EAN: 9789811055348

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE STRATEGY AND PLATFORM-BAS...

This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy
and platform-based ecosystems. Firstly  the book introduces a framework of business
architecture strategy and suggests an engineering process that employs a business architecture
analysis system in which the various business best-practices information technology (IT) tools
are integrated into an interface. More specifically  this architecture analysis provides the
means to realize two essential features: a strategy that allows global firms to sense changing
market needs  and a tool that combines mechanical engineering with electronics and software IT
tools. Secondly  the book discusses platform-based ecosystems. Crucial issues for today's firms
are associated with value creation through their platform and ecosystem framework. With a major
emphasis on modular product architecture  US firms have focused heavily on platform development
in modular industries. Their base is operation system (OS) software  so that IT firms in
general focus on software capabilities-and digital control in particular. In contrast  the
advantage for Japanese firms is not digital but analog control. Without any drastic changes in
their industry practices  Japanese firms are likely to sustain their analog platform advantage.
The book subsequently puts forward a holistic view through the connection of business
architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems. The theoretical framework and case
illustrations are especially useful to firms involved in a variety of industries that must
respond to the turbulent environmental changes of the digital era. Most of the cases target not
only Japanese firms but also many other global firms. Readers are systematically shown how to
balance technological competence and customer competence by using the framework of business
architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems.

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