To create an impactful and successful platform business it requires to align four perspectives. User needs with your solution (problem-platform fit), the market (market-platform fit), business (business-platform fit) and your capabilities (capabilities-platform fit). Our innovative double loop model helps you to align those perspectives in the exploration and the scale-up phase.
Since 2012 we continuously improve our toolset. Today, the PIK 5 core set consists of >25 canvases including the original “Platform Business Model Canvas”, the Value Network Canvas and other deep-dive visual tools. For example for monetization, Platform Service Design, Architecture, roadmapping, Network effects and so on. For each key questions we developed visual tools and guides helping entrepreneurs around the world.
Very often teams are using multiple frameworks and tools like Design Thinking or the original Business Model Canvas for ideation. But those tools are lacking the capabilities to transfer and support a venture project into the scale-up phase. This leads to inconsistencies and very often misunderstandings. The PIK is designed to support all life stages of a platform venture – from exploration to scale – making it the most comprehensive toolset available.
Platforms are very powerful and disrupted each industry. But they also created a lot of damage to society. At the same time we face big challenges like climate change and pandemics. We strongly believe that in the future each business should be build with a positive impact to Profit, People and Planet – the so called triple bottom-line. Therefore we incorporated sustainability aspects into the tools, so that you create a positive impact platform business by design.
To create an impactful and successful platform business it requires to align four perspectives. User needs with your solution (problem-platform fit), the market (market-platform fit), business (business-platform fit) and your capabilities (capabilities-platform fit). Our innovative double loop model helps you to align those perspectives in the exploration and the scale-up phase.
Enabling organizations is key to ensure they are building up the required skills to execute a platform strategy. Therefore we created a perfect learning experience with our live masterclasses and on-demand courses incl. CEOs and Founders of platforms as speakers. Giving you practical insights and tipps – not just theory.
Very often corporates lack the right understanding of platforms and what the impact or potential they can have. In our workshops and engagements we help you to explore the opportunities and make the right build / buy / partner / join decisions to ensure future growth and positioning in future ecosystems.
We are serial entrepreneurs and proven tech-founders. We love to build new businesses based on network effects. In the last 20 years we have gained experience on creating different types of platforms in multiple industries. Today, we are one of the leading platform venture builders co-creating new platforms with our corporate clients. If you want to explore and scale a successful platform and you lack the right talent, just let us know.
Since 2012 we support with our tools the adoption of platform thinking worldwide. Today, we are host of one of the biggest communities of interest regarding platform thinking and platform building worldwide. Supported by a fine and hand-picked ambassador community we enable knowledge exchange and best practice sharing.