Four Tactics for Implementing a Balanced Digital Platform Strategy
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MIS Quarterly Executive, Volume 19, issue 2, pp. 105-120
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Digital platforms, such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, face two major challenges in maintaining their competitive positions. First, the ever-increasing variety of thirdparty apps risks fragmenting a platform and requires the platform owner to use controls to maintain platform unity. Second, a too-open approach may invite competitors to exploit a platform. A balanced digital platform strategy requires a platform owner to deploy four tactics—leverage, control, exploit, and defense—to make the necessary trade-offs between variety and unity, and open and closed.Description
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Karhu, K, Gustafsson, R, Eaton, B, Henfridsson, O & Sørensen, C 2020, 'Four Tactics for Implementing a Balanced Digital Platform Strategy', MIS Quarterly Executive, vol. 19, no. 2, 4, pp. 105-120. https://doi.org/10.17705/2msqe.00027