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...

Eine möglichst vollständige Erfüllung von Kundenanforderungen und eine Differenzierungvon Wettbewerbern sind zwei Faktoren, die produzierende oder dienstleistungsanbietendeUnternehmen beeinflussen (Böhmann und Krcmar 2007,Leimeister und Glauner 2008). Deswegen ändern viele Unternehmen ihre...

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...

Die Deutsche Gesundheitstelematik startet im Laufe des Jahres 2009 in die Testphase für Online- Anwendungen [1]. Neben den freiwilligen oder verpflichtenden Anwendungen, die von der gematik vorgegeben wurden [2], soll die Telematikinfrastruktur eine sichere Applikationsplattform für...