Service-oriented architectures are widely discussed as a design principle for application and enterprise architectures. Nevertheless, an adequate granularity of services has not yet been researched sufficiently from an economic perspective. The finer the granularity to realize the functions of a...

In recent years, manufacturing companies and service providers have moved towards offering customer-specific problem solutions. These integrated bundles usually consist of hardware, software, and service components and are called product service systems (PSS) or hybrid products. Since the...

Open source software (oss), the origins of which can be traced back to the 1950s, is software distributed with a license that allows access to its source code, free redistribution, the creation of derived works, and unrestricted use. oss applications cover most areas of consumer and business...

"Wie man Kundenanforderungen in der Produktentwicklung systematisch analysiert und managt, zeigen die Autoren in diesem Buch. Die hier vorgestellten Verfahren heben darauf ab, Komplexität in der Produktentwicklung zu reduzieren und Innovationsprozesse zu optimieren. Im Zentrum steht dabei der...