Platform Strategy

April 18 - May 3, 2022

Instructor: TBD

Teaching Assistants: To be announced

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📜 Course Overview

The Section4 Platform Sprint is a two-week intensive course where you’ll learn the strategies needed to build platform markets, unlocking incredible stakeholder value. This course unpacks the Platform Evolution Framework, Professor Sawhney's proprietary five-stage model for designing, launching, monetizing, and competing in a platform economy. Whether you're a product company looking to become more like or compete against a platform, or a platform company looking to position yourself in a competitive market, this course is essential to drive growth within your firm.

✏️ Course Objectives

By the end of this sprint, you'll know:

• The strategies that drive value at today’s most valuable platform companies
• How to apply these strategies to identify opportunities to create, compete with, become more like, and disrupt platform markets
• How to assess your business's capacity to evolve into a platform market or strengthen its market position

📚 Course Materials

Note: You’ll receive access to the below the week before the sprint

• Sprint Center: This is your home base for all content including modules, lessons, case studies, livestream links/recordings, and project instructions. (Access on Wednesday 4/13)
• Slack: Discuss sprint content, meet your cohort/section, and work through your project. You will receive an email invitation to sign up for Slack. (Access on Friday 4/15)
• Sprint Workbook: Use this workbook to complete your homework (reflection questions) after each module.

💬 Course Participation

This is an intensive course, designed for you to engage actively with course material and put your learnings into action. Students who get the most out of this sprint are those who engage and participate with the community. This includes:

• Discussing sprint learnings and takeaways, and replying to other students via Slack in your #section channels.