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…

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…

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…

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…

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!

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…

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 —…

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…

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…