Strapla Consulting is a long-term advisor to CEOs and boards of small to medium enterprises and startups on building and transforming the disruptive business models for hyper growth. Our team of qualified seasoned professionals are in the know of building the multi-sided marketplaces, communities and ecosystems efficiently. Our mid-market enterprise clients leverage our disruptive strategic advisory services in turning around their traditional pipeline businesses and linear products into successful platforms which consistently create value to all the stakeholders of the ecosystem thereby accelerating the overall valuation.
Why Platforms?
8 out of top 10 biggest enterprises worldwide are platform businesses. Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SAP are all platforms. In platform businesses the real value is created by harnessing the Consumer and Producer interactions and the marketing is external to the core offering. Traditional businesses rely on features to be sold via internal marketing strategies and the value creation is also linear (single consumer-producer deriving value in silos). Platforms derive word of mouth marketing exponentially and are generally considered as Modern Monopolies where the Winner Takes All the market-share. Gain a detailed understanding of Platform definition here.
Retained Platform Advisory
In Retained Platform Advisory our clients get sharp consultative advise in the form of answer to the following questions:
“How to create a successful Platform Business Model from scratch?”
“What is adequate for an MVP (Minimum Viable Platform?”
“How to design, launch, monetize, govern a modern marketplace which can eventually become a modern monopoly?”
“How to transform an existing ‘Product’ into a ‘Platform’ which leverages Network Effects for hyper-growth?”
We provide guaranteed bespoke office hours of our experts who are spread across the world to provide strategic guidance as you build your platform business.
We are more than just a consulting firm which delivers expensive slide decks and complicated spreadsheets. Our retained consultants integrate with your leadership team in co-creating the successful platform constituents. Our deliverables rely on defining the latent underpinnings of an ecosystem design from prototype to launch. Successful platforms also approach us in finding the right diversification strategy for building the secondary ecosystems within the provider and consumer communities. As platforms grow, they transform their own structure which poses its own orchestration challenges. Existing platforms seek our Platform Advisory Services for defining the new ecosystems and marketplaces within the existing realm of a modern monopoly for even greater value creation.
Reach out to get Retained Platform Advisory services.
Minimum Viable Platform
We like to call MVP as Minimum Viable Platform because in the modern businesses linear value creation by building just a product does not make enough sense.
Our clients find it extremely helpful to gain insights during the Ideation to Prototyping journey by identifying the threats to the core business and determining the platform business opportunity swiftly before the competition catches up. Since in platform business model winner usually takes all the business opportunities thereby killing the competition- agility is the key. Indemnifying the business risks by becoming the first mover still has its advantages.
Defining the business opportunity, validating the business model, creating the long-tailed monetization strategy, and eventually determining the overall business valuation and eventually creating a prototype discreetly for launch are some of the key aspects we assist our clients in.
Reach out to get Minimum Viable Platform services.
Platform Ecosystem Designing
Our platform ecosystem designing experts and research consultants align with our client’s C-suite and leadership team in co-creating the ideal ecosystem from scratch. This is usually a very intense process wherein we blend the ecosystem designing conceptual aspects along with the practical case solutioning in an OKR approach. We integrate with our client teams, partner with the potential ecosystem incumbents (by abstracting the client’s name) to identify the frictions in the market opportunity. We gather the required due diligence on client’s behalf to successfully validate and revalidate MVP. We assist in creating the prototype with the core transaction which is the building block for any ecosystem or a marketplace.
We also determine the essential platform design elements of the client’s landscape like:
“Who should be subsidized (consumer or provider)?”,
“What should be the monetization strategy?”,
“How to launch?”,
“Whom to partner with and when?”,
“How to create a holistic platform governance model for your modern monopoly?”,
“What should be the engagement model?” and
“How to orchestrate the overall system?”
Reach out to get your overall playbook for building the next winning and modern monopoly.
Strapla Consulting is a long-term advisor to CEOs and boards of small to medium enterprises and startups on building and transforming the disruptive business models for hyper growth. Our team of qualified seasoned professionals are in the know of building the multi-sided marketplaces, communities and ecosystems efficiently. Our mid-market enterprise clients leverage our disruptive strategic advisory services in turning around their traditional pipeline businesses and linear products into successful platforms which consistently create value to all the stakeholders of the ecosystem thereby accelerating the overall valuation.
Why Platforms?
8 out of top 10 biggest enterprises worldwide are platform businesses. Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SAP are all platforms. In platform businesses the real value is created by harnessing the Consumer and Producer interactions and the marketing is external to the core offering. Traditional businesses rely on features to be sold via internal marketing strategies and the value creation is also linear (single consumer-producer deriving value in silos). Platforms derive word of mouth marketing exponentially and are generally considered as Modern Monopolies where the Winner Takes All the market-share. Gain a detailed understanding of Platform definition here.
In Retained Platform Advisory our clients get sharp consultative advise in the form of answer to the following questions:
- How to create a successful Platform Business Model from scratch?
- What is adequate for an MVP (Minimum Viable Platform?
- How to design, launch, monetize, govern a modern marketplace which can eventually become a modern monopoly?
- How to transform an existing ‘Product’ into a ‘Platform’ which leverages Network Effects for hyper-growth?
We provide guaranteed bespoke office hours of our experts who are spread across the world to provide strategic guidance as you build your platform business.
We are more than just a consulting firm which delivers expensive slide decks and complicated spreadsheets. Our retained consultants integrate with your leadership team in co-creating the successful platform constituents. Our deliverables rely on defining the latent underpinnings of an ecosystem design from prototype to launch. Successful platforms also approach us in finding the right diversification strategy for building the secondary ecosystems within the provider and consumer communities. As platforms grow, they transform their own structure which poses its own orchestration challenges. Existing platforms seek our Platform Advisory Services for defining the new ecosystems and marketplaces within the existing realm of a modern monopoly for even greater value creation.
We like to call MVP as Minimum Viable Platform because in the modern businesses linear value creation by building just a product does not make enough sense.
Our clients find it extremely helpful to gain insights during the Ideation to Prototyping journey by identifying the threats to the core business and determining the platform business opportunity swiftly before the competition catches up. Since in platform business model winner usually takes all the business opportunities thereby killing the competition- agility is the key. Indemnifying the business risks by becoming the first mover still has its advantages.
Defining the business opportunity, validating the business model, creating the long-tailed monetization strategy, and eventually determining the overall business valuation and eventually creating a prototype discreetly for launch are some of the key aspects we assist our clients in.
Our platform ecosystem designing experts and research consultants align with our client’s C-suite and leadership team in co-creating the ideal ecosystem from scratch. This is usually a very intense process wherein we blend the ecosystem designing conceptual aspects along with the practical case solutioning in an OKR approach. We integrate with our client teams, partner with the potential ecosystem incumbents (by abstracting the client’s name) to identify the frictions in the market opportunity. We gather the required due diligence on client’s behalf to successfully validate and revalidate MVP. We assist in creating the prototype with the core transaction which is the building block for any ecosystem or a marketplace.
We also determine the essential platform design elements of the client’s landscape like:
- Who should be subsidized (consumer or provider)?
- What should be the monetization strategy?
- How to launch?
- Whom to partner with and when?
- How to create a holistic platform governance model for your modern monopoly?
- What should be the engagement model?
- How to orchestrate the overall system?