This document discusses the need for companies transitioning to product-service systems to define modular service offerings that can be provided across multiple product lines. It proposes a new method for defining service modules that consist of standardized services that can be leveraged for different products. The method builds on existing research on product modularity and platforms to extend the concept of modularity to integrated product-service systems. Defining modular services could help companies provide standardized service offerings more efficiently at scale, similar to how product modularity enables variety through reusable product modules.
Data-Driven Simulation-Enhanced optimization of Service operationsSudhendu Rai
This paper describes a systematic six-step data-driven simulation-based methodology for optimizing people-based service systems on a large distributed scale that exhibit high variety and variability. The methodology is exemplified
through its application within the printing services industry where it has been successfully deployed by Xerox Corporation across small, mid-sized and large print shops generating over $250 million in profits across the customer value chain. Each
step of the methodology consisting of innovative concepts co-development and testing in partnership with customers, development of software and hardware tools to implement the innovative concepts, establishment of work-process and practices for customer-engagement and service implementation, creation of training and infrastructure for large scale deployment, integration of the innovative offering within the framework of existing corporate offerings and lastly the monitoring and deployment of the financial and operational metrics for estimating the return-on investment and the continual renewal of the offering are described in detail.
Introductory lecture on service innovation originally given to master students in an innovation and entrepreneurship course. Full video lecture available at: http://multimedie.adm.ntnu.no/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=e85576dd66ee4b8ebfa56923e262d9f3
Data-Driven Simulation-Enhanced optimization of Service operationsSudhendu Rai
This paper describes a systematic six-step data-driven simulation-based methodology for optimizing people-based service systems on a large distributed scale that exhibit high variety and variability. The methodology is exemplified
through its application within the printing services industry where it has been successfully deployed by Xerox Corporation across small, mid-sized and large print shops generating over $250 million in profits across the customer value chain. Each
step of the methodology consisting of innovative concepts co-development and testing in partnership with customers, development of software and hardware tools to implement the innovative concepts, establishment of work-process and practices for customer-engagement and service implementation, creation of training and infrastructure for large scale deployment, integration of the innovative offering within the framework of existing corporate offerings and lastly the monitoring and deployment of the financial and operational metrics for estimating the return-on investment and the continual renewal of the offering are described in detail.
Introductory lecture on service innovation originally given to master students in an innovation and entrepreneurship course. Full video lecture available at: http://multimedie.adm.ntnu.no/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=e85576dd66ee4b8ebfa56923e262d9f3
To “innovate for sustainability” we need to go beyond process, product, and organizational innovation into strategic (business model) innovation and normative value innovation. Value innovation builds on the introduction of new normative orientations into an existing business ecosystem. Our work delineates a new theoretical approach that is illustrated with case studies on different modes of sustainability innovation. We exemplify the approach through a case study of a stakeholder dialogue to establish a sustainable energy region in northern Germany and contrast this case against examples of innovation for sustainability on strategic and instrumental management levels.
Services have rapidly become a central topic of both concern and interest in research and business. Both the public and the private sector are facing increasing demand, cost, and quality challenges in their attempts to deliver services effectively and efficiently. The changing structure of the population, growing competition and mobility through globalisation, and new opportunities for services’ digitalisation are among the factors forcing us to re-knit the web of services needed for enabling a sustainable operation environment for companies, providing citizens with adequate conditions for good quality of life, and protecting our environment from overload caused by human activity.
This collection of highlights of VTT’s service research illustrates the versatility of service research. Service research has become a theme under which synthesis of traditionally separate research domains thrives. These range from industrial manufacturing to safety and security, from information and communication technologies to the building sector, and from media studies to public-sector innovations. Service research brings researchers from many disciplines together to discuss innovation, design, development, and adoption of services in diverse domains, enabled by emerging technological breakthroughs.
Because successful Innovation is new to so much of the business, it makes us think about how to manage it with a "new" process. But ultimately, the secret to making innovation really meaningful could lie in teaching the new dogs old tricks.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
To “innovate for sustainability” we need to go beyond process, product, and organizational innovation into strategic (business model) innovation and normative value innovation. Value innovation builds on the introduction of new normative orientations into an existing business ecosystem. Our work delineates a new theoretical approach that is illustrated with case studies on different modes of sustainability innovation. We exemplify the approach through a case study of a stakeholder dialogue to establish a sustainable energy region in northern Germany and contrast this case against examples of innovation for sustainability on strategic and instrumental management levels.
Services have rapidly become a central topic of both concern and interest in research and business. Both the public and the private sector are facing increasing demand, cost, and quality challenges in their attempts to deliver services effectively and efficiently. The changing structure of the population, growing competition and mobility through globalisation, and new opportunities for services’ digitalisation are among the factors forcing us to re-knit the web of services needed for enabling a sustainable operation environment for companies, providing citizens with adequate conditions for good quality of life, and protecting our environment from overload caused by human activity.
This collection of highlights of VTT’s service research illustrates the versatility of service research. Service research has become a theme under which synthesis of traditionally separate research domains thrives. These range from industrial manufacturing to safety and security, from information and communication technologies to the building sector, and from media studies to public-sector innovations. Service research brings researchers from many disciplines together to discuss innovation, design, development, and adoption of services in diverse domains, enabled by emerging technological breakthroughs.
Because successful Innovation is new to so much of the business, it makes us think about how to manage it with a "new" process. But ultimately, the secret to making innovation really meaningful could lie in teaching the new dogs old tricks.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
Marja Toivonen from Aalto University is presenting at the First National Annual Services Innovation Conference, November 2, 2010, organized by Exser and partners. See http://www.exser.nl/jaarcongres/ for more information.
To provide an insight into service innovation:
- Service innovation within product-service systems
- Key concepts for service innovation
- Some tools for service innovation
- Reflections
The insights are based on having developed and delivered services in an industrial environment and now leading research in product-service system innovation.
Product and Services Design & DevelopmentRaj Vardhan
This PPT is about product design and development and it's the significance, advantages and disadvantages and its impacts on sales and performance of the product or services of the company.
VALUES ORIENTATION IN BUSINESS THROUGH SERVICE INNOVATION: A CONCEPTUAL FRAME...ijmvsc
Service innovation evinced as the most discernible facet of service literature. It has been viewed as a strong mechanism to create value for customers, communities, business alliances and society. The emergence of service-dominant logic has brought about a radical change in terms of how value is created through service innovation. S-D logic only considers the value-in-use that is the financial value. Consequently the focus of service innovation research has remained on profit maximization only. Accordingly there is a paucity of research directed towards values-based service innovation. Couched on this notion of valuesbased service, this research will shed light on the service innovation paradigm. The theoretical dimension has been drawn from S-D logic and linked with the concept of triple-bottom line that encompasses the acuity of sustainability. A conceptual framework has been developed with some propositions. This study further suggests that more empirical research is required to further investigate values-based service innovation.