Towards platform-based co-design: reconciling contextualization and the design of genericity through retrofit

Alexandre Azoulay (), Malik Terfous (), Pascal Le Masson () and Benoit Weil ()
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Alexandre Azoulay: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Malik Terfous: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pascal Le Masson: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Benoit Weil: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This study explores the challenges related to platform emergence through the lens of co-design. We focus on the double edge challenge of generification, which implies to foster both the contextualization of the platform resources and their genericity. We hypothesize co-design to be a consistent approach to conciliate these two diverging issues through ‘retrofit'. Thus, we address the following research question: how co-design practices can foster retrofit at the technical, organizational, and cognitive levels? Following an intervention-research approach, we built a case study centered on the application of an emerging data-platform focused on Earth Observation for the development of digital services for the city of Marseille. We show that co-design can foster synchronously contextualization and genericity as we identified a specific structure of co-design sessions to support contextualization as well as three mechanisms to enact retrofit towards genericity over the course of contextualization. Thereby, we contribute to platform and co-design literature, but also more fundamentally to the design theories as we unveil the degree of genericity as a consistent dimension to structure the solution and problem spaces.

Keywords: Platform; Co-design; Space data; Digital transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06-17
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Published in R&D Management conference 2024, Magnusson, Mats; Engwall, Mats, Jun 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

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