Ista CEO Hagen Lessing explains why he believes every company can benefit from adopting an agile-at-scale management system.
What Is a Digital Platform?
To develop a digital platform, first you must understand what a digital platform is. The characteristics of digital platforms include:
- Data can be liberated from old, inflexible legacy core systems.
- Data can be owned by the business, not IT, which is critical to prioritizing and driving business use cases.
- The business side can roll out new use cases independent of IT’s decisions about how and at what pace to upgrade the core.
- New digital services can be delivered every few weeks, powered by artificial intelligence and leveraging open-source software and cloud services.
- Differentiating engineering capabilities can be re-shored and built in-house, improving time to value.
Our Approach to Data and Digital Platform
It has only recently become feasible to build the digital platform and smart business layers separately from the existing core, thanks to multiple advances in SaaS, PaaS, cloud computing, low code platforms, and the open-source community.
We bring unique capabilities and deep expertise to data and digital platform strategy and development. Our data and digital platform consultants—including IT architects, data integration and migration experts, and technology and cloud specialists—work with clients on:
- Data Strategy. Developing a structured and substantiated view of the value that data can generate for the company—and a roadmap to achieve it.
- Data Governance. Creating a target operating model for data management and analytics, tailored to the needs and culture of the organization.
- Legacy ERP. Migrating away from legacy ERP platforms—and building next-generation data and digital platforms.
Our Work with Clients on Data and Digital Platforms
We have helped many of our clients build and realize the benefits of digital platforms as part of their digital transformations. Examples include:
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July 19, 2023
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June 21, 2023
Adriana Nuneva, chief digital officer of CWS Group, explains how the company’s shift to a holistic, data-driven approach emboldened the company's growing sales force, sparking a massive boost in productivity.
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May 17, 2023
BCG X and Orange Built a Customer-Centric Marketing Ecosystem
Replace product-centric marketing with an AI-driven, personalized strategy to reach the right customer with the right offer at the right time, no matter the channel.
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August 3, 2022
How Citizens Is Competing—and Winning—Against Fintechs
Michael Ruttledge, CIO of Citizens, explains how a digital transformation has allowed the company to compete against fast-moving startups.
Our Solutions for Digital Platforms
BCG’s proprietary digital maturity assessments enable companies to benchmark against peers and develop a rock-solid data and digital platform strategy.
BCG’s Digital Acceleration Index
Enables companies to conduct a quick, objective, outside-in assessment of their current
digital maturity compared with peers.
BCG’s Digital Acceleration Index
BCG’s Data Capability Maturity Survey
Assesses seven data capabilities to help companies design better digital strategies and compete more effectively as data-driven organizations.
BCG’s Data Capability Maturity Survey
BCG’s Rapid Assessment of Data and Digital Platform Architecture
Offers a high-impact, two-week exercise to identify technology gaps that must be addressed to achieve data and digital platform excellence.
BCG’s Rapid Assessment of Data and Digital Platform Architecture
BCG’s Data Governance Maturity Assessment
Informs actions and priorities to further mature data governance capabilities.
BCG’s Data Governance Maturity Assessment
Our Insights on Digital Platforms
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August 19, 2021
Data and Digital Platform: Double Your Digital Transformation Power
Now is the time to let go of common assumptions around digital transformation. Replace these five common myths to unlock value from your digital transformation.
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December 6, 2024
Companies Can Generate Value by Improving Their Data
Dealing with data quality issues at the source lets businesses start with a strong foundation and make the most of GenAI, DQC’s Michael Spira explains.
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February 6, 2024
For many companies, data governance is already a pain point, the work too manual and tedious. Generative AI increases the burden but, smartly applied, can reduce it instead.
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December 6, 2024
Driving Innovation with Data: Amazon’s Formula for AI-Enhanced Growth
Unlocking the power of data through AI, a layered digital platform approach empowers businesses like AWS to drive customer value, long-term growth, and transformative innovation.
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August 19, 2021
Too many digital transformation programs don't deliver the hoped-for strategic value—especially stronger resilience amid relentless disruption. To beat those odds, companies must view their technology through a decidedly different lens. Here's how.
Meet Our Data and Digital Platform Consulting Team
Our data and digital platform consultants and industry experts help clients create the foundation for a successful digital transformation. Here are some of our experts on the topic.
