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Weighing the Impact of Web 3 Protocols on Platforms

Exploring the inherent shortcomings and potential of protocols in the current market context — Editor’s note*: This post has been written following a provocation by Venkatesh Rao in the frame of my contribution as a guest lecturer at the Summer of Protocol program. Furthermore, many of the elements of the past have emerged following conversations with Justice Gödel Conder that also provided a review.

Business

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Weighing the Impact of Web 3 Protocols on Platforms
Weighing the Impact of Web 3 Protocols on Platforms
Business

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The Trilemma of Organizational Unbundling

Autonomy, Adaptability, and Coherence — The first article of a series on Organizational Unbundling by Simone Cicero and Emanuele Quintarelli — from Boundaryless Abstract In this article, we explain what organizational unbundling is and why it is key for the future of organizations. We also clarify that although we’d like to have organizations that are highly…

Organization Design

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The Trilemma of Organizational Unbundling
The Trilemma of Organizational Unbundling
Organization Design

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Key Concepts and Practical steps to your first Growth Model (for a Platform or Product)

An illustration, a template, and a video explainer — Abstract Creating a growth model is essential for today’s digital businesses. Despite this being an essential and incredibly powerful concept, especially for early-stage startups, in our practice with teams we’ve often seen them failing to have a consolidated view of their growth in one single place. Therefore, we made a quick…

Strategy

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Key Concepts and Practical steps to your first Growth Model (for a Platform or Product)
Key Concepts and Practical steps to your first Growth Model (for a Platform or Product)
Strategy

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Why Building a Visual Product Portfolio and creating shared Innovation Practices is essential for adaptive companies

Abstract Our most ambitious and successful clients are the ones that not only do focus on bringing a single innovation initiative to the market with a structured, validation-oriented, platform design approach but the ones that recognize the need to look at their organization, capabilities, and strategies from a portfolio and systems…

Organization Design

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Why Building a Visual Product Portfolio
Why Building a Visual Product Portfolio
Organization Design

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Designing Extendable Platforms

Protocols, no-code, AI, and modularity — Abstract The topic of designing and developing extension platforms strategies around products is heavily underrepresented in the conversation around digital product strategies and design. While there’s a lot that has been said and done about building marketplaces much less has surfaced about ways that companies can adopt to build third-party ecosystems…

Platform Design

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Designing Extendable Platforms
Designing Extendable Platforms
Platform Design

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Value Propositions in Business Ecosystems — Products, Marketplaces, Extensions

What are the key value propositions in business ecosystems? How does a product or service bundle complement a marketplace? How can we mobilize developers to create extensions to the product? — Abstract In this installment of the Platform-Ecosystem Atlas series, we’ll give a first framework to cover the most common value propositions that can be brought to market in the context of low transaction cost, digitally enabled, networked ecosystems. Subscribe to our newsletter if you don’t want to miss a thing!

Innovation

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Value Propositions in Business Ecosystems — Products, Marketplaces, Extensions
Value Propositions in Business Ecosystems — Products, Marketplaces, Extensions
Innovation

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·Nov 23

Reinventing your Organization through a Market-Driven Lens

An Experimental Approach — Explore an adaptive approach to organizational transformation with our article on market context mapping and arena scanning. Discover how to use Wardley Maps for strategic rebundling, optimizing market reach, and enhancing your competitive edge. Harness the power of ecosystem scans and value chains for effective business adaptation in fluid market…

Organization Design

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Reinventing your Organization through a Market-Driven Lens
Reinventing your Organization through a Market-Driven Lens
Organization Design

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·Oct 27

Multi-Product Portfolios: Creating Bundles and DIY Platforms

How do you make it easy for customers to buy and compose the products and services they want? — How do you set the rules and constraints regulating how teams build products in your product portfolio? And how do you define the directions along which your products suites should “bundle” and integrate? In short: it needs to be a mix of user-driven, ecosystem-driven inspiration — based on your customer…

Product

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Multi-Product Portfolios: Creating Bundles and DIY Platforms
Multi-Product Portfolios: Creating Bundles and DIY Platforms
Product

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·Oct 18

How Taxonomies help achieve Coherence & Composability in Products/Services Portfolios

Build Multiple coherent Products within an Organization — NOTE THAT: 👉 This post is a re-publication of an original posted on our blog, check the original here. Subscribe here: https://boundaryless.io/newsletter_subscription_page/ In this article we explain the important role that product taxonomies play in conveying the different value propositions in a product portfolio to customers, and in facilitating the distribution of target outcomes internally, across teams and product divisions and we introduce a few approaches, and heuristics on…

Organization Design

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How Taxonomies help achieve Coherence & Composability in Products/Services Portfolios
How Taxonomies help achieve Coherence & Composability in Products/Services Portfolios
Organization Design

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·Sep 13

Shifting to an Organizational Unbundling Model: When and Why

The Scenarios of Organizational Unbundling — The Second article of a series on Organizational Unbundling by Simone Cicero adn Emanuele Quintarelli from Boundaryless (check 1 and 2) It’s been a few months since we introduced an essential concept — that of Organizational Unbundling — in our writings, and more generally, in our work. With organizational unbundling…

Desing

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Shifting to an Organizational Unbundling Model: When and Why
Shifting to an Organizational Unbundling Model: When and Why
Desing

11 min read

Simone Cicero

Simone Cicero

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Building the ecosystemic society. Creator of Platform Design Toolkit. www.boundaryless.io CEO Thinkers50 Radar 2020

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