Pull Platforms
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In business, pull platform is a term used to describe the concept of a framework that scales
the ability to quickly draw in people and resources on an as-needed basis to respond to the rapidly changing landscape of opportunities and challenges in an information based economy
. Generally speaking, these frameworks turn diminishing returns
on resources into environments where the performance improvement of the individual participants accelerates as more participants engage.
Scalability
In electronics scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a graceful manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth...
the ability to quickly draw in people and resources on an as-needed basis to respond to the rapidly changing landscape of opportunities and challenges in an information based economy
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy is a term that refers either to an economy of knowledge focused on the production and management of knowledge in the frame of economic constraints, or to a knowledge-based economy. In the second meaning, more frequently used, it refers to the use of knowledge technologies to...
. Generally speaking, these frameworks turn diminishing returns
Diminishing returns
In economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant.The law of diminishing returns In economics, diminishing returns (also...
on resources into environments where the performance improvement of the individual participants accelerates as more participants engage.
Push versus pull platforms
Rather than existing on a completely binary scale pull platforms exist on a continuum with push strategies existing on one end and pull strategies existing on the opposite end.Traits of a push platform
- Demand can be anticipated
- Top down design
- Centralized control
- Procedural
- Tightly coupled
- Resource centric
- Participation restricted
- Efficiency focus
- Limited number of major re-engineering efforts
- Zero sumZero-sumIn game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which a participant's gain of utility is exactly balanced by the losses of the utility of other participant. If the total gains of the participants are added up, and the total losses are...
rewards - Extrinsic rewards dominate
Traits of a pull platform
- Demand is highly uncertain
- Emergent designEmergent DesignEmergent Design means that Design of Artifacts is itself an Emergent Phenomenon. This implies that it emerges in the creative design process, rather than being a blueprint that exists eternally in the ether like the Platonic source Forms and also that the artifact that is designed has emergent...
- Decentralized initiative
- Modular
- Loosely coupled
- People centric
- Many diverse participants
- Innovation focus
- Rapid incremental innovation
- Positive sum rewards
- Intrinsic rewards dominate
Industry leaders
- John Seely BrownJohn Seely BrownJohn Seely Brown is a researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bent towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities....
- John Hagel IIIJohn Hagel IIIJohn Hagel or John Hagel III is an author and former consultant who specializes in the intersection of business strategy and information technology. In 2007, Hagel, along with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, founded the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation...
- Lang Davison
- Henry ChesbroughHenry ChesbroughHenry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation and is the author of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology...