IT-service providers shall achieve both cost reduction in IT-operations and customer individuality in service agreements. This article suggests applying the well known principle of mass customization to balance individuality and standardization in service agreements. Dependent on the commitment...

IT-Dienstleister sind zunehmend gefordert, ihr Serviceportfolio konsequentauf die IT-Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen der Kunden auszurichten.Dadurch können Diversifikation sowie Transparenz in den IT-Ausgaben und ihremstrategischen Wertbeitrag beim Kunden erreicht werden. Für eine...

IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification as well as transparency in costs andservices vis-à-vis the customer to be achieved. Such services however, appear too...

Rising external competition and cost-pressures compel internal service providers to re-define their customerserviceapproach. Providing value propositions to the intra-firm end-users instead of provisioning technicalresources becomes a necessity to facilitate transparency in costs and customer...

IT-Dienstleister sehen sich mit steigenden Kundenanforderungen, Kostendruck und vergleichbarem Wettbewerb konfrontiert. Disruptive Marktkräfte im IT-Servicemarkt wie der Wandel vom Verkäufer- zum Käufermarkt, der technologische Wandel und Low cost labor verstärken den Druck auf die...

[Introduction] The diffusion of mobile broadband, which use cellular mobile communication technology, is at an advanced state in many countries. It is, however, unclear how mobile broadband diffusion affects other broadband services, and fixed broadband access in particular. Following the...

Purpose – Processes in customer relationship management (CRM) are classified as knowledge‐intensive processes. This paper seeks to provide a framework for knowledge management (KM) support of CRM processes and to show how this framework was applied in three action research cases....

Purpose – The bursting of the e‐bubble affected expectations with regard to mobile initiatives and willingness to invest in them very negatively. Business managers request detailed and thorough analyses prior to engaging in mobile initiatives. The paper aims to present a method, with which...