Leverage Economies of Scale to Grow Your Platform Business

The marketplace has experienced a remarkable shift with the rise of digital platforms—business models that use online infrastructure to facilitate interactions between groups. Data from Persistence Market Research estimates the digital platform market to grow from $9 billion in 2023 to $19 billion by the end of 2030.

Yet, after transitioning to a platform business model comes a crucial step: scaling.

If you’re struggling to build your platform business, here's an overview of how to use economies of scale to achieve long-term growth.

Is Productivity Hurting Your Creativity?

Is productivity hurting your creativity at your business?  Just Look at Taylor Swift.  The internet thinks some tracks on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sound unoriginal.

Is creativity dead? Can it be saved?  Find out here. 

Rewire Your Decision-Making

CEO and Presidents are used to making tough decisions under fire. That’s why they’re CEOs or Presidents.

But the unprecedented pressures facing today’s executives—specifically, climate change, novel tech such as AI, and social and economic disruption—are presenting leaders with stark choices about how their company makes money and creates value.

Unfortunately, that reinvention pressure can quickly expose subpar decision-making habits. When CEOs were asked about the extent to which they’ve adopted a series of proven decision-making best practices, the results showed that there’s considerable progress to be made.

Find out why here with this in-depth analysis.  Being a better decider can help leaders forge a path to the kinds of breakthrough ideas that can set in motion meaningful reinvention.

Let's Talk Fitness!

Whether you're a power walker, a lifter, a Pilates queen, or all of the above, we've got you.  As a woman president, you must stay in shape to keep up with the demands of running a successful business.  Here are a plethora of options – guides – to make that happen. 

Reasons to Celebrate Successes

Indeed, landing a big contract with a client marks the beginning of a new process rather than the pure culmination of work. Plus, even when there is an unambiguous success, there are often 12 other projects going on that need attention. 

Nonetheless, there are some good reasons to celebrate successes. Here are a few things you can do.

Small celebrations help you recognize how all the little things you do daily add up to something more significant.

More Delightful Pictures From the 22nd Annual WPO Chicago Summit 9/11/25

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More information about the 22nd Annual WPO Chicago Summit – topic, speakers, moderators and host – can be found here.

22 Years Strong: WPO Chicago Annual Summit 2025 a Grand Success!

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This is "us" – Women Presidents Organization Chicago strong.  A grand success at our 22nd Annual WPO Chicago Summit 9/11/25.

The Summit took a clear-eyed look at the forces shaping business today and tomorrow. From the broader state of the economy to the evolving role of tariffs, interest rates, inflation, and the Federal Reserve, we’ll examine the questions that matter most to business leaders. Are current policies pushing us toward recession—or resilience?  How might rate decisions in 2025 and beyond affect growth? And what happens if politics enters the Fed’s decision-making? Join us for an engaging discussion on what lies ahead and how you can prepare for it.

Panelists discussed:

• A macro view of the state of the economy.
• Where we stand with tariff changes and policies and the impact on business owners.
• Where interest rates will settle in 2025.
• What happens if the Federal Reserve becomes politicized.
• Whether the U.S. dollar strengthens or weakens in 2025.
• What impact the firing of the BLS Administrator has on economic data.
• What if the next equity drawdown is inflation-led, not growth-led?
• How a business owner can survive or even thrive during economic turmoil.

It was a thought-provoking, engaging and informative program. 

Thank you to Foley & Lardner LLP for hosting us.  Shout out to Ellen Wheeler and Lauren Loew – WPO Chicago members and each respective partners at Foley. 

Big thank you to Lisa A. Byrne, MBA, Senior Vice President | Financial Advisor, Portfolio Director Group, RBC Wealth Management and Rachel D. Irons, CFP®, ChFC®, Senior Vice President – Wealth Management, Financial Advisor, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, UBS for moderating our panel discussion on "Navigating the Unknown: Economic Strategies for Women CEOs."

And to the panelists – Kristin Roesch, Vice President Blackstone Investment Strategy; Charlotte Noels, Vice President Blackstone Private Wealth; Scott Becker, CFA, Calamos, Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Specialists; and Katrina Schmaltz, CFA®, CPA, Managing Director, Portfolio Strategist, Nuveen – thank you for sharing your expertise with us.

See you at our 23rd Annual Summit in 2026!