Platform Mindset: Seven Simple Steps to Revolutionize Your Business

What do Amazon, Google, Visa and AirBnB all have in common? They are all platform businesses. They know they can go beyond their industry segments. They capitalize on wider ecosystems that strengthen their offering and expand commercial opportunities. And now your business can do the same.

Welcome to the world of platform businesses. In Platform Strategy one of the world’s most creative men in business according to Fast Company and a leading strategy professor at a Financial Times top 40 business school show you the ropes. They lead you through the seven steps you can take to turn your business into a successful platform. Learn to harness emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, cement your business into thriving ecosystems and go beyond industry boundaries. Uncover how business leaders at companies as diverse as John Deere, KONE, and Visa are leading their businesses to the future by reinventing their business model.

Authors Tero Ojanperä and Timo Vuori distil the disrupters’ methods to an actionable blueprint. In Platform Strategy they put the emphasis on what you can do as leader; harness new technologies, work with partners but also crucially, recognize the fear of change in your people and utilize that energy to drive progress. More than just about technology, this book is at the centre of the leadership agenda for the future.

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 also an experienced 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.

Prof Timo Vuori is a strategy consultant and professor at Aalto University, a Financial Times top 40 business school. Timo consults for clients on how to formulate and execute strategies, often helping them transform into intelligent platforms. Both are based in Helsinki, Finland.