The Meaning of the Platform Organization

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The MEANING of the PLATFORM ORGANIZATION

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value driven: they don’t care about anything that is not producing tangible value towards their customers and partners.

growth mindset and focus on curiosity and continuous learning (as a mean to continuous improvement) through continuous experimentation.

The RESPONSIVE ORGANIZATION

“These companies are lean, mean, learning machines. They have an intense bias to action and a tolerance for risk, expressed through frequent experimentation and relentless product iteration. They hack together products and services, test them, and improve them, while their legacy competition edits PowerPoint.”

Aaron Dignan

trust as an enabler of relationships, interactions and conversations

“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind.... or forgotten.”

Lilo

Organizations = Ohanas

“If we continue to assume that some people are born intelligent, while most are not, and continue to see intelligence as a fixed, personal possession, the options for large-scale systemic changes will be few.”

Esko Kilpi

“the social capacity of cooperation is the foundation of human intelligence”

Esko Kilpi

“The collective intelligence of our societies depends on the tools that augment human intelligence [...]

Post-industrial work is learning.”

Esko Kilpi

platforms

in the connected age, advanced organizations traits can be only developed by means of interactions between the inside (employees and collaborators), the outside (customers and providers) and the edge (partners)

modern organizational intelligence IS inherently social and relational: bureaucratic organizations think in terms of boundaries and fail to have the right conversations across these boundaries.

in the connected age, bureaucratic organizations are bound to be less intelligent.

“Platforms are essentially bureaucracies for the networked age”

Greg Satell

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INDY JOHAR

“every human is a phenomenally powerfully intelligent machine, yet we treat them as bad robots who won’t get it”.

Indy Johar

change here is long term

change here is palliative

You don't change the organization ...by adopting slack.

“We become what we behold.

We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”

Shaping Organizations =

Shaping Ourselves=

Shaping Leadership

I really need to credit Stelio Verzera on seeing Organizations as Media, shaping ourselves.

from the organization as a way to

control production to

the organization as a way of designing and sustaining

interaction

Nice but...Why should an organization transform into a Platform creating value inside and outside its boundaries and putting humans in the center?

1. because it’s possible

modern means of production

utility

novel modern infrastructures

large scale coordination

2. because it’s needed

V.U.C.A.Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity,

Ambiguity

“In every industry, the old is going away faster than the new can

replace it.”

Beth ComstockVice Chair at GE

organizational ambidexterity(exploitation+exploration)

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“GE's has gone from process driven to... hypothesis driven”

Beth Comstock@mHub Chicago, March 2017

inside outside

inside outside

Niels Pflaeging’s theory of three coexisting structures

Platforms are not technologies, butscalable collaboration agreements.

Platforms are not technologies, but

scalable collaboration

agreements.

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Thank you!Simone@platformdesigntoolkit.com