Transforming into a Platform Provider: Strategic Options for Industrial Smart Service Providers Beverungen, Daniel Kundisch, Dennis Wünderlich, Nancy Smart service Platform Interdisciplinary research Manufacturing company Smart service provider Platform economics Information systems Multi-sided markets Business-to-business (B2B) markets ddc:380 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify strategic options and challenges that arise when an industrial firm moves from providing smart service toward providing a platform. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual study takes on a multidisciplinary research perspective that integrates concepts, theories and insights from service management and marketing, information systems and platform economics. Findings The paper outlines three platform types – smart data platform, smart product platform and matching platform – as strategic options for firms that wish to evolve from smart service providers to platform providers. Research limitations/implications Investigating smart service platforms calls for launching interdisciplinary research initiatives. Promising research avenues are outlined to span boundaries that separate different research disciplines today. Practical implications Managing a successful transition from providing smart service toward providing a platform requires making significant investments in IT, platform-related capabilities and skills, as well as implement new approaches toward relationship management and brand-building. Originality/value The findings described in this paper are valuable to researchers in multiple disciplines seeking to develop and to justify theory related to platforms in industrial scenarios. Emerald Insight 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/17860 Beverungen D, Kundisch D, Wünderlich N. Transforming into a Platform Provider: Strategic Options for Industrial Smart Service Providers. <i>Journal of Service Management</i>. 2021;32(4):507-532. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-03-2020-0066">10.1108/JOSM-03-2020-0066</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1108/JOSM-03-2020-0066 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/507-532 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/160364472 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess