April 2026
Intermediate
624 pages
12h 3m
English
book
Rewired, 2nd Edition
by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Robert Levin, Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky
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CHAPTER 17The platforms that power the enterprise
Most senior executives can recite their strategy, P&L performance, org structure, and talent agenda in their sleep. But very few can clearly articulate the state of their technology platforms—the backbone that determines how fast the business can innovate, how reliably it can operate, and how defensible its competitive position truly is. And if you don’t understand it, you can’t govern it, invest in it, or expect it to deliver.
Well-architected platforms accelerate everything: product launches, automation, data reuse, AI deployment, resilience, and more. Weak platforms slow everything down and tax the business with hidden costs, in the form of complexity, fragility, long cycle times, and dependence on a few heroic individuals who “know how the system works.”
If you aspire to be a CEO—or remain an effective one—you must treat your technology platforms with the same rigor and ownership as your strategy and organization design.
What are platforms anyway and why do they matter?
“Platform” may be one of the most overused word in ...
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