Winning Through Platforms: How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One (American Marketing Association)

Winning through Platforms achieved #1 bestseller status, and is a Best Business Book Awards winner for 2024. It is your new go-to guide for modern competitive advantage.

Digital platforms are no longer for just the tech elite. They’re spreading to every company and industry, powered by the growth of customer sensors, streaming data, and artificial intelligence—lighting the valuable customer Use journey that was formerly dark.

How will you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? Three senior advisers to the world’s leading technology companies reveal how to win through platforms when every competitor has one.

Winning Through Platforms decodes growth moves from a decade of platform competition, communicates them through a platform playbook. It’s a treasure trove of 24 proven platform strategies—such as customer coalition design, in-use enrichment, AI branding, and much more. These playbook strategies are delivered through engaging stories of over 50 companies, plus proprietary frameworks and workshop-style questions that lead you to act.

This game-changing playbook will teach you how to:

• Revitalize your business through strategic use of platforms
• Design platforms that are compelling to customers and hard for competitors to match
• Accelerate in-market growth through brand-and-demand excellence that spans your customer’s entire platform journey
• Innovate in high-impact benefit areas to differentiate your platform
• Elevate your customer’s personal platform experience
• Transform your enterprise and operations to drive superior performance

Every CEO, innovator, go-to-market leader, and aspiring professional will gain valuable insight through this book. Whether your company is just starting on its first platform journey or is a born platform disruptor, this book will transform your ability to win.

Learn the platform playbook. Find and apply your plays.

This book forms part of the American Marketing Association (AMA) leadership series.

Ted Moser is a Senior Partner at Prophet Consulting, helping senior executives to grow their company’s value by anticipating and acting on market disruptions.

David Aaker is widely considered the father of modern branding. His pioneering work focused on defining brand equity and detailed ways to build and manage brands and portfolios. He has published more than 100 articles and 18 books on the theory and practice of marketing—including eight on branding—that have sold more 1 million copies and were translated into 18 languages.

Ted Moser is a Senior Partner at Prophet, a growth and transformation consultancy, where he helps category-leading digital platform clients to anticipate market evolution, craft distinctive value growth strategies, and realize their ambitions. Ted’s client work spans innovation, branding, go to market excellence, and operating model transformation. A Wharton School MBA with highest honors in Strategy and Marketing, he previously co-authored Profit Patterns with Adrian Slywotziky to identify how profit pools shift with Internet business model innovation. He is a decades-long digital innovator for global financial inclusion.

Charlotte Bloom is the CEO of VSNRY, a strategic consulting firm, where she works with visionary leaders to identify and bring to market industry-defining business strategies and innovations. Her clients have successfully launched new businesses, pivoted to more lucrative business models, been acquired and IPO’d. She is an advocate for women and ally to businesses that make the world a better place.

Omar Akhtar conducts research and advises companies on best practices in data, technology and go-to-market excellence. His research publications include digital practice benchmarks, maturity models, guides for developing strategies, and frameworks for evaluating people, processes, and technologies.