1.
SIMONE CICERO @meedabyte #PDToolkit
The MEANING of
the PLATFORM
ORGANIZATION
Culture Powered firms that
co-create value with
Ecosystems

2.
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Foto courtesy of Stefano Borghi

4.
OuiShare Culture

5.
CP CUlture

6.
SPOTIFY ENG: CODE?

7.
value driven: they don’t care
about anything that is not
producing tangible value
towards their customers and
partners.

8.
growth mindset and focus on
curiosity and continuous
learning (as a mean to
continuous improvement)
through continuous
experimentation.

9.
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

10.
trust as an enabler of
relationships, interactions and
conversations

11.
“Ohana means family. Family
means nobody gets left behind.... or
forgotten.” Lilo
Organizations = Ohanas

12.
“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

13.
“the social capacity of cooperation is the
foundation of human intelligence”
Esko Kilpi

14.
“The collective intelligence of our societies
depends on the tools that augment human
intelligence [...]
Post-industrial work is learning.”
Esko Kilpi
platforms

15.
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)

16.
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.

17.
in the connected age, bureaucratic organizations are bound to
be less intelligent.

18.
“Platforms are essentially bureaucracies
for the networked age”
Greg Satell

19.
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20.
INDY JOHAR
“every human is a
phenomenally
powerfully intelligent
machine, yet we treat
them as bad robots
who won’t get it”.
Indy Johar

21.
change
here is
long term
change
here is
palliative

22.
You don't change the organization
...by adopting slack.

23.
“We become what we
behold.
We shape our tools and
then our tools shape us”

24.
Shaping Organizations
=
Shaping Ourselves
=
Shaping Leadership
I really need to credit Stelio Verzera on seeing Organizations as Media, shaping ourselves.

25.
from
the organization as a way to
control production
to
the organization as a way of
designing and sustaining
interaction

26.
Nice but...
Why should an organization transform
into a Platform creating value inside and
outside its boundaries and putting
humans in the center?

27.
1. because it’s possible

28.
modern means of production

29.
utility
novel
modern infrastructures

30.
large scale coordination

31.
2. because it’s needed

32.
V.U.C.A.Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity,
Ambiguity

33.
“In every industry, the old is going
away faster than the new can
replace it.”
Beth Comstock
Vice Chair at GE

34.
organizational ambidexterity
(exploitation+exploration)

35.
Not Applicable Here
This could be your
worst mistake

36.
Not Applicable Here
This could be your
worst mistake

37.
Create Safe Spaces for EXPERIMENTATION

38.
“GE's has gone from process driven
to... hypothesis driven” Beth Comstock
@mHub Chicago, March 2017

39.
inside outside

40.
inside outside

41.
Niels Pflaeging’s theory
of three coexisting
structures

42.
Platforms are not technologies, but
scalable collaboration agreements.

43.
Platforms are not
technologies, but
scalable
collaboration
agreements.

44.
www.platformdesigntoolkit.com

45.
explore our workshops & masterclasses
at www.platformdesigntoolkit.com

46.
Flickr Picture Credits:
CC-BY-SA Aurimas Mikalauskas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aurimas_m/4515573689/
CC-BY-SA-ND Claudio Sepúlveda Geoffroy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elessar/15595636744/
CC-BY FollowYour Nose
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laprimadonna/5529952121
CC-BY patrick.ward04
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44685713@N04/6156813610
CC-BY Laura LaRose
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfsavard/3381008862

47.
You may also enyoing reading the
Context Post >bit.ly/PDT-POMeaning
Don’t Forget to Check Our Upcoming
Masterclasses in English:
http://bit.ly/PDT-MC

48.
Thank you!
Simone@platformdesigntoolkit.com