Platform Thinking in Incumbent Firms: From Concept to Capability

Leijon, Erik; Svenheden, Joanda; Svahn, Fredrik

doi:10.24251/hicss.2017.580

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“…Hanelt et al (2020) recently identified three major challenges industrial firms are facing when engaging in platform ecosystems: learning the new rules of platform ecosystem strategies, developing the internal readiness for platform ecosystems, and coping with the emerging hybridity challenge. The first two challenges refer to the necessary shift in thinking from a business model focused on product sales and value-adding services to a platform business model where the locus of innovation and value creation is shifted to external actors (Leijon et al 2017). However, given the platforms' purpose to collect and aggregate data from physical industrial assets, incumbents will be forced ''to always keep one foot in their established way of thinking and organizing'' (Hanelt et al 2020, p. 13).…”

Section: Industrial Incumbents Vs Platform Nativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Industrial Platforms

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Section: Industrial Incumbents Vs Platform Nativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2021

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“…[19]. While the characteristics and mechanisms of platforms and their ecosystems are broadly studied, the transformation of existing technical infrastructure for platform ecosystems is less so [20,21] and was just recently picked up by research (e.g. [2]).…”

Section: Digital Platform Ecosystemsmentioning

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Barriers of applying Government as a Platform in Practice: Evidence from Germany

Kuhn¹,

Buchinger²,

Balta³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Government as a Platform (GaaP) is a promising approach to the digital transformation of the public sector. GaaP aims at the development of efficient and user-friendly services by exploiting platform principles such as openness, modularization and cocreation. Hence, GaaP claims to deliver a new level of stakeholder participation in the production of public services. However, the success of GaaP is arguably bound to the context of a country. To address the potential impact of a country's context, the goal of this paper is to identify barriers and measures to overcome them in the application of GaaP in the federal context of Germany. We conduct a literature review and investigate a use case of a German digital government agency by means of documents, expert interviews and workshops. The agency applies GaaP to its architecture management of the federal IT infrastructure. We find five barriers and three measures to overcome. We conclude by discussing implications for theory and practice.

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“…As established businesses move towards platform-based smart services and business models, they need a new mindset to master this transformation. Such a mindset is often described as "platform thinking" (Leijon et al 2017). Similarly, there is an increasing awareness of the implications of ecosystems for firms' strategies (Adner 2017), requiring what could be named "ecosystem thinking".…”

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Transitioning to Platform-based Services and Business Models in a B2B Environment

Matzner¹,

Pauli²,

Marx³

et al. 2021

SMR

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Given the considerable success of companies such as Apple, Amazon or Airbnb, the term platform is on everyone’s lips today. Accordingly, platforms have long since also found their way into service science. However, mastering the transition from established product-sales-based offerings to platform-based services and business models comes with a multitude of challenges. In a B2B context, incumbent companies need to carefully evaluate how they can benefit from the establishment of platforms, especially in light of the effects on their existing business models and ties to other actors. Hence, we invited scholars with different backgrounds to provide viewpoints on the opportunities and challenges of the transition to platform-based services and business models in a B2B environment. The individual commentaries provide various insights on how to conduct this transition and benefit from it successfully. To do so, they contrast different approaches for establishing and governing ecosystems around platforms, discuss B2B-specific pitfalls and opportunities of platform business models, uncover the supporting role of platforms for smart service development, and stress the importance of platform and ecosystem thinking as a necessary mindset.

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Platform Thinking in Incumbent Firms: From Concept to Capability

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Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Digital Industrial Platforms

Digital Industrial Platforms

Barriers of applying Government as a Platform in Practice: Evidence from Germany

Transitioning to Platform-based Services and Business Models in a B2B Environment

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