[Industri Musik] Platform Complexity: Lessons from the Music Industry

Platform

A system that connects and organizes different activities or products in an ecosystem.

Platform Product

A product that meets the needs of a core group of customers but is designed for easy modification into derivatives through the addition, substitution, or removal of features.

Core Modules

Main parts of a platform that stay the same over time.

Peripheral Modules

Supporting parts of a platform that add variety and change more often.

Platform Complexity

The variety of activities and controls within a platform.

Digital Platform

An intangible software-based platform characterized by near-zero replication costs, rapid adoption potential, and layered socio-technical relationships

Non-Digital Platform

Physical systems or infrastructures, like musical instruments or notation.

Control Points

Factors like patents or copyrights that regulate how a platform is used.

Generativity

A platform’s ability to support new inventions and uses.

Features That Influence Generativity: Leverage

Helps in performing tasks

Features That Influence Generativity: Adaptability

Flexibility to be used in creative ways/ease of being built upon

Features That Influence Generativity: Ease of Mastery

Easy for broad audiences to adopt and adapt

Features That Influence Generativity: Accessibility

Can access tools (including expense and physical access)

Features That Influence Generativity: Transferability

Can share results and get an ecosystem of innovation and collaboration going

Socio-Technical Layering

The phenomenon where social and technical platforms are built upon each other, with some platforms serving as foundational layers for others.

Industry Transformation

Major industry changes caused by evolving platforms and their interactions.