A primer in understanding all the dimensions of the pricing problem and opportunity in Marketplace-platforms by Simone Cicero and Manfredi Sassoli de Bianchi — This fifth research update on the emerging landscape of growth in platforms and marketplaces is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. This essay presents all the elements of a platform strategy and their relationship to pricing, we cover the take-rate —…

Framing the new growth landscape for growth, network effects dependent Value Propositions by Simone Cicero and Manfredi Sassoli de Bianchi — This first research update on the emerging landscape of growth in platforms and marketplaces is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. This essay presents the first framing of an upcoming integration to the Platform Design Toolkit: a new Guide and a…

Unbundling and Re-bundling as the world changes — This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. All the links you’ll find in this post were previously mentioned in it, so … subscribe! This end of the year blog post provides a — always very much acclaimed by our…

by Simone Cicero and Emanuele Quintarelli This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter and it’s part of a new series on most innovative organizations of the 21C called EEEO Conversations. As the loyal readers will certainly know, in the…

Abstract — In this post, we reflect on the difference and convergences between DAOs and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations, following some preliminary thoughts that have been shared in our 3EO community. …

Abstract In this post, we share our latest advancements in the integration of Wardley mapping with our Platform Design Toolkit, and more specifically our Platform Opportunity Exploration part of the framework. …

Abstract In the last few months, we’ve been working to integrate Ulwick’s Jobs To Be Done theory into our platform design framework. …

What are the possibilities that web3, tokenomics, and the adoption of blockchain technology are enabling for founders? What are the steps to funding, and then transitioning to the network? Why and how should founders look into these possibilities? In this comprehensive long read we answer a lot of these questions by leveraging some real-world examples. — In this installment of the Platform-Ecosystem Atlas series, we’ll explore some of the emerging approaches being used to create web3 enabled platform-ecosystem initiatives. We focus the analysis on those web3 initiatives that aim at weaving “networks”, large communities of users that engage in scalable interactions across a certain “functional domain”…

How to map an Ecosystem? Let’s explore how to create a manageable breakdown — Abstract With this installment, we inaugurate a series called Platform-Ecosystem Atlas a series aimed at giving our readers a strong frame of reference of everything related to platform-ecosystem thinking that will likely lead to a more structured publication such as a book or new whitepaper. …