World-wide and Vertical-specific platforms The Digital Platforms are for the Digital Transformation what the power lines, highways, railways, ships (and ports, ship-lanes) were for the industrial transformation: they provide the infrastructures supporting the value chain and each player on the value chain. However, the digital platforms have some important difference …
Read More »Platforms, Present and Future XI
Platforms supporting the Gig Economy Platforms are basically slashing the transaction cost in connecting providers (of products, services) to the marketplace. As such they are ideal tools to support the Gig Economy and I would like to spend a few words to explore their role in this context. A clear …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Semantic based Digital Platform
Of the four approaches to Digital Platform for the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, the one based on data is the one convincing me most. The end-to-end approach is nice but probably over ambitious and it does not take into account legacy. The Communication based approach to me is …
Read More »Digital Transformation – A Digital Platform for Industry 4.0 – III
In a certain sense data come for free to Industry 4.0. What I mean is that over the last decade computers aided tools have become the screwdrivers and pliers of the past in manufacturing. Bits are pervasive in product design, prototyping, digital lathe, robots. And then bits are a crucial …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Creating an ad hoc Digital Platform
At EXPO 2015, Milan Italy, the Municipality of Milan and Lombardy Region had the objective of creating a digital ecosystem (E015) where all data related to the EXPO could be shared in an open way and leveraged by third parties, in addition to the EXPO 2015 organisation. Several streams of …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Creating an Institutional Digital Platform
What about starting from scratch to create a Digital Platform that could succeed? As stated it has to have the following characteristics: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to let third parties develop on …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Digital Platforms characteristics
I started my discussion on Digital Platforms considering the one created by smartphones because it was easy to point out the basic characteristics of a Digital Platform: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to …
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