Platform Patterns—Using Proven Principles to Develop Digital Platforms

AbstractHardly any other area has as much disruptive potential as digital platforms in the course of digitalization. After serious changes have already taken place in the B2C sector with platforms such as Amazon and Airbnb, the B2B sector is on the threshold to the so-called platform economy. In mechanical engineering, pioneers like GE (PREDIX) and Claas (365FarmNet) are trying to get their hands on the act. This is hardly a promising option for small and medium-sized companies, as only a few large companies will survive. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are already facing the threat of losing direct consumer contact and becoming exchangeable executers. In order to prevent this, it is important to anticipate at an early stage which strategic options exist for the future platform economy and which adjustments to the product program should already be initiated today. Basically, medium-sized companies in particular lack a strategy for an advantageous entry into the future platform economy.The paper presents different approaches to master the challenges of participating in the platform economy by using platform patterns. Platform patterns represent proven principles of already existing platforms. We show how we derived a catalogue with 37 identified platform patterns. The catalogue has a generic design and can be customized for a specific use case. The versatility of the catalogue is underlined by three possible applications: (1) platform ideation, (2) platform development, and (3) platform characterization.

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An apple a day – how the platform economy impacts value creation in the healthcare market

Electronic Markets ◽

10.1007/s12525-021-00467-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Gleiss ◽

Marco Kohlhagen ◽

Key Pousttchi

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

New Technologies ◽

Healthcare Industry ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Value Network ◽

Healthcare Market ◽

Network Analyses ◽

The Social ◽

Research Gap ◽

Platform Economy

AbstractThe healthcare industry has been slow to adopt new technologies and practices. However, digital and data-enabled innovations diffuse the market, and the COVID-19 pandemic has recently emphasized the necessity of a fundamental digital transformation. Available research indicates the relevance of digital platforms in this process but has not studied their economic impact to date. In view of this research gap and the social and economic relevance of healthcare, we explore how digital platforms might affect value creation in this market with a particular focus on Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM). We rely on value network analyses to examine how GAFAM platforms introduce new value-creating roles and mechanisms in healthcare through their manifold products and services. Hereupon, we examine the GAFAM-impact on healthcare by scrutinizing the facilitators, activities, and effects. Our analyses show how GAFAM platforms multifacetedly untie conventional relationships and transform value creation structures in the healthcare market.

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Platform economy as a new form of capitalism: a Régulationist research programme

Cambridge Journal of Economics ◽

10.1093/cje/bez017 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 805-824 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Matthieu Montalban ◽

Vincent Frigant ◽

Bernard Jullien

Keyword(s):

Research Programme ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Growth Regime ◽

Long Run ◽

New Process ◽

New Form ◽

Platform Economy ◽

Mode Of Regulation

AbstractThe terms ‘platform economy’ or ‘sharing economy’ have become widespread with the development of digital platforms like Uber. This economy is transforming capitalism and raising important questions about its nature. Is it a new process of embeddedness or is it the next step for deregulation following the crisis of the financialised regime of accumulation (RA)? Is it a possible new Growth Regime? Using the approach of the French Régulation school of thought, we describe the nature and transformations of the form of competition inherent in platforms. Although this may favour some forms of re-embeddedness, we show that it will accelerate some of the trends and characteristics of the institutional forms of the financialised RA and that it is an endogenous product of its crisis. This raises further questions and uncertainties related to the ability of platforms to generate stable long run growth due to the dysfunctionality of the mode of régulation and the conflicts it could generate.

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Development and delivery of a work experience week programme for mechanical engineering

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education ◽

10.1177/0306419020981043 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 030641902098104

Author(s):

A Gonzalez-Buelga ◽

I Renaud-Assemat ◽

B Selwyn ◽

J Ross ◽

I Lazar

Keyword(s):

Work Experience ◽

Mechanical Engineering ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Impact Analysis ◽

Legal Term ◽

Stage 4 ◽

Engineering Design Problem ◽

Hands On ◽

University Of Bristol ◽

The University

This paper focuses on the development, delivery and preliminary impact analysis of an engineering Work Experience Week (WEW) programme for KS4 students in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (CAME) at the University of Bristol, UK. Key stage 4, is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs in England, age 15–16. The programme aims to promote the engineering profession among secondary school pupils. During the WEW, participants worked as engineering researchers: working in teams, they had to tackle a challenging engineering design problem. The experience included hands-on activities and the use of state-of-the-art rapid prototyping and advanced testing equipment. The students were supervised by a group of team leaders, a diverse group of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, technical staff, and academics at the School of CAME. The vision of the WEW programme is to transmit the message that everybody can be an engineer, that there are plenty of different routes into engineering that can be taken depending on pupils’ strengths and interests and that there are a vast amount of different engineering careers and challenges to be tackled by the engineers of the future. Feedback from the participants in the scheme has been overwhelmingly positive.

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Contemporary dynamics of the future of work, the platform economy and transient work pre- and post-COVID-19: A research agenda

Transitions Journal of Transient Migration ◽

10.1386/tjtm_00028_2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 3-10

Author(s):

Emsie Arnoldi ◽

Rachelle Bosua

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Future Of Work ◽

The Future ◽

Platform Economy

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The architecture of digital platforms of the future

Открытые системы. СУБД ◽

10.51793/os.2021.96.54.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

А. Прозоров ◽

Р. Шнырев ◽

Д. Волков

Keyword(s):

Business Processes ◽

Edge Computing ◽

Effective Demand ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

The Future ◽

The Cost

Стоимость единицы прибыли неуклонно растет, и для бизнеса пришло время задуматься о цифровых платформах, позволяющих успешно конкурировать в борьбе за платежеспособных клиентов. The cost per unit of profit is steadily increasing, and it is time for businesses to think about digital platforms that allow successfully compete for effective demand by joining the ecosystem, using specialization and theoretically unlimited scaling of business processes. One of the architecture options such a platform that connects the clouds, edge computing and 5G / 6G technologies, — hyperscaler.

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The campus of the future needs hands‐on learning, stackable certificates

The Successful Registrar ◽

10.1002/tsr.30900 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (9) ◽

pp. 6-7

Author(s):

Halley Sutton

Keyword(s):

Future Needs ◽

Hands On ◽

The Future ◽

Hands On Learning

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Editorial. Yes, Please - Both Crafts and Digital Tools in Basic Education

Form Akademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk ◽

10.7577/formakademisk.1266 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Liv Merete Nielsen ◽

Janne Beate Reitan

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Basic Education ◽

Compulsory Education ◽

Arts And Crafts ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Qualified Teachers ◽

Hands On ◽

The Future ◽

Important Challenge ◽

Near Future

The Ludvigsen Committee (Ludvigsen-utvalget), which aims to assess primary and secondary educational subjects in terms of the competence Norwegian society and its working life will need in the future, has published an interim report entitled Pupils’ Learning in the School of the Future – A Knowledge Foundation (Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, 2014). The committee wrote the following about arts and crafts: “That subject will contribute to personal development and simultaneously strengthen opportunities to participate in a democratic society, which can be seen as a desire to protect both individual-oriented and community-oriented training. The breadth of the subject can restrict the ability to delve into individual topics” (NOU 2014: 7, 2014, p. 89, our translation from Norwegian). This will be an important challenge for the team in the near future. The committee shall submit their principal report by June 2015.Practical work with materials must not be removed from primary school. It should be required that qualified teachers are employed on the lower grades. Practical/hands-on work can give the trades a boost, encourage students to choose vocations and prevent dropouts in vocational education programmes. We need skilled craftsmen in the future, and good teaching in Arts & Crafts in compulsory education could provide an important basis for both future craftsmen and customers of good craftsmen.

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A Psycho-Educational Approach to Coping with Failure Amongst Pupils

School Psychology International ◽

10.1177/014303438200300407 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 231-235 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruth Engel

Keyword(s):

General Model ◽

Early Stage ◽

Educational Approach ◽

Long Run ◽

The Future ◽

Basic Objective ◽

The Individual

In this paper I hope to explain the reasons for developing a method to provide the individual with tools to cope with failure at an early stage of his life; additionally, the general principles of that method will be formulated. Obviously, the basic objective is ultimately aimed at conditioning the child's thinking towards development of different attitudes in relation to failure situations. Success of the method, in the long run, depends upon the repetition of similar techniques, at least during the first years of the child's schooling. Thus we tend to believe that if we ‘instil’ in the child the proposed way of relating, he will then be able to cope not only with failure in the future but also with pressures exerted by unskilled teachers in school, who may use failure as a threat. As an additional alternative there is proposed a general model of treating children who have not been trained at an earlier stage to deal with failure within the school framework.

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