Success Factors of Digital Platform Design

Digital platforms disrupt today’s industries with novel offers and business models. Despite their revolutionizing impact, over 80% of fail. To better understand what differentiates failing from successful platforms, we identified 30 platform success factors. These range corporate value integration, where the strategy gets defined platform’s definition, to architecture covering all essential IT considerations best practices making, e.g., innovation personalization possible. make these factors usable in practice, integrated into wellestablished Business Model Canvas (BMC) widely adopted for model design. This method was chosen test applicability usefulness a used vehicle thus ease our workshop study. The are promising, as demonstrated