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Improving the creation process of digital platforms : a design pattern reference model

Vries, Ernst de (2022) Improving the creation process of digital platforms : a design pattern reference model.

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Abstract:Digital platforms designs cover multiple domains that cause complexity in the creation process, because there are many elements in these domains that have to be identified. The complexity and the choices made can cause misalignment between the different domains, like business-IT. We identified that the main cause is a lack of knowledge by the creators of digital platforms. Therefore, we created a reference model that transfers knowledge about the motivation, business, application, and data domains. With the support of literature, we identified relevant concepts of a digital platform and created Enterprise Architectural patterns (EA) in each domain with the ArchiMate language. These patterns describe the choices one has to consider when creating a digital platform for exchanging services. In the application domain, we also focus on the alignment between business and IT. To overcome the obstacle that ArchiMate is not widely known, we created a visualization tool that enables natural language to create viewpoints with the reference model. We validated the reference model with a case study at a company called Castlab that wants to create a digital platform to provide a casting on-demand service and analyzed an existing digital platform to validate the generalizability.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Clients:
Castlab, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:54 computer science, 85 business administration, organizational science
Programme:Business Information Technology MSc (60025)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90800
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