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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 — by Simone Cicero and Emanuele Quintarelli 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 adaptable to change and disruptions, leave maximum autonomy to the participants, and…

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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·May 24

Achieving and measuring growth:

Part 4 of a series on The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design — Abstract Last year has been quite a year for Platform Design Toolkit and in general for methodological updates here at Boundaryless. In 2022 we indeed released: a new guide and canvases set — the Platform Growth and Product Guide one key update to one of the Guides, the addition of the…

Platformdesign

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Achieving and measuring growth:
Achieving and measuring growth:
Platformdesign

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·Apr 24

Defining the Go-To-Market and Liquidity Approach

Part 3 of — The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design — This post by Simone Cicero and Luca Ruggeri was originally posted on Boundaryless’ website, check the original here. Abstract Last year has been quite a year for Platform Design Toolkit and in general for methodological updates here at Boundaryless. In 2022 we indeed released: a new guide and canvases set —…

Growth

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Defining the Go-To-Market and Liquidity Approach
Defining the Go-To-Market and Liquidity Approach
Growth

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·Feb 23

Visualizing a Product Portfolio Strategy on a Wardley Map

Why is it important and what you can get from doing it — In this article, we explain how to visualize a Portfolio of product/platform strategies on a Wardley Map (an abstraction of a value chain that considers the evolutionary stage of all components) and what advantages this can bring. This post has been co-developed through fieldwork and analysis in collaboration between Boundaryless…

Design

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Visualizing a Product Portfolio Strategy on a Wardley Map
Visualizing a Product Portfolio Strategy on a Wardley Map
Design

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·Jan 30

To Design a Platform is Easy — validating it is Hard

5 Essential Elements of a Validation Mindset that Works for Platforms — by Simone Cicero, Luca Ruggeri and Jacopo Romei Abstract In recent years, we witnessed an incredible flourishing of design practices (ok we’re culprits here…), and as a result, it’s nowadays much more at hand for a designer or entrepreneur to explore a market and an ecosystem, analyze a value chain and…

Validation

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To design a platform is easy — validating it is the hard part
To design a platform is easy — validating it is the hard part
Validation

9 min read

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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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