The document discusses the evolution of platform organizations that prioritize co-creation and value generation within ecosystems, emphasizing a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and adaptability. It highlights the shift from bureaucratic structures to modern, relational frameworks that enhance organizational intelligence through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. The necessity for organizations to transform into platforms capable of rapid adaptation in response to a volatile and complex business environment is underscored.

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

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3. Foto courtesy of Stefano Borghi

5. OuiShare Culture

6. CP CUlture

10. SPOTIFY ENG: CODE?

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

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

13. 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

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

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

16. “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

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

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

19. 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)

20. 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.

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

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

23. ?

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

25. change
here is
long term
change
here is
palliative

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

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

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

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

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

32. 1. because it’s possible

33. modern means of production

34. utility
novel
modern infrastructures

35. large scale coordination

40. 2. because it’s needed

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

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

45. organizational ambidexterity
(exploitation+exploration)

46. Not Applicable Here
This could be your
worst mistake

47. Not Applicable Here
This could be your
worst mistake

48. Create Safe Spaces for EXPERIMENTATION

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

50. inside outside

51. inside outside

52. Niels Pflaeging’s theory
of three coexisting
structures

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

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

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65. Thank you!
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