Category: Agile
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Platform Economics (2) – Network Dynamics
I thought I'd write some more about some of the basic economic fundamentals of platform business models (links to the other posts in this series are collected at the bottom of this post). It's worth delving a bit more into network dynamics
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Platform Economics
I've been writing a bit recently about the shift from linear pipeline to platform business models, in part to help me be more precise in how I define and describe it (to clients), and in part because I think the degree of shift in
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The Red Queen’s Trap
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass the Red Queen's race sees Alice and the Queen running fast yet standing still. Alice decries the pointlessness of running without getting anywhere. In our country, she says, you run to get somewhere. "Now, here, you see,"
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Google Firestarters 24 – Deciphering Digital Transformation – The Event
On Wednesday evening we had the 24th Google Firestarters which took digital transformation as it's subject. The event had been well oversubscribed within 48 hours of registration opening, demonstrating the high level of interest that there is around this topic in agencies
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Acronyms Really Do Suck
This 2010 memo from Elon Musk, written to the SpaceX team on the theme of tackling the burgeoning use of acronyms in the business, speaks to a long-time bugbear of mine. There was, he said at the time, a creeping tendency… 'Excessive
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What Exactly IS a Platform Business Model?
'Platform' is a somewhat overused word these days and yet, as I wrote over on the agile business blog, speaks to arguably one of the most fundamental shifts in business models and thinking of the digital age. It is however, poorly defined (and
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The ‘Antifragile’ Organisation
In the book I talk a lot about how, in the face of rapidly changing contexts, there is a need for greater organisational manoeuvrability and not just speed. Speed is great, but speed in the wrong direction helps no-one. Improved adaptability helps responsiveness but
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Products to Service
I talk a lot to clients (and also in my book of-course) about what the shift from product orientation to experience really means. As software eats the world an ever increasing number of products are becoming services – even those that you
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Avoiding Day Two
Jeff Bezos' latest annual letter to Amazon shareholders was well shared but is full of insight into how Amazon retain agility as they scale. It was released a couple of weeks back, but I'm capturing my key takeouts here as my way
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The Journey to Writing my Book
My book was finally published yesterday. It sounds a bit cheesy to talk about a 'journey', but this does feel rather like a cairn on the summit of a gently sloping trail of learning which I've been travelling along for over a