Online Course – Platform Thinking: Certified Professional Specialization in Innovation in the Era of Digital Business Models from Politecnico di Milano

Upgrade your business with advanced platforms. Learn platform models to drive innovation and seize business opportunities.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Business Transformation
  • Innovation consciousness
  • Data-driven innovation
  • Innovation in business models
  • Digital transformation

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Innovation Manager
  • Product key
  • Technology Project Manager
  • Startup Manager
  • Strategic Platform Consultant
  • Artificial Intelligence Expert
  • Digital Transformation Manager
  • Platform Business Developer
  • Digital Marketing Manager
  • Business Development Manager

Internship – 4-part course series

This internship is for innovation enthusiasts who are interested in developing a deep understanding of platform models. We are surrounded by platforms, but we often don’t understand how they differ from traditional organizations in creating and capturing value.

Through 4 courses, you will learn how to leverage platforms to drive innovation, launch a startup, or develop new products or services in existing companies. In doing so, you will develop a way of thinking relevant to the fast-paced times we live in.

Technologies like the metaverse, creative artificial intelligence, and other revolutionary technologies are challenging our businesses and our daily lives as we know them… Platform thinking will help us meet these challenges!

Applied Learning Project

Through the final project, learners will have the opportunity to apply platform thinking to a real startup company.

The last exercise offers an opportunity to develop an innovation roadmap based on platform principles to promote digital transformation that is enabled by platform mechanisms.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Platform Thinking: What’s Beyond Uber?

Course 1

  • 5 hours
  • 4.8 (59 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn:
  • Understand the impact platforms have on our daily lives
  • Identify the main types of platforms in the business world
  • Evaluate the evolution of the concept of platforms over time in the world of management
  • Apply the key logics of “platform thinking” to existing platforms to see their innovative power
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Business Change
  • Category: Digital Media
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Business Design
  • Category: Innovation

Platform Thinking: Platform Design

Course 2

  • 6 hours
  • 4.8 (15 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn:
  • Understand the key variables in designing a successful and meaningful platform
  • Evaluate the key strategies for driving a platform
  • Assess the key variables for managing platform growth
  • Apply the key logics of “platform thinking” to existing businesses to promote innovation
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Business Change
  • Category: Digital Media
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Business Design
  • Category: Innovation

Platform Thinking: Utilizing Data Through Platforms

Course 3

  • 4 hours
  • 4.9 (14 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn:
  • Understand the role of data in the sustainability of digital business models
  • Evaluate different strategies for capturing value from data
  • Analyze your business environment to identify potential for a data-driven platform revolution
  • Analyze available data to implement platform thinking
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Business Change
  • Category: Digital Media
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Business Design
  • Category: Innovation

Platform Thinking for the Metalverse

Course 4

  • 5 hours
  • 4.9 (10 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn:
  • Understand the role of digital technologies in enabling platform models
  • Evaluate different strategies to deal with technological evolution
  • Analyze previous technology cycles to learn from them and prepare to respond to the future
  • Evaluate innovative opportunities, through platforms, driven by technological evolution
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Business Change
  • Category: Digital Media
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Business Design
  • Category: Innovation