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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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·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

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·Jul 3

A Research Compass: Platform-Ecosystem Thinking in 2023

Emerging research questions at Boundaryless — by Simone Cicero, Emanuele Quintarelli, Luca Ruggeri and Stina Heikkilä Abstract Summer breaks are always good moments to reflect, take some time to breathe, and start afresh with new directions. …

Platform Design

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A Research Compass: Platform-Ecosystem Thinking in 2023
A Research Compass: Platform-Ecosystem Thinking in 2023
Platform Design

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·Jun 21

The Key Concepts in Platform Design

Discover essential platform design concepts with this comprehensive overview — Introduction As we mark the tenth year of our exploration into the realm of platform design, it is an opportune moment to consolidate and share a library of the key concepts of platform design that have emerged from this journey. As a side effect, this also contains a comprehensive guide, a…

Innovation

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The Key Concepts in Platform Design
The Key Concepts in Platform Design
Innovation

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·Jun 8

The Key Promises of Organizational Unbundling

Embracing Market-Based Organizational Models in the Product-Centric Era — The Second article of a series on Organizational Unbundling by Simone Cicero and Emanuele Quintarelli — from Boundaryless (check 1) In an era of rapid change and transformation, the traditional, hierarchical structures of organizations are continually being challenged. The monolithic, hierarchical models that have historically dominated the corporate world are…

Organization Design

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The Key Promises of Organizational Unbundling
The Key Promises of Organizational Unbundling
Organization Design

14 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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