What ' s a Platform Go Live?

As we plan our go-lives for the Mayo Clinic Platform, we recently discussed how best to measure what constitutes a go-live.First, let ' s review what Platform thinking (technology, policy, people and process) can do for an organization.*Facilitates collaborations and partnerships with external entities (i.e. participants on the Platform benefit from the presence of other participants)*Connects assets (data, algorithms, expertise) with customers in ethical, privacy protecting ways*Supports the development of ideas into products that may be licensed, spun out, or sold as services*Has turnkey technology and policy approaches that empower innovators to incubate/accelerate their ideas with agility, such as assistance with validation/FDA clearance assessment or other common regulatory hurdlesSuccess can be measured in many ways - impact on patient care, the boldness of the innovation, value creation for all participants, public perception of the work, and time to market.  Value creation could be licensing, transactional revenue, or equity growth.Different audiences may have different perceptions of go-lives.   While it would be tempting to conflate general availability (GA) of our Platform offerings with go-live, we believe that the Platform won ' t be live until an " active customer " or stakeholder actually uses what we have to offer.With these ideas in mind, here are few straw definitions for the concept of go-live for the Mayo Platform businesses. 1.  T...
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