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Effective Platform Product Management

You're reading from   Effective Platform Product Management An effortless strategy and execution guide for product managers who want to scale their platform business model and grow their customer base

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811354
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Building the Right Strategy for the Platform Business Model
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Platform Business Models FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Differences between Linear Products and Platforms 4. Chapter 3: Research and Validation 5. Chapter 4: Building a Platform Strategy 6. Section 2: Building the Platform
7. Chapter 5: Defining the MVP and Creating a Platform Roadmap 8. Chapter 6: Launching the Platform 9. Chapter 7: Creating a Platform Operating Model 10. Section 3: Measuring the Performance of the Platform
11. Chapter 8: Metrics to Measure the Platform Outcome 12. Chapter 9:Ongoing Backlog Prioritization 13. Chapter 10: Moving from Linear Products to Platforms 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining targets

After defining the metrics, it is important to assign targets to each metric so that they can be measured against those targets. Defining targets for any metrics is a two-step process, let's look at those steps in detail:

  1. Determining the end result: First, start by defining the desired result for the platform. Here, the desired result could be a mid-to-long-term business outcome, for example, reaching the break-even point in 3 years or achieving 10% gross profit by the end of year 2. Once we know the outcome we want to reach, identify the associated metrics, such as X number of consumers in 3 years with an average Y number of transactions each year, with a Z amount of value per transaction. To serve the X number of consumers, we should onboard the number of producers. Ascertaining the associated metrics also helps us define the desired results of each metric, such as in this example, X number of consumers and number of producers in 3 years.
  2. Working...
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