy;
Chapter - 02: Remove friction;
Chapter - 03: Focus your actions to create fans;
Chapter - 04: Create a learning loop;
Chapter - 05: Open up with an algorithmic handshake;
Chapter - 06: Create the unexpected;
Chapter - 07: Organize around AI;
Chapter - 08: References

"This book provides a comprehensive and cutting edge set of insights on how to succeed in deploying value-creating platforms, relying on state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and machine learning. It provides many practical step-by-step frameworks for executives to plan their implementation of platform-based offerings. One of the book's more distinctive values is that it combines both hard and soft considerations. The authors provide many useful insights related to hard aspects such as strategies, organizational structures and systems, and software technologies such as application programming interfaces (APIs). And they deftly combine these hard aspects with soft behavioural factors such as emotional energy, human creative thinking and responsible control over AI."

"Platform business models together with AI create a new competitive advantage and superior value for customers. A clear and practical guide on how to build an Intelligent Platform with your team and external stakeholders."

"This book provides hands-on guidance on how platform strategies, combined with the forces of data and AI, will create a competitive edge for companies regardless of industry. The authors' combination of research and in-depth experience provides leaders with the sense of urgency needed to be a winner in the future. Regardless of sector, companies will need the confidence to cooperate in smart and open eco-systems and thereby create greater outcomes together with partners. I especially appreciated the human-centric view on leadership and organizational impact to simplify governance and speed up the transformation for the benefits of customers, employees and society at large. Read it!"

"As C-Level executives or non-executive directors of technology companies, we all strive to stay current with the technologies that underpin the power and appeal of platforms and AI. The bigger challenge however is to distill this down to a set of practical priorities that are executable and scalable across distributed workforces. The authors explain in a practical way how to get started with building an intelligent platform to transform your business. But even more importantly, you will learn what you can do as a leader to drive change and help your team, colleagues, and external stakeholders succeed in an ever-increasing competitive world."

"This book brilliantly ties together the essential components needed for transforming your business using AI, platform thinking, and human creativity."