This position paper investigates the major internal and external factors that could facilitate or hinder the adoption of digital platforms by European organizations across four sectors of Manufacturing, Energy, Agri-food and Healthcare. The paper also provides a broader cross-domain perspective of such drivers and barriers that are not sector-specific but rather common and existent among different sectors.

The paper has been developed under the coordination and leadership of Task Force 4 lead by IDC of the Horizon 2020 project “OPEN DEI- Aligning Reference Architectures, Open Platforms, and Large-Scale Pilots in Digitalizing European Industry” with a solid collaboration of more than 30 experts of digital transformation and digital platforms representing more than 20 organizations from 10 Horizon 2020 projects and related initiatives.

The paper provides a set of recommendation to address the defined barriers and to facilitate and accelerate the uptake of digital platforms across European organizations in different sectors.