Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy (2014)

Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy (2014)

Introduction

Part I. The Rise of Platforms

Chapter 1. The Rise of Platform Ecosystems

Chapter 2. Core Concepts and Principles

Chapter 3. Why Platform Businesses Are Unlike Product or Service Businesses

Chapter 4. The Value Proposition of Platforms

Part II. Architecture and Governance

Chapter 5. Platform Architecture

Chapter 6. Platform Governance

Part III. Dynamics and Metrics of Ecosystem Evolution

Chapter 7. Metrics of Evolution

Chapter 8. Real Options Thinking in Ecosystem Evolution

Chapter 9. Modular Operators

Part IV. Orchestrating Evolution

Chapter 10. Evolving a Platform

Chapter 11. Evolving an App

Part V. The Road Ahead

Chapter 12. Every Product Is a Platform Waiting to Happen

Glossary