The Platform Premium

The Platform Premium

How Structure Determines Who Wins

ByRichard Åstrand

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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
Jun 8, 2026
Language
English
ISBN
9781291681017
Category
Business & Economics
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Richard Åstrand

Specifications

Pages
273
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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