How the LEGO Group Is Embarking on Architectural Path Constitution to Transform Its Information Infrastructure into a Digital Platform

Robert Lorenz Törmer

2018

Abstract

Traditional companies are increasingly turning towards platform strategies to gain speed in the development of digital value propositions and prepare for the challenges arising from digitalization. This paper reports on the digitalization journey of the LEGO Group to elaborate how brick-and-mortar companies can break away from a drifting information infrastructure and trigger its transformation into a digital platform. Conceptualizing information infrastructure evolution as path-dependent process, the case study explores how mindful deviations by enterprise architects guide installed base cultivation through collective action and trigger the creation of a new ‘platformization’ path. Additionally, the findings portrait Enterprise Architecture management as a process of socio-technical path constitution that is equally shaped by deliberate human interventions and emergent forces through path dependencies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Törmer R. (2018). How the LEGO Group Is Embarking on Architectural Path Constitution to Transform Its Information Infrastructure into a Digital Platform.In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-298-1, pages 649-656. DOI: 10.5220/0006697306490656

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis18,
author={Robert Lorenz Törmer},
title={How the LEGO Group Is Embarking on Architectural Path Constitution to Transform Its Information Infrastructure into a Digital Platform},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2018},
pages={649-656},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006697306490656},
isbn={978-989-758-298-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - How the LEGO Group Is Embarking on Architectural Path Constitution to Transform Its Information Infrastructure into a Digital Platform
SN - 978-989-758-298-1
AU - Törmer R.
PY - 2018
SP - 649
EP - 656
DO - 10.5220/0006697306490656