Platform Strategy

Platform Strategy

Gregor Hohpe
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Table of Contents

About this Book›

  • About this Book

Part I: Understanding Platforms›

  • Standing on Giants’ Shoulders
  • The Fab Four of Technology Platforms

Part II: A Strategy for Platforms›

  • Formulating a Strategy
  • Becoming a Platform Company
  • The Platform Paradox
  • Mapping Platforms
  • Addendum: “I ACED My Strategy”
  • Talking with Platform Builders: SIMBAS

Part III: In-House Platforms›

  • In-House IT Platforms
  • IT Platform and IT Services Are Antonyms
  • Mechanisms, Not Magic
  • Do You Have an Opinion? A Mind of Your Own?
  • Making Platform Decisions
  • Procuring a Platform
  • Talking with Platform Builders: Singapore GovTech

Part IV: Designing Platforms›

  • The 7 “C”s of Platform Quality
  • Fruit Salad or Fruit Basket?
  • Cantilevered Platforms
  • Will Your Platform Float or Sink?
  • Beware the Grim Wrapper!
  • Build Abstractions Not Illusions
  • Failure Doesn’t Respect Abstraction
  • Platforms for AI & AI for Platforms

Part V: Implementing Platforms›

  • Platform Anatomy
  • Platform Orchestration
  • Ownership and Tenancy

Part VI: Growing Platforms›

  • Platform Evolution Is a Cube
  • The Shape of Platforms
  • Visualizing Platforms
  • Charting a Platform Roadmap
  • Tiering and Slicing

Part VII: Organizing for Platforms›

  • Platform, Inc.
  • Multi-sided Platform Teams
  • The Customer-Centric Platform Team
  • Platform Teams Without Platform
  • Author Biography
Platform Strategy/Part V: Implementing Platforms/Platform Anatomy

Platform Anatomy

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Main Components

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Management Plane

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Visual Interfaces

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Portal

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Dashboards

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Programmatic Interfaces

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Command-Line Interface

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Application Programming Interface

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Automation Language

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Control Plane

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User Management

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Service Catalog

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Service Orchestration

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Services Plane

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Base Services

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Third-Party Services

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Custom Services

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User-Contributed Services

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Example: Kubernetes

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Example: Internal Developer Platform

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Control Plane

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Service Plane

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