Drive Digital Transformation With Platform Strategies
Innovate and transform your business models with digital platforms.
- Enterprise is grappling with the challenges of existing business models and strategies not leading to desired outcomes.
- Enterprise is struggling to remain competitive.
- Enterprise wants to understand how to leverage platform strategies and a digital platform.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
To remain competitive enterprises must renew and refresh their business model strategies and design/develop digital platforms – this requires enterprises to:
- Understand how digital-native enterprises are using platform business models and associated strategies.
- Understand their core assets and strengths and how these can be leveraged for transformation.
- Understand the core characteristics and components of a digital platform so that they can design digital platform(s) for their enterprise.
- Ask if the client’s digital transformation (DX) strategy is aligned with a digital platform enablement strategy.
- Ask if the enterprise has paid attention to the structure, culture, principles, and practices of platform teams.
Impact and Result
Organizations that implement this project will gain benefits in five ways:
- Awareness and understanding of various platform strategies.
- Application of specific platform strategies within the context of the enterprise.
- Awareness of their existing business mode, core assets, value proposition, and strengths.
- Alignment between DX themes and platform enablement themes so enterprises can develop roadmaps that gauge successful DX.
- Design of a digital platform, including characteristics, components, and team characteristics, culture, principles, and practices.
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Set goals for your platform business model
- Call 1: Discuss the platform model and importance of platforms.
- Call 2: Discuss various platform strategies.
- Call 3: Discuss transformation approaches.
- Call 4: Discuss key foundational and evolutionary questions for the platform business model.
Guided Implementation 2: Configure your digital platform
- Call 1: Discuss design goals for enterprise digital platform.
- Call 2: Discuss DX themes and platform capabilities and alignment between DX initiatives and platform enablement.
- Call 3: Discuss digital platform components – understand the gaps.
- Call 4: Discuss culture, structure, principles, and practices of successful platform engineering teams.
Contributors
- Ikram Ul-Haq, Sr. Developer/Analyst, OCP CPAS Systems, a Xerox Company
- Joakim Sunden, Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher, Crisp, ex-Spotify, author of Kanban in Action
- Rajan Mahadevan, Chief Technology Officer, WendiHealth
- Jimmy Janlen, Agile Coach, Casumo, ex-Spotify
- Zack Dawood, Sr. Director Product Engineering, CGI
- 11 anonymous contributors
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