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Disruptive innovations confront companies with great challenges. Leading companies are losing their market position to disruptive competitors and are forced to react instantly to defend their position in the market. Companies not only lack knowledge of various strategic options that have been successfully used against disruptive attackers, they also do not know about the effects of these different strategic options on their own company. On the basis of a use case analysis, 30 companies were examined with regard to their strategic reaction on a disruptive attacker. In the evaluation of the use cases, the strategic options were grouped into clusters, from which seven master strategies could be identified. These seven master strategies were then transformed into a regulatory framework, which differentiates between reactive and proactive strategies and classifies them according to their intensity. With the help of the identified master strategies, companies will be able to identify options for action in competition with disruptive attackers, thus giving them greater chances of success in the defense of their market position. In addition, companies can use the master strategies to prepare an emergency strategy even before a disruptive attacker appears on the market, thus significantly minimizing the risk of customer loss.
The rapid developments in information and communication technology enable new bus iness models that are based on digital platforms. Marketplaces such as Amazon or Airbnb have already adapted this business model to connect previously unconnected supply-side and demand-side to conduct a business transaction via a digital platform. Due to Industrie 4.0 and the rapid technological development that comes with it, digital platforms have entered the market within the area of the mechanical engineering. Different platform types exist, such as marketplaces for machine equipment or digital data platforms for connected machines. Although numerous companies claim to offer platform-based bus iness models, they often lack knowledge on individual business model components. To close this gap, this paper structures a variety of existing platforms based on their detail characteristics. Within this paper, existing typologies of digital platforms from other industry areas are analyzed. Case study research ofplatforms within the mechanical engineering is used to adjust these typologies and create a new one for digital platforms within the mechanical engineering.