Fraunhofer IESE, as a partner in the EURIDICE consortium, contributed to a professional event with a session titled “Every Digital Ecosystem Is Different – Really? Mastering the Platform Economy with Patterns”. The session addressed one of the central challenges in digital transformation: how to design and implement digital ecosystems without always having to build platforms from scratch.
In this talk, Dr. Matthias Koch and Simon Scherr showed that digital ecosystems, despite their apparent diversity, follow recurring patterns. By making key conceptual decisions explicit – for example, who the participants are, what the core asset is, how matchmaking works, and what role fulfillment plays – it becomes possible to derive design patterns that directly shape the software architecture of platforms. On this basis, Fraunhofer IESE presented reusable building blocks for digital marketplaces, enabling organizations to move more efficiently from a business idea to a working platform prototype. Drawing an analogy to modular car manufacturing, the presentation demonstrated how complex digital systems can be assembled from standardized components rather than isolated one-off solutions.
The session targeted product managers, software architects, and decision-makers involved in the development of digital ecosystems and marketplace models and was designed as an introductory yet practice-oriented contribution. By sharing this pattern-based approach to platform design, Fraunhofer IESE supports EURIDICE’s broader mission of strengthening advanced digital skills and providing actionable frameworks for real-world digital innovation in European industry and society.
Number of participants: 65 participants
Link: https://www.oop-konferenz.de/de/programm/konferenzprogramm/details/mi-41