Business Architecture Strategy and Platform-Based Ecosystems

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 bu

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Business Architecture Strategy and Platform-Based Ecosystems

Business Architecture Strategy and Platform-Based Ecosystems

Young Won Park

Business Architecture Strategy and Platform-Based Ecosystems

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Young Won Park Faculty Economics, Graduate School of Humanities Social Sciences Saitama University Saitama Japan

ISBN 978-981-10-5534-8 ISBN 978-981-10-5535-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5535-5

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Preface

On a bleak afternoon in the winter of 2016, I found myself sitting in a conference room with several managers and engineers. They worked for a Japanese multi-national corporation manufacturing vacuum-related equipment. After a few minutes of small talk, one of them began to share his worries about the increasing maturity of the firm’s industry. He said: “Every weekend I go to Korea in order to protect our company’s market share. We are trying to shorten our production lead times but, when I see the immense speed at which Korean firms develop their products, I know that our current efforts are not enough. We need real change.” Before I began my PowerPoint presentation on business architecture, Mr. M, another executive, said earnestly: “I have a request to make today. So many Japanese business practitioners criticize the academics for presenting theories that do not reflect real-life practices within the firm. Please, prove those critics wrong and show us concrete measures that we can apply to our business procedures to overcome our current slump.” This is a common scene