The implementation of business-to-business services in international markets requires careful design and planning. The book introduces a tailorable method for the internationalization of services. Each component of the method addresses a typical challenge of the international implementation of...

AbstractIn this paper we compare different approaches and show the need for systematic requirementsengineering for hybrid products beyond disciplinary boundaries. Hybrid products consist ofcombinations of hardware, software and service elements. The purpose of this paper is to report ona...

Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

More and more companies realign their competencies to offer integrated bundlesof products and services with the goal to solve customer problems (Leimeister etal. 2009). The customers are not interested in products or services per se, but theywant their problems to be solved (Böhmann und Krcmar...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...

Integrated product-service packages (hybrid products) can open new markets and target groups tocompanies. However, existing approaches to service or product development do not sufficientlyaddress simultaneous development and domain-specific issues. A very promising new field for suchbundles is...

Electronic services delivered over the Internet are gaining importance in the business world. Thisarea has seen an increase in scientific interest over the past years under the labels “Internet ofServices” and Web-service ecosystems. The paper develops a conceptual framework of actors...

As the importance of services in our society increases, so does the importance of systematic approaches to develop theseservices – commonly termed New Service Development (NSD). An increasing proportion of services are now electronicservices delivered over the Internet. The purpose of this...

E-health basically comprises health services and informationdelivered or enhanced through the Internetand related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001). The futurehealthcare system and its services, enabling e-health, arebased on the communication between all informationsystems of all participants of...

This paper focuses on the systematic development and implementation of mobile services (e.g. location-basedservices) in automobiles. It includes a design framework that represents the requirements ofautomotive service engineering (e.g., the development process for supporting location-based...