A primer in understanding all the dimensions of the pricing problem and opportunity in Marketplace-platforms by Simone Cicero and Manfredi Sassoli de Bianchi — This fifth research update on the emerging landscape of growth in platforms and marketplaces is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. This essay presents all the elements of a platform strategy and their relationship to pricing, we cover the take-rate —…

Framing the new growth landscape for growth, network effects dependent Value Propositions by Simone Cicero and Manfredi Sassoli de Bianchi — This first research update on the emerging landscape of growth in platforms and marketplaces is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. This essay presents the first framing of an upcoming integration to the Platform Design Toolkit: a new Guide and a…

Unbundling and Re-bundling as the world changes — This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. All the links you’ll find in this post were previously mentioned in it, so … subscribe! This end of the year blog post provides a — always very much acclaimed by our…

by Simone Cicero and Emanuele Quintarelli This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter and it’s part of a new series on most innovative organizations of the 21C called EEEO Conversations. As the loyal readers will certainly know, in the…

A systematic overview of the driver of adopting web 3 enablers in designing a new product, and a framework for helping teams understand challenges and needs — Abstract In the last few months at Boundaryless we’ve been helping teams considering and implementing complex products and go to market strategies that in some cases have regarded the adoption of a web3 strategy. The exploration of the potential of a web3 strategy — including for example the release of a…

Fill out the following community survey and help us make the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast better and more sustainable — Dear Community, at Boundaryless we are soon about to launch the 4th season of the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast. Before doing so, we would like to explore with our community the value you perceive from the podcast, how to improve it and how to make it more sustainable on our side. We’re proud…

And how this impacts organizations — Abstract Understanding how markets are increasingly being shaped by composability is definitely a hot topic today. It was not later than September last year that Gartner published the “Becoming Composable: A Gartner Trend Insight” report and platform thinking legend and Boundaryless’ friend Sangeet Choudary recently came up with his “Building Blocks…

Ever more often than not, we’re asked to help founders and designers address lagging growth issues. — This is because — differently from what happened in the first years of activity of Boundaryless — many more adopters (and customers) have now performed the first steps of drafting a platform strategy, prototyping it, getting some validation from the market and are now encountering their hurdles with product traction…

After a fairly long action-research process we are finally able to release the first stable version of our Platform Growth and Product Guide! — Dear community, After a fairly long research process that led us to run several webinars, write a ton and test things out with customers and adopters, we are finally able to release the first stable version of our Platform Growth and Product Guide. This newly released Platform Growth and Product…