Catalyze the Inevitable with Platform Architectures

In Empowering Business with a Platform Architecture Approach, Graeme Perrins of Deloitte Platform Engineering practice professes that 'a platform architecture aligns the business and technology architectures to business domain platforms. Under this model, platform architecture means:

“Structuring the business into domain owned technology platforms that deliver business value across and beyond the domain via domain owned and managed platform services.”

By taking a combinatorial approach to a Platform economy architecture thought leaders reign in the domains of Product, Operational and Commerce to start addressing use of Technology. Such Platforms have vast potentials to leap frog both Business and Technical Outcomes and Objectives.

You may want to refer the the working paper from  Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard published by the Harvard Business School The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Working Paper to understand the recognition level of the 'role of “platform” products and services in mediating the activities of disaggregated “clusters” or “ecosystems” of firms. This also elaborates the discussion on the 'combination of conservation and variety has been harnessed both in product lines within the boundaries of a single firm (e.g., the Sony Walkman) and in large clusters or ecosystems of interdependent firms (as in the computer industry), as well as in the more general setting of multi-sided market.'

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