While not necessary, it may be helpful to understand the platform economy in context of a larger shift with several components including:

Intelligent Automation: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) will provide massive amounts of data and new ways to manipulate that data into new ways of thinking and production.

Liquide Workforce: is really at the heart of the "digital revolution" and covers the way we work from the gig economy to temporary / revolving workers and remote, distributed, but connected teams as the new normal.

Predictable Disruption: covers the need -- now more than ever before -- to look forward and have line of sight on growing ecosystems (based on the Platform Economy) and be able to anticipate their impact on business.

Digital Trust: All of these changes will require new technical infrastructure -- largely led by blockchain today -- to support our growing reliance on technology in all aspects of work.

To dive deeper into any of these topics, this is a great starting place.