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Build Strategies for the 21st Century

Boundaryless helps global customers with Business Strategy and Organization Design for the age of Ecosystems

We create open-source frameworks for platform design and entrepreneurial organization development: we support a global community of organizations, institutions, and individuals through workshops, training, and consulting services.

Platform Strategies

With the Platform Design Toolkit Methodology

Our world-renowned methodologies for platform design and innovation help you identify opportunities for new platforms, products, and services, design and validate your strategies on the market and implement growth: all with proven techniques adopted by thousands.

Entrepreneurial Organizations

With the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization Framework

We help you evolve your organizational models and structures by creating autonomy for your teams, and unleash entrepreneurial spirit: create an organization that is able to pursue a portfolio of opportunities, by reducing bureaucracy and letting your organization engage with markets.

Research and Thinking

We explore the edges of platforms & ecosystems thinking to evolve our tools and prepare for what’s next.

Consulting

Get the help you need to create new products and services through platforms, reinvent your organization and enable your teams to bring new growth opportunities.

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Attend one of our public training to learn Platform Design and Entrepreneurial Organizational Development or ask for a private training for your team.

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Join our community of practice and meet other pioneers, designers, and organizational leaders and learn together.

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The Portfolio Map Canvas

A revolutionary, strategic and highly visual tool to align customer needs to product portfolios, and restructure teams, and organizational capabilities for sustainable growth.

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Canvases and Guides to help you identify Platform Opportunities, design Platform Experiences and pursue Validation and Growth.

The 3EO Toolkit

Canvases and Guide to help you redesign your organization as a swarm of entrepreneurial units supported by shared services.

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On our blog, we share our research updates on platform thinking and entrepreneurial organizing, we introduce new developments about the frameworks, announce trainings, webinars, and much more: everything that happens in the Boundaryless universe.

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At Boundaryless, not only we provide openly accessible, creative-commons released methodologies and frameworks but we also train our adopters so that they can be autonomous, bringing the platform and entrepreneurial revolution to their own organizations and teams.

By joining our training programs you’ll be able to either bring your own platform opportunities, and organizational challenges, and work on them, or join certification programs that aim at allowing you to use our methodologies properly with your customers or inside your large organzation.

April

Mastering Portfolio Strategy & Platform Organizations

1 and 1/2 Days in Madrid To Learn how to create product Portfolios in Platform Organizations: Map and prioritize product...

1 and 1/2 Days in...

Portfolio Map Exploration Workshop

A full-fledged workshop based on Two 4-hour mapping sessions with Simone Cicero, one session will be dedicated to mapping the...

A full-fledged workshop based on...

Portfolio Map Exploration Coaching Calls

A 1-hour minimum session to help your team onboard to the Portfolio Map, doing actual mapping and advisory and help...

A 1-hour minimum session to...

3EO/Rendanheyi Fully Self Paced Masterclass

Haier Model Institute – in partnership with Boundaryless-Platform Design Toolkit – is proud to offer online, autonomous training to learn...

Haier Model Institute – in...

Platform Design Certification Bootcamp

Learn with us and get certified.

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Learn with us and get...

Read some of our best blog posts

The Portfolio Map Canvas: A Revolutionary Tool for Organizational Portfolio Strategy

Discover a revolutionary tool – available in Creative Commons – for aligning organizational structure with portfolio strategy. Visualize and optimize...

Discover a revolutionary tool –...

Simone Cicero

March 06, 2025

A Manifesto for the Platform Organization

4 Beliefs and 11 Design Principles to design adaptable, evolving, and future-proof platform organizations that can thrive through the challenges...

4 Beliefs and 11 Design...

Multiple Authors

May 08, 2024

Introducing the Growth Model Canvas and an Updated Growth Model Spreadsheet template

Understand how to measure and strategize around growth. Choose the channels for customer acquisition, distribute the customer acquisition budget to...

Understand how to measure and...

Multiple Authors

June 18, 2024

How Organizational Structures Evolve: From Functional to Matrix to Platform Models

In an era of organizational evolution, businesses are shifting from traditional structures to a platform organization model. This innovative approach...

In an era of organizational...

Multiple Authors

January 15, 2024

Key Concepts and Practical steps to your first Growth Model (for a Platform or Product)

In this post, Boundaryless explains how to set up a Growth Model and why this is essential for your digital...

In this post, Boundaryless explains...

Multiple Authors

March 27, 2023

RenDanHeYi and SAFe. A side-by-side comparison

A detailed comparison of the RenDanHeYi / 3EO and the most widely adopted agile framework, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), in...

A detailed comparison of the...

Multiple Authors

November 07, 2023

Agile on steroids through the RenDanHeYi

Based on evidence that emerged through our participation at the InAgile conference in Prague, this article offers initial insights into...

Based on evidence that emerged...

Emanuele Quintarelli

July 14, 2023

A New release of the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide: Arena Scanning for Ecosystem breakdown

In this post, we present the release of a new version of the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide. The new release...

In this post, we present...

Multiple Authors

October 17, 2022

The Key Promises of Organizational Unbundling: Embracing Market-Based Organizational Models in the Product-Centric Era

What if every unit in your organization functioned autonomously? Embrace organizational unbundling and tap into the heart of innovation, resilience,...

What if every unit in...

Multiple Authors

June 06, 2023

Ecosystem-Driven Organizations: Shared Market Maps, Forcing Functions and Investing into Small Units.

What does it mean to adopt an Ecosystem-Driven organizational model that can grow organically by validating products and being driven...

What does it mean to...

Simone Cicero

September 27, 2022

Seek Growth and evolve your Platform Strategy with the Platform Growth and Product Guide

After a fairly long research process that led us to run several webinars, write a ton and test things out...

After a fairly long research...

Multiple Authors

June 27, 2022

July

Ask Me Anything about the new Platform Growth and Product Guide

In this webinar, the two main co-authors of the newly released Platform Product and Growth Guide will answer to all...

In this webinar, the two...

Apply Value Chain Analysis with Wardley Maps to identify a Platform Opportunity

In this post, we share some of the most important heuristics we use as we integrate Wardley Maps with Platform...

In this post, we share...

Simone Cicero

May 06, 2022

Bootstrapping user-owned Networks with Web3

What are the possibilities that web3, tokenomics, and the adoption of blockchain technology are enabling for founders? What are the...

What are the possibilities that...

Simone Cicero

April 12, 2022

Defining the Ecosystem Domain: Ecosystems, Arenas and Jobs-to-be-done

How to map an Ecosystem? Let’s explore how to create a manageable breakdown

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How to map an Ecosystem?...

Simone Cicero

March 04, 2022

A Platform Design Example Explained

Reshaping Value Chains, applying the Six Platform Plays to explore and design a Platform in the renewable energy context.

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Reshaping Value Chains, applying the...

Boundaryless Team

October 28, 2019

Adopt Outcome Driven Innovation and the Jobs to be Done framework within Platform Design

How to integrate Ulwick’s Jobs To Be Done theory into the platform design toolkit framework? In this post, we...

How to integrate Ulwick’s Jobs...

Simone Cicero

April 27, 2022

Value Propositions in Business Ecosystems – Products, Marketplaces, Extensions

What are the key value propositions in business ecosystems? How does a product or service bundle complement a marketplace? How...

What are the key value...

Simone Cicero

March 22, 2022

The 3 Key Challenges in making your Organization Platform-ready

Combining the unbundling of capabilities, innovation portfolio management, and entrepreneurial organization models.

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Combining the unbundling of capabilities,...

Boundaryless Team

June 18, 2021

The 7 Key Principles of Platform Design

To design Strategies that mobilize, in the XXIst Century.

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To design Strategies that mobilize,...

Boundaryless Team

August 04, 2018

The Evolving Future of the Platform Economy

How Technological trends and a new landscape of Risk will reshape the network-based economy of the next decade.

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How Technological trends and a...

Boundaryless Team

October 23, 2020

A Recap from our research on Platform Growth

A handy recap of recent research updates chronicling our steps in building a new framework to help our adopters drive...

A handy recap of recent...

Boundaryless Team

July 19, 2021

An Entrepreneurial, Ecosystem Enabling Organization

What’s emerging from understanding Haier Group: an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization, Rendanheyi, and the Ecosystem Micro-Community

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What’s emerging from understanding Haier...

Boundaryless Team

August 23, 2019

Converging towards a Common Protocol of Organizing

Why the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization may be a breakthrough in organizational development. In this essay, we will go through...

Why the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling...

Boundaryless Team

May 17, 2021

Running Inclusive & Large Scale Platform-Design Workshops

Tips to parallelize, diverge and converge with Platform Strategies with multiple teams. An overview of the Platform Design Toolkit methodology.

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Tips to parallelize, diverge and...

Multiple Authors

March 31, 2018

Ecosystemic Evolutions

Organizing Beyond Boundaries. An essay that is included in the book “Ecosystems Inc. — Understanding, harnessing and developing organizational ecosystems”.

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Organizing Beyond Boundaries. An essay...

Boundaryless Team

May 21, 2020

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations rhyme with 21C Complexity

An outline of EEEO’s key aspects and explain why this organizational approach appears to be a better fit to the...

An outline of EEEO’s key...

Boundaryless Team

September 15, 2020

Outcooperating the Competition

We often lack a shared framework, a reference business-technology architecture to build Platform-Ecosystem last movers by embracing a Long-term and...

We often lack a shared...