Ilkka Kakko 23th May 2016

Engagement platforms?

“Pull platform is used metaphorically to describe frameworks for orchestrating a set of resources that can be configured quickly and easily to serve a broad range of needs”.

The authors have analysed ‘pull’ driven platform thinking and they conclude that to exploit the opportunities created by uncertainty, pull platforms help people to come together and innovate in response to unanticipated events, drawing upon a growing array of highly specialized and distributed resources.

Ref. John Hagel III, John Seely Brown & Lang Davison: ”The Power of Pull – How Small Moves, Smartly Made. Can Set Things in Motion”, Basic Books, New York, USA (2010), page 76

Platform classification

Modified from Kakko&Mikkelä: "Platform Thinking within the Third Generation Science Park Concept” paper and presentation at WTA / UNESCO Global Training Workshop, Daejeon 22.9.2015, :

Ilkka Kakko 23th May 2016

Platform classification

Ilkka Kakko 23th May 2016

The design principles for a well working competence platform

Ref. Sangeet Paul Choudary, modified by Ilkka Kakko

Ilkka Kakko 23th May 2016

Key challenges for near future1) To encourage further development of competence platforms (now only 1.0 versions

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2) To understand how competence platforms will support harnessing serendipity and Open Innovation 2.0 thinking

3) To create enough gravity

4) To have a global perspective