Digital platform economy
This course will present the impact and changes that digitalisation will bring to companies, industries and societies. The topics covered on this course are for example the enablers of digitalisation, consumerisation, platforms, governance and digital boost to platforms and platform economy.
Schedule:
–
Teaching time:
Self-paced
Topic:
Digitalisation
Form of learning:
Online
Provider:
Aalto University, FITech
Level:
Intermediate
Credits:
2 By Aalto University (ECTS)
Fee:
€ 0.00
Application period:
1.6.2023
– 15.10.2023
Target group and prerequisites
No prerequisitesCourse 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.
Completion methods
The course is online and self-paced.