| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| About the Authors | 11 |
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| 1: Background and the Necessity to Build a Digital Business Leadership | 13 |
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| 1.1 Digital Darwinism and the Redistribution of the World | 14 |
| 1.2 Drivers of Digital Change | 19 |
| 1.3 From Classic Nondigital Business to Digital Ecosystems in the Internet of Everything | 32 |
| 1.4 Position and Fields of Action of the German Economy on the Digital Map | 46 |
| References | 52 |
| 2: Eight Areas of Action to Build a Digital Business Leadership | 54 |
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| 2.1 Guidelines for Developing a Vision for the Digital Age | 54 |
| 2.1.1 Managerial Visions in the Digital Age | 55 |
| 2.1.2 Anchoring Vision Design in Strategic Management | 57 |
| 2.1.3 From Corporate Purpose to a Vision | 62 |
| 2.1.4 Creating a Viable Digital Vision | 67 |
| 2.2 Concepts for the Development of Business Model Innovations | 70 |
| 2.2.1 Business Models and Their Perspectives | 71 |
| 2.2.2 Basic Types and Patterns of Business Models | 73 |
| 2.2.3 From the Existing Business Model to Business Model Innovation | 81 |
| 2.2.4 Incremental Digital Optimization of Existing Business Models | 87 |
| 2.2.5 Realizing Business Model Innovations with Considerable Innovation Levels | 92 |
| 2.3 How to Design a Digital Organization | 98 |
| 2.3.1 Understanding Digital Change as a Task of Innovation Management | 98 |
| 2.3.2 Anchoring the Network Organization in Top Management | 111 |
| 2.3.3 Digitally Aligning the Entire Organization | 114 |
| 2.3.4 New Organizational Concepts for a New, Digital-Centered World | 120 |
| 2.4 From Product to Process: The Relevance of Services | 124 |
| 2.4.1 Introductory Remarks on the Growing Importance of Services | 124 |
| 2.4.2 Smart Services as Digitized Services | 125 |
| 2.4.3 The Theoretical Foundation of Services | 126 |
| 2.4.4 Service Transformation: From Product Manufacturers to Service Providers | 130 |
| 2.4.5 Development of Services with Service Design and Design Thinking | 133 |
| 2.5 Open Innovation: How Customers Are Integrated into Innovation Processes | 140 |
| 2.5.1 Backdrop for Open Innovation Concepts | 140 |
| 2.5.2 Fundamentals of Open Innovation Concepts | 142 |
| 2.5.3 Fields of Action for Open Innovation Concepts | 145 |
| 2.6 User Centralization: The Needs of a Digital Customer Journey | 151 |
| 2.6.1 Current Challenges in the Purchasing Behavior of Consumers | 151 |
| 2.6.2 Capturing and Designing the Customer Journey | 155 |
| 2.6.3 Management of Customer Touchpoints | 157 |
| 2.6.4 Customer Experience Management | 167 |
| 2.7 IT as Enabler of Digitized Business Processes, Products, and Services | 170 |
| 2.7.1 The Web as a Platform | 171 |
| 2.7.2 From Open Industry Standards to Open-Source Software and Versatile Systems | 176 |
| 2.7.3 Technological Innovation Creates New Opportunities for Digital Leaders | 183 |
| 2.8 Controlling of a Digitalized Organization | 187 |
| 2.8.1 Framework Conditions for the Design of Controlling | 187 |
| 2.8.2 Transformation of Controlling | 195 |
| References | 201 |
| 3: Change Management: Shaping Change Successfully | 208 |
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| 3.1 Fundamentals of Change Management | 208 |
| 3.2 Instruments and Processes of Change Management | 217 |
| 3.3 The Position of Employees in Change Processes | 222 |
| References | 229 |
| 4: Best Practices in Building a Digital Business Leadership | 230 |
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| 4.1 Axel Springer: A Publisher in Transition Towards Being a Digital Publisher | 230 |
| 4.1.1 The Company Axel Springer SE | 231 |
| 4.1.2 Corporate Culture at Axel Springer: Three Action-Guiding Values | 233 |
| 4.1.3 Change Management at Axel Springer Move | 236 |
| 4.2 XING: Digital DNA in Action | 239 |
| 4.2.1 The Company XING | 240 |
| 4.2.2 What Makes XING a Digital Business Leader? | 241 |
| 4.2.3 Vision, Culture, and Leadership of a Digital Business Leader | 241 |
| 4.2.4 How the Vision Is Implemented by a Strong Leadership Personality | 245 |
| 4.3 ImmobilienScout24: Digital Titan | 251 |
| 4.3.1 The Company ImmobilienScout24 | 252 |
| 4.3.2 A Human Being with Face and History: Added to the Facts | 253 |
| 4.3.2.1 Stefan (23): The First Searcher and Digital Native | 253 |
| 4.3.2.2 Andreas (45) and Silke (42): The Nest Builders | 255 |
| 4.3.2.3 Angelika (59): The Predictive Senior | 256 |
| 4.3.3 ImmobilienScout24 and Big Data: Product Development Along the Customer Journey | 259 |
| 4.3.4 Persona Data, Start-Ups, and What Next? | 263 |
| 4.4 Dalia Research: Silicon Valley in Berlin | 264 |
| 4.4.1 The Idea | 265 |
| 4.4.2 Massive Scalability with Open-Source Software | 269 |
| 4.4.3 Response | 270 |
| References | 270 |
| 5: Beginning Is the Most Difficult: Our Call to Action | 272 |
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| Reference | 274 |