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Two major trends are driving many companies in the manufacturing industry to rethink and reconfigure their business logic: the trends towards applying a service dominant business logic, and the trends towards collecting and using information about the market life cycle of products. The pursuit of market lifecycle information has lately been one that is driven mostly by tremendous developments in the area of the Internet of Things and information system integration. Companies in the manufacturing industry are reconfiguring their value chains, tending towards a higher degree of service orientation. This transformation requires an understanding of the principles behind offering additional value through industrial product service systems. The design of an adequate information architecture and the subsequent management model are the key factors for a successful implementation. This article focuses on how information gathering, analysis, and the meaningful use of information have been linked to the success of those companies within the German manufacturing industry which have made the transformation towards service-orientation. On the basis of an empirical study, five success factors with a significant impact on either innovation performance and/or operational performance are identified. These findings are enhanced to derive guidelines for an adequate information architecture. The guidelines are underpinned by best practices of prosperous companies with a strong product-service-orientation. Links between best practice application and performance are analyzed, and significant relations are identified.
Das Verbundprojekt „BIRUZEM – Nachhaltige Bildung von Arbeitskräften der Zementindustrie in Russland“ zielte darauf ab, den Konsortialpartnern den Einstieg in die Qualifizierung von an- und ungelernten Arbeitskräften sowie Facharbeitern der russischen Zementindustrie zu ermöglichen. Im Einzelnen umfasst das Projekt BIRUZEM die folgenden fünf Zielstellungen: Zum einen das Erschließen des russischen sowie angrenzender Märkte der Zementherstellung für den Export deutscher Aus- und Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen. Zum anderen eine Konzeptentwicklung, um die Weiterbildungsdienstleistungen im Zielland nachhaltig anzubieten sowie durchzuführen. Eine weitere Zielstellung bestand darin, die Maßnahmen und Programme zur Weiterbildung von gewerblich-technisch Beschäftigten, Vorabeitern, Meistern und Ingenieuren, auf die lokalen Gegebenheiten – wie beispielsweise Kultur, vorhandene Technologien, Infrastruktur, Gesetzeslage – in Russland anzupassen. Anschließend wurden die im Laufe des Projektes konzipierten Bildungsdienstleistungen für in Russland tätige Zementhersteller in den Bereichen Instandhaltung sowie Mess- und Verfahrenstechnik angeboten und durchgeführt. Die fünfte Zielstellung umfasste den Transfer des Projektergebnisses auf andere Problemstellungen und auf weitere Anwendungsgebiete, wie beispielsweise das des Steine-Erden-Sektors.
One of the major challenges facing today´s manufacturing industry is to differentiate from competition in a highly globalized world. As a consequence to the increasing competitive pressure, many companies transform their product centered business models towards service based business models to differentiate from competition. However, the transformation is often underestimated regarding its complexity and its management challenges to behavioral change.
As a consequence lots of transformation initiatives fail. Besides difficulties in structuring the magnitude of changes in processes and structures, many transformation managers do not perceive the risk of employee resistance against changes, which is one of the key factors causing the failure of transformation. The objective of this paper is to enhance the existing body of research on manufacturer´s organizational transformation towards Product-Service Systems. More detailed, the objective is to develop new knowledge to support the management during the decision-making process in the way how and by means of which instruments the change of behavior can be supported when transforming from a manufacturer to a solution.
We developed a reference framework which structures and defines the relevant dimensions of behavioral change. The identification and validation of the success factors build the second component of our research. We conducted an empirical investigation in the German manufacturing industry and got 79 data sets.
Structural equation modelling was applied for the analyses and the validation of the hypotheses. By this analysis we linked management practice with employee behavior and transformational success variables. On the basis of the gained insights decisions can be made concerning the successful transformation from manufacturer to a solution-oriented service provider.