This book develops an interwoven framework for the strategic and financial valuation of digital business designs and platform companies which became game changers for a multitude of ecosystems in the 21st century. But, also incumbents of traditional industries are challenged by those digital natives and have therefore either to revitalize their business design or facing the risk to be marginalized. The business design twin of innovation is resilience to create lasting competitive advantage and capture value for the post-pandemic world of the 20s. The ultimate idea of the book rests on the hypothesis that only the combination of business design analytics - 10C Business Design and the 8 strategic levers of platform strength - with intense financial modeling - Reverse DCF - enables a true understanding of the competitive advantage and value of such business designs. Based on a tailored strategic-financial conceptual framework a set of high-profile, new case studies will highlight the working principles and application of the concept.

Das Lehrbuch bietet ein ganzheitliches M&A-Referenzmodell für die Erfassung von Wert und Transaktionsrationalität in dynamischen Ökosystemen in den 2020er Jahren. Das digitalisierte End-to-End-M&A-Prozessdesign verwendet fünf Prozessmodule. Es fördert den vollen Umfang digitaler Werkzeuge und beschreibt, wie diese für die Gestaltung von Geschäftsmodellinnovationen und die Revitalisierung von Unternehmensportfolios eingesetzt werden können und umgekehrt. Dieses Lehrbuch wurde für Universitätskurse in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz empfohlen und entwickelt.

This book develops an interwoven framework for the strategic and financial valuation of digital business designs and platform companies which became game changers for a multitude of ecosystems in the 21st century. But, also incumbents of traditional industries are challenged by those digital natives and have therefore either to revitalize their business design or facing the risk to be marginalized. The business design twin of innovation is resilience to create lasting competitive advantage and capture value for the post-pandemic world of the 20s. The ultimate idea of the book rests on the hypothesis that only the combination of business design analytics - 10C Business Design and the 8 strategic levers of platform strength - with intense financial modeling - Reverse DCF - enables a true understanding of the competitive advantage and value of such business designs. Based on a tailored strategic-financial conceptual framework a set of high-profile, new case studies will highlight the working principles and application of the concept.

The textbook provides a holistic M&A reference model for capturing value and transaction rational in dynamic eco-systems in the 2020s. The digitalized End-to-End M&A Process Design applies five process modules. It fosters the full-scope of digital tools and describes how it could be applied for shaping business model innovations and revitalize corporate portfolios and vice versa.This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Der Autor zeigt, wie die moderne Volkswirtschaftslehre die raumliche Wirtschaftsstruktur erklart und welchen bedeutenden Einfluss die Industriepolitik spielt. Im Ergebnis rat der Autor ab, die Industriepolitik fur raumliche Strukturziele einzusetzen."