Platform Strategy

Platform strategy articulates build-versus-buy choices, shared service scope, governance, and economic models for digital and technology platforms. It balances speed of product teams with enterprise consistency and cost efficiency. Strategy connects to application rationalization and cloud landing zone design.

In Practice

Larkinized LLC facilitates executive decisions on platform funding—tax versus chargeback—and standards enforcement levels. Strategy documents link to reference architectures and pattern libraries developers actually use. Misaligned incentives undermine platform adoption regardless of technical quality.

Example

Platform strategy mandates shared observability and CI/CD pipelines while allowing product teams to choose application frameworks within standards.