The Platform Premium
How Structure Determines Who Wins
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Most companies approach digital transformation by adding more: more systems, more teams, more dashboards, more code, more AI. In The Platform Premium, Richard Åstrand shows why the companies that win do something harder: they simplify, standardize, and focus.
Set inside a private equity-backed logistics company under pressure, the story follows Mary Voss as she is brought in to rescue NorthBridge Logistics after its largest customer prepares to leave. What first looks like a sales problem soon reveals itself as something deeper: fragmented data, hidden operational knowledge, fragile relationships, and technology built in the wrong places.
Through a fast-moving business narrative, The Platform Premium dramatizes the real leadership choices behind digital transformation: what to buy, what to build, how to turn human expertise into scalable advantage, and why AI only creates value when the structure underneath it is clear.
This is not a book about technology. It is a book about how companies structure themselves to win.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jul 4, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781291680737
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Richard Åstrand
Specifications
- Format
- EPUB
Keywords
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