Recently, a conversation with my friend @cycch challenged me to reflect on technology's impact on organizational settings, leading me further into the realms of modularity and composability in products & organizations. Our work at @Boundaryless_ has been focusing a lot on the topic recently and has found surprising resonance with leading voices in the space.

I think I'm on it. I'm identifying a pattern for the development of ecosystemic strategies based on 6 layers:
1. an open protocol (domain model) that abstracts the domain of the interactions, the entities, the workflows and the transactions;

https://twitter.com/sebnem/status/1494620567441395715

2. a shared infrastructure for transparent and untamperable data persistence of informational and financial transactions;

I 'm reflecting on this since a while.

On markets today: on one hand we're seeing ultra-specific domain models (marketplaces) and on the other end very generic/horizontal contracting platforms, such as Haier's rendanheyi and its supporting software Haier's EMC (self-managed and self-defined multi-sided smart contracts aimed at creating a certain outcome) is a kind of *evolution* of a transaction: as transaction cost plummets complex (smart) contracts can become the new transactions, reducing the need to rely on scale.

I've read the lead essay by @DavidCStark6 and @ivanapais from "Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism" and some other pieces. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/1… I found this work a bit disconnected from the newest evolution of the "so-called" platform economy. More specifically, I think I see two issues: first it doesn't really capture how the continued drive towards niche(r) marketplaces is pushing the pendulum more towards supplier enablement vs componentization, seems that the whole discussion is still anchored on that idea of ...

At @Boundaryless_ we recently spent a few weeks researching the key aspects of *pricing* in platforms and marketplaces to provide the key challenges: here's a thread with what I've learnt 🧵 👇 One of the highlights of a recent conversation we had with @JamesCurrier was that as we move into more vertical/managed marketplace opportunities, a mix of platform-provided services often complements the "transactional" nature of the marketplace and pricing becomes strategic

A little thread on @kevinakwok latest *atomic concepts" essay
👉 kwokchain.com/2021/02/05/ato… 𝐎𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐬
"best products map to how customers think about their workflow. They match the abstraction level of their customers: not too high that it’s unusable, but not too low that it’s hard to use easily or extend..."

The transformation of the firm when transaction cost plummets and potential grows at the edge (a thread)

👇1/18 What is happening in the context of organizing?
1) transaction cost plummets thus elements of the workflow that can be leveraged from outside a firm become more and more compelling (the ratio between transaction cost and interaction value plummets)

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