Winning Through Platforms - Ted Moser, Charlotte Bloom, Omar Akhtar

Winning Through Platforms

How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One
Buch | Softcover
376 Seiten
2023
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80455-301-5 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Every company needs a platform to thrive. How can you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? This book – a how-to-win playbook – shows you the way.
Winning through Platforms achieved #1 bestseller status, and is a Best Business Book Awards winner for 2024. It is your new go-to guide for modern competitive advantage.


Digital platforms are no longer for just the tech elite. They’re spreading to every company and industry, powered by the growth of customer sensors, streaming data, and artificial intelligence—lighting the valuable customer Use journey that was formerly dark.


How will you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? Three senior advisers to the world’s leading technology companies reveal how to win through platforms when every competitor has one.


Winning Through Platforms decodes growth moves from a decade of platform competition, communicates them through a platform playbook. It’s a treasure trove of 24 proven platform strategies—such as customer coalition design, in-use enrichment, AI branding, and much more. These playbook strategies are delivered through engaging stories of over 50 companies, plus proprietary frameworks and workshop-style questions that lead you to act.


This game-changing playbook will teach you how to:




Revitalize your business through strategic use of platforms
Design platforms that are compelling to customers and hard for competitors to match
Accelerate in-market growth through brand-and-demand excellence that spans your customer’s entire platform journey
Innovate in high-impact benefit areas to differentiate your platform
Elevate your customer’s personal platform experience
Transform your enterprise and operations to drive superior performance


Every CEO, innovator, go-to-market leader, and aspiring professional will gain valuable insight through this book. Whether your company is just starting on its first platform journey or is a born platform disruptor, this book will transform your ability to win.


Learn the platform playbook. Find and apply your plays.


This book forms part of the American Marketing Association (AMA) leadership series.

Ted Moser is a Senior Partner at Prophet, a growth and transformation consultancy, where he helps category-leading digital platform clients to anticipate market evolution, craft distinctive value growth strategies, and realize their ambitions. Ted’s client work spans innovation, branding, go to market excellence, and operating model transformation. A Wharton School MBA with highest honors in Strategy and Marketing, he previously co-authored Profit Patterns with Adrian Slywotziky to identify how profit pools shift with Internet business model innovation. He is a decades-long digital innovator for global financial inclusion. Charlotte Bloom is the CEO of VSNRY, a strategic consulting firm, where she works with visionary leaders to identify and bring to market industry-defining business strategies and innovations. Her clients have successfully launched new businesses, pivoted to more lucrative business models, been acquired and IPO’d. She is an advocate for women and ally to businesses that make the world a better place. Omar Akhtar conducts research and advises companies on best practices in data, technology and go-to-market excellence. His research publications include digital practice benchmarks, maturity models, guides for developing strategies, and frameworks for evaluating people, processes, and technologies.

Foreword; David Aaker

INTRODUCTION

Winning through Platforms

Light the Dark

Learn the Playbook, Find Your Plays

New Rules, New Mindsets

Your Journey Begins

THE PLATFORM PLAYBOOK

Strategic Advantage and the Kaleidoscope

Part One: Portfolio Plays

Chapter 1.1. Optimal Platform Role(s)

Part Two: Design Plays

Chapter 2.1. Customer Coalition Edge

Chapter 2.2. Pivotal Persona Value

Chapter 2.3. Platform-Wide Differentiators

Chapter 2.4. Magnetic Offer Architecture

In-Market Advantage and the Bee

Part Three: Demand Plays

Chapter 3.1. Brand-Demand Lead Engine

Chapter 3.2. Lead-to-Sale Smoothing

Chapter 3.3. Success to Momentum

Chapter 3.4. In-Use Enrichment

Chapter 3.5. Catalytic Community

Chapter 3.6. Customer Renewal and Expansion

Part Four: Innovation Plays

Chapter 4.1. Reimagined Flows

Chapter 4.2. Richer Ecosystems

Chapter 4.3. Better Data Deal

Chapter 4.4. Brands Get Brains

Chapter 4.5. Reality Shifts

Chapter 4.6. Visibility for Good

Alignment Advantage and the Synchronized Swimmer

Part Five: Interaction Plays

Chapter 5.1. Full Journey Engagement

Chapter 5.2. Dynamic Segmentation

Chapter 5.3. Agile Content

Chapter 5.4. Adaptive Innovation

Part Six: Transformation Plays

Chapter 6.1. Enterprise Body, Mind & Soul

Chapter 6.2. Collaborative Go to Market

Chapter 6.3. Growth Operations

ACTION

Transformative Leadership

Company Leadership

Key Function Leadership

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Marketing Association
Vorwort David Aaker
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 467 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Marketing / Vertrieb
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-80455-301-8 / 1804553018
ISBN-13 978-1-80455-301-5 / 9781804553015
Zustand Neuware
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