1. Platform business models are disrupting traditional linear "pipeline" models through network effects and access over ownership.
2. Ecosystem leadership is key for platform companies, requiring understanding users, expanding boundaries, leveraging resources, and cultivating trust across the ecosystem.
3. Many jobs will be automated through technologies like AI, robotics, and blockchain, while jobs requiring creativity, social-emotional skills, and non-routine problem solving will increase in demand. Skills will need to constantly adapt to an uncertain future.
2. If the rate of change on the
outside (of an organization)
exceeds the rate of
change on the inside,
the end is near....
-Jack Welch
3. Digital is the main reason
just over half the Fortune 500 companies
have disappeared since the year 2000.
-Pierre Nanterme, CEO Accenture, 2016
Yet..Digital disruption
has only just begun.
4. All our knowledge is about the past, but all
our strategic decisions are about the future
What we don’t know
we don’t know
about the future What we
know
What we know
we don’t know
Conway 2003
7. “We always overestimate the change
that will occur in the next two years
and underestimate the change that will
occur in the next ten.”
- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1996
9. H.I.S. Co. has two Henn na Hotels run
“entirely” by robots and plans to open 100 hotels.
Food
deliveriesCheck-in
Other Automated Tasks
Concierge
Porters
Cleaning
Lawnmowing
Room Service
Robot Trashcan
Robot fish
11. Decline in routine jobs, even after recovery
H. Siu (Univ of BC) & N. Jaimovich (Duke Univ), 2015
In 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at Goldman
Sachs’s New York headquarters employed 600 traders,
buying and selling stock for large clients.
Today there are just 2 traders left.
12. People
• “Net generation”
• 24x7 “mobile” workforce
• Knowledge via MOOCs
• Sharing not owning
• Sustainability
• Gigs and not jobs
Technology
• Broadband/wifi
• Smart phones
• Cloud
• Internet of Things
• Data/ML/NN
• Autonomous vehicles
• Smart Robotics
• VR/AR/Holography
• 3D printing/ALM
• Blockchains
Open Source IP
• Software
• Hardware
• Physibles
Convergence of…..
Finance
• Microlending/microfinance
• Crowdfunding/equity/P2P
• Cryptocurrencies/tokens
• Blockchains
• Mobile money and payments
• M2M and R2R payments
15. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
“…an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof
instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact
directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.”
17. Technology replacing Energy and Banking
Updated from http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-largest-companies-market-cap-15-years/
$905B $660B$730B $512B
2018
$280B
18. The New Multinationals
CGE Platform Database with Quid visualization, 2015
Over $3 trillion in firm market cap
Selected platform companies Emerging platform
clusters
2016 Parker & Van Alstyne, with Choudary – licensed under Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
20. FIRM FOUNDED EMPLOYEES MKT CAP
BMW 1916 125,000 $60B
UBER 2009 11,000 $48B
MARRIOTT 1927 227,000 $51B
AIRBNB 2008 5,000 $31B
WALT DISNEY 1923 195,000 $167B
FACEBOOK 2004 21,000 $512B
WALMART 1962 2,300,000 $298B
ALIBABA 1999 50,000 $469B
Adapted from Parker & Van Alstyne, with Choudary, 2016, updated January 2018
Something fundamental is changing
24. Pipeline BMs vs Platform BMs
• Seller of products and/or services
• SMACIT to make linear process
efficient
• Supply-side economies of scale
• Manager of firm with distinct
boundaries
• First mover advantage
• Ownership of resources
• Destination for solving customer
needs
• SMACIT to co-create value
• Demand-side economies of scale
(network effects)
• Leader of ecosystem with fuzzy
boundaries
• First to scale advantage
• Access to resources
PLATFORM
CONSUMERSPRODUCERS
Elements of value exchange
Adapted from Parker & Van Alstyne 2016
26. PLATFORM
CONSUMERSPRODUCERS
Ecosystem Leadership
Ensure central
position
within
ecosystem
Develop deep
understanding
of users on
both sides
Expand/cross
industry
boundaries
Leverage
resources in
ecosystem
Create
attractiveness
through
cultivating
trust
Leverage networks for ecosystem leadership
1. Encourage
interactions across
all “boundaries”
5. Scale through
operational
excellence
4. Create agility through
control over and access
to resources, not
ownership
3. Define value co-
creation opportunities
to provide holistic
solutions
2. Use AI to
analyze data
from multiple
sources
Teigland 2017
27. Expanding industry boundaries
“to build the future infrastructure of commerce”
“We want to help
small businesses grow
by solving their
problems.”
- Founder & CEO Jack Ma
29. Technologies enabling
interactions among strangers
AI/Big data – Predicting/prescribing transactions
Biometrics – Identification in transactions
Robots/automation – Conducting transactions
3D printing – Localizing transactions
Blockchain – Financing and securing transactions
VR/AR – Experiencing transactions
30. PLATFORM
CONSUMERSPRODUCERS
Ecosystem Leadership
Ensure central
position
within
ecosystem
Develop deep
understanding
of users on
both sides
Expand/cross
industry
boundaries
Leverage
resources in
ecosystem
Create
attractiveness
through
cultivating
trust
Leverage networks for ecosystem leadership
1. Encourage
interactions across
all “boundaries”
5. Scale through
operational
excellence
4. Create agility through
control over and access
to resources, not
ownership
3. Define value co-
creation opportunities
to provide holistic
solutions
2. Use AI to
analyze data
from multiple
sources
Teigland 2017
31.
32. Interpersonal trust – people
Institutional trust – platform
Enabling trust between strangers
1st Rev
2nd Rev
3rd Rev
Changing nature of trust
Institutional trust - brand
4th Rev
33. TRUST: The prerequisite to the ability to scale
• Third parties attached to platform
– Fraud
– Operational
– Health, safety
• Payment systems
– Functionality
– Fraud
• Privacy of data
– Cybersecurity
– Ethical usage of personal data
Trust in
Digital
Environments
35. CREATORS1. Platform actors
3. Business model
CREATION CURATION CONSUMPTION
2. Core interaction to
produce value unit
CONSUMERS
CREATORS
CONSUMERS
COMPANY CREATORS
CREATORS
COMPANY COMPANY
COMPANY
CONSUMERS
CONSUMERS
CONSUMERS
Adapted from Parker, Van Alstyne, & Choudary, 2016, Boudreau & Lakhani, 2009, 2013, Kohler 2016
INTEGRATOR PRODUCT TWO-SIDED
CORE INTERACTION VALUE UNIT
PLATFORM ACTORS
36.
37. CREATORS1. Platform actors
3. Business model
CREATION CURATION CONSUMPTION
2. Core interaction to
produce value unit
CONSUMERS
CREATORS
CONSUMERS
COMPANY CREATORS
CREATORS
COMPANY COMPANY
COMPANY
CONSUMERS
CONSUMERS
CONSUMERS
Adapted from Parker, Van Alstyne, & Choudary, 2016, Boudreau & Lakhani, 2009, 2013, Kohler 2016
INTEGRATOR PRODUCT TWO-SIDED
CORE INTERACTION VALUE UNIT
PLATFORM ACTORS
38. Community platform
Hierarchical firmVS
E.g., Microsoft
~ Created by employees within
organizational boundaries
E.g., eZ Systems
~ Created by community collaborators
regardless of affiliation
The Flipped Firm: New model of value creation?
39. * More and more, firms are becoming part of distributed knowledge creation. e.g.
IBM, Oracle, Intel (Bonaccorsi et al., 2006)
* Community and firm share experiences and knowledge to co-create value
* Community is seen as a complementary asset to be leveraged and combined with
firm’s internal assets to deliver competitive solutions (Dahlander & Wallin, 2006)
* However resources of community that firm wants to leverage are outside firm
boundaries and embedded in community with competing logic
* Firms try to influence the communities in different ways (Dahlander & Wallin, 2006;
Dahlander &Magnusson, 2008; Jarvenpaa & Lang, 2011; West & O’Mahony, 2008)
Involvement of Firms
in Open Source Communities
43. Opportunities and challenges with
firm-sponsored OSS communities
OSS communities as complementary asset
for firms with great potential for firms to
turn community outputs into new service
offerings
BUT, there is potential for goal conflict
between the firm and the community since
the firm is in control
Firm’s goal is to profit from the
investment
Community’s goal is to improve the
shared technology
45. But there’s tension...
Private Model
Distribution of returns
and delegation of value
creation solely to
Collective Model
Openness and free
distribution of intellectual
ideas for common or
public good
VS
von Hippel & von Krogh 2003
47. Community platform
Hierarchical firmVS
E.g., Ford
~ Created by employees within
organizational boundaries
E.g., Local Motors
~ Created by community collaborators
regardless of affiliation
The Flipped Firm: New model of value creation?
48. • 100xs lower capital cost
• 5xs faster production
“Local Motors is the place for people to create
influential vehicles together.”
https://launchforth.io/explore/
• 100xs lower capital cost
• 5xs faster productionhttps://launchforth.io/explore/
49. • 100xs lower capital cost
“Local Motors is the place for people to create
influential vehicles together.”
50. Olli - 3D printed autonomous vehicle
with IBM Watson
https://www.3dprintingbusiness.directory/news/local-motors-prepares-serial-production-ollie-3d-printed-smart-vehicles/
From 25-30,000 parts to 50 partsFrom 25-30,000 parts to 50 parts
51. Integrating offline and online communities
in local and mobile factories
Arizona
Maryland
Tennessee
Germany
59. Gigging and Entrepreneuring
in co-living/co-working spaces
As a member of TechFarm you will have access to all houses in the network. Imagine
being a remote worker and hang out in Hong Kong for 2 months, Bali for 4 monts,
Stockholm for 6 months, and have a sense of community and home in all places.
64. All jobs have been created within non-routine
Food service
Housekeeper
Programmers
Data scientist
Admin Assistant
Manufacturing
65. Jobs that did not exist in 2006
• App developer
• Social media manager
• Uber/Lyft driver
• Driverless car engineer
• Cloud computing specialist
• Big data analyst/data scientist
• Sustainability manager
• YouTube content creators
• Drone operators
• Millennial generational expert
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/10-jobs-that-didn-t-exist-10-years-ago/
66. •Major retailers in USA closed down more than 5000
stores in 2017 and plan to close >1000 stores in 2018
•20-25% of USA malls to close within 5 years
http://clark.com/shopping-retail/major-retailers-closing-2017/US
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/04/retail-jobs-decline-as-amazons-robot-army-grows.html
Retail and supporting mall jobs hit hard in USA
68. The Blockchain is the glue that is going to drive a
productivity revolution across the globe on par with
what Henry Ford did with the automobile.
— Paul Brody, Americas Strategy Leader,
Technology Sector, Ernst & Young
69. Cognitive Manual
Routine
Non-routine
Predicted
Automation
Rate
64-69%
Predicted Automation Rate
<20%
Future Skills in Demand
• Creativity
• Complex problem solving
• Generating new patterns
• Coordinating others
• Negotiating
• Emotional intelligence
Predicted
Automation
Rate
81%
Predicted Automation Rate
26%
Future Skills in Demand
• Fine and gross motor skills
• Mobility
• Natural language processing
• Navigation
• Sensory perception
• Social and emotional capabilities
van der Zande et al., 2018
71. Primary Required Capabilities
Gross and fine motor skills
Sensory perception
Mobility to some extent
Sample Tasks
Assembling
Picking and sorting
Welding
Cooking
Predicted Substitution Rate: 81%*
Primary Required Capabilities
Fine and gross motor skills Mobility
Natural language processing Navigation
Sensory perception
Social and emotional capabilities
Sample Tasks
Plumbing and electrician
Assisting with surgery
Janitorial work
Dog walking
Predicted Substitution Rate: 26%*
Cognitive Manual
Routine
Non-routine
Primary Required Capabilities
Retrieving information
Recognizing known patterns
Optimizing and planning
Logical reasoning/problem solving
Natural language processing
Sample Tasks
Data processing, e.g., calculating, bookkeeping
Customer service, e.g., cashiers, tel operators, bank tellers
Predicted Substitution Rate: 64-69%*
Primary Required Capabilities
Creativity Complex problem solving
Generating novel patterns Coordinating others
Social and emotional capabilities
Sample Tasks
Legal writing
Negotiating
Teaching
Diagnosing diseases
Predicted Substitution Rate: <20%*
Capability mapping onto the 2x2 job matrix
van der Zande et al., 2018
76. All our knowledge is about the past, but all
our strategic decisions are about the future
What we don’t know
we don’t know
about the future What we
know
What we know
we don’t know
Conway 2003
77. What will determine success?
• Lifelong learning
• Experience (Mastery)
• Money
• Networks
92. Design your social networks
1. Build relationships across diverse networks
2. Ask “What if?” and challenge basic assumptions
3. Go from “Problem Solver” -> “Solution Finder”
4. Ensure access to resources, not ownership
Boundary
spanner
93. “We always overestimate the change that will
occur in the next two years and underestimate
the change that will occur in the next ten.”
- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1996
Scenario
Thinking