Digital Platform Economy
Course will address enablers of digitalisation, convergence, commoditisation, consumerisation (of IT), democratisation, disaggregation, disintermediation, power of digital aggregators and intermediators, specialisation, lowering entry barriers, servitisation, datafication, mobility, social media. Platforms, platform economy, network effects, boundary resources and how they are used, governance of platforms, digital boost to platforms.
Schedule:
–
Teaching time:
Self-paced
Location:
Online
Topic:
Information and communications technology
Form of learning:
Online
Provider:
Aalto University, FITech
Level:
Intermediate
Credits:
2 By Aalto University (ECTS)
Fee:
Free of charge
Course description
Course content
Enablers of digitalisation, convergence, commoditisation, consumerisation (of IT), democratisation, disaggregation, disintermediation, power of digital aggregators and intermediators, specialisation, lowering entry barriers, servitisation, datafication, mobility, social media. Platforms, platform economy, network effects, boundary resources and how they are used, governance of platforms, digital boost to platforms.
After completing the course the student
- has a high-level understanding of the scale, scope, and speed of the disruption and destruction that digitalisation is having on firms, industries and societies, and technological enablers that are driving the change.
- can describe the changes that digitalisation brings at the level of industry structures and power, market dynamics and value chains.
- is also able to describe the main characteristics of (multisided) platforms and platform economy, why platform economy is different to traditional business and the significance on platforms for the economy at large.
