Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization



My career as both as CTO and CIO has been with companies that develop customer facing software applications. This series of posts on Markets, Programs and Platforms is a paradigm that I've developed over several years across different organizations - from startups to enterprises, from consumer application to B2B. Instead of developing products, develop your markets and customer segments. Instead of working project by project, develop teams and manage them as programs. Select a few platforms, develop internal expertise and and establish reusable services.

The combination of these three shifts leads to significant agility, allows teams to develop and enhance products faster, and improves quality.

It's not an overnight transformation. To learn more:

Introduction 

Markets and Products

Programs vs. Projects

 Platforms

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About Isaac Sacolick

Isaac Sacolick is President of StarCIO, a technology leadership company that guides organizations on building digital transformation core competencies. He is the author of Digital Trailblazer and the Amazon bestseller Driving Digital and speaks about agile planning, devops, data science, product management, and other digital transformation best practices. Sacolick is a recognized top social CIO, a digital transformation influencer, and has over 900 articles published at InfoWorld, CIO.com, his blog Social, Agile, and Transformation, and other sites. You can find him sharing new insights @NYIke on Twitter, his Driving Digital Standup YouTube channel, or during the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers.