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In this week's post, we talk about a recurring question often asked by companies, “how to become a real Platform Organization”?
Everybody ask for examples, and paths to follow, but examples are a hard catch!
What you need to do is...fall in love with uncertainty, and start learning.
Despite examples are not abundant, you can still find some relevant ones: this week's post focuses on the experience of Haier, the giant Chinese white goods company, one of the most studied worldwide by business schools.
Should your company walk the talk of platformization, by unbundiling into micro-enterprises driven by entrepreneurial employees? At least you should be able to replicate the GAFAs attitude towards listening to ecosystems: innovate, leverage, componentize, rinse repeat.
Before the the "Oh Shit!" moment hits, learn to be an Ambidextrous Organization: while only a "small minority of farsighted firms initiate discontinuous change before a performance decline", yours could be just one of them!
👉 Read more on this week's post on our blog
Linked in the post, you'll also find: two must read papers on innovation, a link to two classic posts from Clay Shirky, and Simon Wardley and much more!
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