How the LEGO Group Is Embarking on Architectural Path Constitution to Transform Its Information Infrastructure into a Digital Platform

Process Innovation with Analytics in Manufacturing: Exploration through Demonstrator Development

“…The peripheral applications rely on the platform core for functionality, which it accesses through well-defined interfaces or boundary resources . Whereas initial interest in digital platforms was on externally oriented platforms focused on drawing on the innovation capabilities of external actors, research has recently focused on platforms as an organizing model for corporate digital infrastructures to enable innovation Törmer, 2018;Vestues & Rolland, 2021). In this arrangement, heavyweight IT systems in the digital infrastructure are turned into platforms by the development of boundary resources, such as APIs or service buses that facilitate access to data and IT functionality in the core .…”