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Are Platforms Commons?
Are Platforms Commons?
Before sweeping regulation of platforms as common carriers, should we instead reconfigure them as commons, governed by the participants?
Stowe Boyd
Sep 9, 2019
Spotify | An Emergent Organization
Spotify | An Emergent Organization
The mechanisms that enable self-management also balance freedom and control
Stowe Boyd
Jul 30, 2019
Playing Both Ends Against The Middle
Playing Both Ends Against The Middle
Ride-hailing pioneer Uber had a disappointing initial public offering, after raising $8.8 billion at an average of $48.77 per share, and…
Stowe Boyd
May 28, 2019
Simone Cicero on Ecosystemic Organizations
Simone Cicero on Ecosystemic Organizations
Ecosystem organizations deal more with preparing, nurturing and respecting the “soil” than actually gardening the plants.
Stowe Boyd
Apr 8, 2019
Innovating in a VUCA World: The Six Contexts Model
Innovating in a VUCA World: The Six Contexts Model
How Haier innovates in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world
Stowe Boyd
Jul 25, 2019
What We Can Learn From Bill Gore about Emergent Leadership
What We Can Learn From Bill Gore about Emergent Leadership
The Gore theory of emergent leadership: One becomes a leader by attracting followers
Stowe Boyd
Jul 30, 2019
Platforming | Pulling The Business Inside Out
Platforming | Pulling The Business Inside Out
The first step is the hardest step
Stowe Boyd
Jul 31, 2019
Opening and Closing Ecosystem Markets
Opening and Closing Ecosystem Markets
Open to entice collaborators, closed to shut out competitors
Stowe Boyd
Jul 23, 2019
On Emergent Leadership
On Emergent Leadership
What are senior executives afraid of? Loosening the reins.
Stowe Boyd
Jul 18, 2019
Platforming | What Jeff Bezos Thinks
Platforming | What Jeff Bezos Thinks
The virtuous cycle at the center of Amazon spiraled up into one of the world’s most highly valued companies
Stowe Boyd
Jul 24, 2019
Looking at the World with One Eye Closed
Looking at the World with One Eye Closed
Neil Irwin, in The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation, uncovers the mistake that economists made in…
Stowe Boyd
May 14, 2019
User-Centric Innovation and the Shape of Things to Come
User-Centric Innovation and the Shape of Things to Come
Innovation is accelerated by users taking a lead role in designing and creating the products and services they require.
Stowe Boyd
Jun 28, 2019
Platforming | What Vivaldi Thinks
Platforming | What Vivaldi Thinks
I look into a report from March 2019 from Vivaldi
Stowe Boyd
May 31, 2019
Instacart’s Broken Flywheel
Instacart’s Broken Flywheel
A two-sided marketplace turns out to be multi-sided, and that makes a big difference
Stowe Boyd
Jul 19, 2019
Untelling the Dominant Economic Story
Untelling the Dominant Economic Story
Something is wrong with the simple idea that best business practices evolve by between-firm selection
Stowe Boyd
Apr 9, 2019
Amazon Logistics And Trucking: Virtuous Cycles and The Flywheel Effect
Amazon Logistics And Trucking: Virtuous Cycles and The Flywheel Effect
Amazon is once again demonstrating that it is unstoppable. This time it’s logistics.
Stowe Boyd
Jun 28, 2019
Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers on Self-Organization and Leadership
Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers on Self-Organization and Leadership
One of the earliest explorations of the business as a complex, living system: an ecosystem.
Stowe Boyd
Apr 21, 2019
On Haier’s Ecosystem Micro-Communities
On Haier’s Ecosystem Micro-Communities
Loose interdependencies between the members of an ecosystem are a source of strength, not a flaw
Stowe Boyd
Jul 15, 2019
Platform Ecosystems as Innovation Acceleration
Platform Ecosystems as Innovation Acceleration
Earning more from innovation by scaling better.
Stowe Boyd
Jul 5, 2019
Lee Bryant on Digital Leadership
Lee Bryant on Digital Leadership
A Model for Upgrading the Organizational Operating System
Stowe Boyd
Jun 28, 2019
The Shape of The Network in Platform Competition
The Shape of The Network in Platform Competition
Researchers Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti try to extract some general lessons from specific platform competitions.
Stowe Boyd
Jun 26, 2019
The Present and Future of On-Demand Work Platforms
The Present and Future of On-Demand Work Platforms
How had I forgotten about Wonolo?
Stowe Boyd
Jun 22, 2019
Rent the Runway’s Platform Strategy Becomes Clear
Rent the Runway’s Platform Strategy Becomes Clear
Rent the Runway has become one of the biggest stories in fashion since its founding in 2009. With its recent Series F round bringing in…
Stowe Boyd
Jun 22, 2019
The Limits of Digital: Ideas, Creativity, and Cultural Reformation
The Limits of Digital: Ideas, Creativity, and Cultural Reformation
The Decline In Productivity: A Cause or a Clue?
Stowe Boyd
Apr 8, 2019
All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful
All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful
I examine an ecosystem modeling approach called V2.
Stowe Boyd
May 24, 2019
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