Drive Digital Transformation With Platform Strategies
Innovate and transform your business models with digital platforms.
Onsite Workshop
Without an understanding of the digital platform model enterprises will:
- Struggle to remain competitive in the digital era.
- Struggle to lead a successful DX.
- Be unable to design and implement a successful digital platform.
Enterprises that implement the platform business model and a digital platform will:
- Experience business model innovation (refresh/renew).
- Succeed with DX.
- Lay the foundation for a digital enterprise, which includes understanding the strategies, design goals, components, and culture/structure of engineering teams.
- Design a digital platform that can lead to successful IT transformation.
Module 1: Understand Platform Business Model and Strategies
The Purpose
- Understand existing business model, value proposition, and key assets.
- Understand platform business model and strategies.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding the current assets helps with knowing what can be leveraged in the new business model/transformation.
- Understanding the platform strategies can help the enterprise renew/refresh their business model.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
---|---|---|
1.1 | Document the current business model along with value proposition and key assets (that provide competitive advantage). |
|
1.2 | Transformation narrative. |
|
1.3 | Platform model canvas. |
|
1.4 | Document the platform strategies in the context of the enterprise. |
|
Module 2: Planning for Platform Business Model
The Purpose
- Understand transformation approaches.
- Understand various layers of platforms.
- Ask fundamental and evolutionary questions about the platform.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of the transformational model so that the enterprise can realize the differences.
- Understanding of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses for a DX.
- Extraction of strategic themes to plan and develop a digital platform roadmap.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
---|---|---|
2.1 | Discuss and document decision about DX approach and next steps. |
|
2.2 | Discuss and document high-level strategic themes for platform business model and associated roadmap. |
|
Module 3: Digital Platform Strategy
The Purpose
- Understand the design goals for the digital platform.
- Understand gaps between the platform’s capabilities and the DX strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Design goals set for the digital platform that are visible to all stakeholders.
- Gap analysis performed between enterprise’s digital strategy and platform capabilities; this helps understand the current situation and thus informs strategies and roadmaps.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
---|---|---|
3.1 | Discuss and document design goals for digital platform. |
|
3.2 | Discuss DX themes and platform capabilities – document the gaps. |
|
3.3 | Discuss gaps and strategies along with timelines. |
|
Module 4: Digital Platform Design: Key Components
The Purpose
- Understanding of key components of a digital platform, including technology and teams.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of the key components of a digital platform and designing the platform.
- Understanding of the team structure, culture, and practices needed for successful platform engineering teams.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
---|---|---|
4.1 | Confirmation and discussion on existing UX/UI and API strategies. |
|
4.2 | Understanding of microservices architecture and filling of microservices canvas. |
|
4.3 | Real-time stream processing data pipeline and tool map. |
|
4.4 | High-level architectural view. |
|
4.5 | Discussion on platform engineering teams, including culture, structure, principles, and practices. |
|