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Stories of Platform Design

Examples, case studies and explorations in Platform Design and Entrepreneurial Organizing

A HIGHLY VISUAL WAY FOR TEAMS TO OPTIMIZE PRODUCTS AND ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS

Explore the newly released Portfolio Map Canvas

A strategic tool to align customer needs to product portfolios, and restructure teams, and organizational capabilities for sustainable growth

By aligning their organizations to product portfolios with clarity, organizations enhance market effectiveness, reduce operational inefficiencies, and set the foundation for sustainable growth.

The Portfolio Map Canvas: A Revolutionary Tool for Organizational Portfolio Strategy

Discover a revolutionary tool – available in Creative Commons – for aligning organizational structure with portfolio strategy. Visualize and optimize...

Discover a revolutionary tool –...

Simone Cicero

March 06, 2025

Our Series on the Platform Organization

Transforming your Organization in an Ecosystem of Independent Teams and Units

How Organizational Structures Evolve: From Functional to Matrix to Platform Models

In an era of organizational evolution, businesses are shifting from traditional structures to a platform organization model. This innovative approach...

In an era of organizational...

Multiple Authors

January 15, 2024

Diagnosing a Product Portfolio with Brian Balfour’s Four Fits – and the Portfolio Map Canvas

Discover how to evaluate complex product portfolios using Brian Balfour’s Four Fits framework integrated with the Portfolio Map Canvas. Perfect...

Discover how to evaluate complex...

Simone Cicero

May 06, 2025

How To Structure Units and Teams in a Platform Organization

Explore the role of the platform models in organizational development. Understand the convergence of team topologies and micro-enterprises. Discover how...

Explore the role of the...

Multiple Authors

April 09, 2024

Playing to Win in Platform Organizations

Applying a clear Strategic Framework in Product-Centric & Distributed Organizations.

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Applying a clear Strategic Framework...

Simone Cicero

November 12, 2024

A Manifesto for the Platform Organization

4 Beliefs and 11 Design Principles to design adaptable, evolving, and future-proof platform organizations that can thrive through the challenges...

4 Beliefs and 11 Design...

Multiple Authors

May 08, 2024

Embracing AI to power Entrepreneurship and Autonomy

Platform Organization: The Natural Architecture for AI-First Companies

Learn why the Platform Organization is the Operational Model best suited for the Age of AI

Explore how AI transforms organizational structures, from micro-enterprises to shared services platforms, and learn how platform organizations can adapt and thrive in an AI-driven economy.

Platform Organization: The Natural Architecture for AI-First Companies

Explore how AI transforms organisational structures, from micro-enterprises to shared services platforms and learn how platform organizations can adapt and...

Explore how AI transforms organisational...

Simone Cicero

November 26, 2024

Mobilising Ecosystems Inside and Outside your Organization

Some of the Latest Long Reads

The Three Things you need to Focus on as an Early-Stage Product Startup

Three key focuses and three key artifacts for successful early-stage product startup strategy & execution.

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Three key focuses and three...

Multiple Authors

October 17, 2024

Growth Models as Strategic Frameworks in Multi-Product Companies

Discover how growth models transcend their traditional role as projection tools to become powerful frameworks that shape organizational strategy, drive...

Discover how growth models transcend...

Multiple Authors

December 16, 2024

How Platform Organizations can streamline Advanced Technology Platform Management

This article examines the integration of Technology Platforms within Platform Organizations, focusing on tech-intensive industries. We discuss challenges in traditional...

This article examines the integration...

Simone Cicero

September 10, 2024

The Future of Organizational Data: Merging Data Mesh with Platform Design

This article explores the intersection of The Platform Organization model and of Product/Platform Design with Data Mesh, a paradigm shift...

This article explores the intersection...

Multiple Authors

September 23, 2024

Designing a Platform Organization: Navigating Key Architectural Decisions

A practical framework for organizations transitioning to platform-based organizational models.

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A practical framework for organizations...

Multiple Authors

November 03, 2024

How can Venture Capital and Platform Organization Paradigms Reinforce Each Other?

This article explores how the venture capital approach is a necessary skill Platform Organizations should learn and apply to leverage...

This article explores how the...

Luca Ruggeri

August 26, 2024

Orient yourself along the steps

The Poster for all Platform Design / Marketplace Design techniques

All in one place

Approaching all phases of Platform-Marketplace design can be a painful process where teams get lost easily. Over the last 10 years at Boundaryless we developed everything teams need to go through such a task. Enjoy this recap poster that will help your team orient, identify the key questions, and find the right resources for help.

Download the Platform Design Techniques Poster

Approaching all phases of Platform Design / Marketplace design can be a painful process where teams could get lost easily....

Approaching all phases of Platform...

Multiple Authors

January 30, 2024

A new Series

Techniques of Platform Design and Development:

Understanding Ecosystems to create the right Value Propositions: Part 1 of a Series on the Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design

In this series of posts starting today we’ll progressively offer an updated, dashboard-like, view of the Platform Design Toolkit and...

In this series of posts...

Multiple Authors

December 02, 2022

Defining the Platform Experience, and Flywheels for Defensibility: Part 2 of a series on The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design

In this series of posts, we are progressively offering an updated, dashboard-like, view of the Platform Design Toolkit and we...

In this series of posts,...

Multiple Authors

January 16, 2023

Defining the Go-To-Market and Liquidity Approach: Part 3 of a series on The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design

In this third post of a series on the macro problems of platform design, we explain how to approach the...

In this third post of...

Multiple Authors

April 20, 2023

Achieving and measuring growth: Part 4 of a series on The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design

In this fourth post of a series on the macro problems of platform design, we explain how to establish a...

In this fourth post of...

Multiple Authors

May 22, 2023

Introducing the Growth Model Canvas and an Updated Growth Model Spreadsheet template

Understand how to measure and strategize around growth. Choose the channels for customer acquisition, distribute the customer acquisition budget to...

Understand how to measure and...

Multiple Authors

June 18, 2024

To Design a Platform is Easy – validating it is Hard

What’s the right way to develop a validation mindset as you develop a platform? What are the critical elements of...

What’s the right way to...

Multiple Authors

January 25, 2023

Highlights: check out the latest updates to the methodology!

Seek Growth and evolve your Platform Strategy with the Platform Growth and Product Guide

After a fairly long research process that led us to run several webinars, write a ton and test things out...

After a fairly long research...

Multiple Authors

June 27, 2022

The New 3EO Toolkit and Adoption Guide

Boundaryless is excited to publicly release the new version of the 3EO Toolkit with 7 new canvases, a User &...

Boundaryless is excited to publicly...

Emanuele Quintarelli

June 08, 2022

A New release of the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide: Arena Scanning for Ecosystem breakdown

In this post, we present the release of a new version of the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide. The new release...

In this post, we present...

Multiple Authors

October 17, 2022

The Platform Design Toolkit and the 3EO Toolkit are now available as Templates on Mural

In an effort to make it easier for adopters to quickly gather a team around a platform design or organizational...

In an effort to make...

Boundaryless Team

November 09, 2022

Discovering Platform Opportunities and implementing your Platform Strategy

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...

What are the key value...

Simone Cicero

March 22, 2022

Identifying a Platform Strategy Model and its potential go-to-market strategy: a streamlined process

Learn about a streamlined process to define a Platform Strategy Model and a potential “go-to-market” strategy: using the Platform Strategy...

Learn about a streamlined process...

Multiple Authors

October 05, 2022

Visualizing a Product Portfolio Strategy on a Wardley Map

In this article, we explain how to visualize a Portfolio of product/platform strategies on a Wardley Map (an abstraction of...

In this article, we explain...

Multiple Authors

February 07, 2023

Apply Value Chain Analysis with Wardley Maps to identify a Platform Opportunity

In this post, we share some of the most important heuristics we use as we integrate Wardley Maps with Platform...

In this post, we share...

Simone Cicero

May 06, 2022

Transforming your Organization in an Entrepreneurial Powerhouse

Power, Pay, Purpose with No Managers

How Haier’s RenDanHeYi and our 3EO practices go beyond the roadblocks of current Human Resources and Organizational structures to define compensation...

How Haier’s RenDanHeYi and our...

Emanuele Quintarelli

November 28, 2023

RenDanHeYi and SAFe. A side-by-side comparison

A detailed comparison of the RenDanHeYi / 3EO and the most widely adopted agile framework, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), in...

A detailed comparison of the...

Multiple Authors

November 07, 2023

Adopting a Product-Centric operating model at Scale

In this post we explore how adopting a Product-Centric operating model proceeds as you scale and what processes of continuous...

In this post we explore...

Multiple Authors

November 16, 2022

The Key Promises of Organizational Unbundling: Embracing Market-Based Organizational Models in the Product-Centric Era

What if every unit in your organization functioned autonomously? Embrace organizational unbundling and tap into the heart of innovation, resilience,...

What if every unit in...

Multiple Authors

June 06, 2023

Shifting to an Organizational Unbundling Model: When and Why

Explore the advantages and scenarios of Organizational Unbundling as an innovative approach for fostering business agility, driving innovation, and increasing...

Explore the advantages and scenarios...

Multiple Authors

September 11, 2023

An Entrepreneurial, Ecosystem Enabling Organization

What’s emerging from understanding Haier Group: an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization, Rendanheyi, and the Ecosystem Micro-Community

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What’s emerging from understanding Haier...

Boundaryless Team

August 23, 2019

Making the best of Web3 and DAOs

Building Products and Protocols in Web3: a Playbook

In this piece we share a systematic overview of the driver of adopting web 3 enablers in designing a new...

In this piece we share...

Simone Cicero

September 12, 2022

Bootstrapping user-owned Networks with Web3

What are the possibilities that web3, tokenomics, and the adoption of blockchain technology are enabling for founders? What are the...

What are the possibilities that...

Simone Cicero

April 12, 2022

Can DAOs be Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations?

In this post, we reflect on the difference and convergences between DAOs and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations, following some preliminary...

In this post, we reflect...

Multiple Authors

May 19, 2022

Weighing the Impact of Web 3 Protocols on Platforms

Platforms have been criticized often for their tendency to centralize, control and commoditize their ecosystems: can web3 protocols offer new...

Platforms have been criticized often...

Simone Cicero

May 08, 2023

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This blog collects stories, case studies, and explorations in Platform Design, Vision and Execution, and features most of our research updates. Previously it was published solely on Medium at stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com and it’s currently in transition. Check the Medium blog for the full archive.