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Pricing is one of the most important, but underestimated tools, to enhance a company's profitability. Especially in the furniture sector, customers place a special interest in cost-efficient products and easy processes. Individualised and sustainable furniture can help to create a unique selling point and deliver real value to the customers. Therefore, a platform to create designs together is needed and can involve several stakeholders in the design and production phase. However, in order to include several stakeholders, the pricing and revenue model need to reflect individual needs and be a benefit to all. In this paper, the initial situation and potential revenue model options will be presented. Furthermore, multiple scenarios for practical use will be discovered and an overview given.
The use of chatbots has hardly been established in B2B companies to date and involves various challenges. The goal of this paper is to identify the biggest barriers to the successful implementation of chatbots in B2B customer service and to develop measures to overcome them. The barriers are identified by conducting expert interviews within the framework of Eisenhardt's case study research. These are examined through a socio-technical analysis focusing on people, technology, and organization. By means of systematic literature research and in-depth interviews with German chatbot providers and customers of chatbots, measures for overcoming the barriers are identified. Using interviews with experts from German chatbot providers, the responsible stakeholders of each measure according to the RASCI Responsibility Matrix are determined. A total of 46 implementation barriers and 100 measures to overcome these barriers are identified. The study shows that there are major barriers in the areas of people, technology, and organization of a socio-technical system that can cause the implementation of a chatbot to fail. A holistic view is therefore essential. The results provide firms with a guideline on how to overcome potential barriers during chatbot implementation in B2B customer service.
Industrial companies are moving to a solution driven business by offering smart product service systems (Smart PSS). In addition to an existing portfolio of physical goods and technical services, companies develop new digital services and combine all three offerings to an integrated digital solution business. While the development of new digital services does not pose any major challenges for companies, the successful sale of Smart PSS does. Due to changing customer requirements and value propositions of a solution, the sale of Smart PSS requires new design principles for the sales organization compared to the simple sale of physical goods or technical services. While there are already many publications on the topic of industrial sales in research, the description of Smart PSS in particular represents a new field of research. The combination of both topics is therefore not only interesting from a theoretical point of view, but also has a particularly high practical relevance and impact for industrial companies. This paper therefore describes on the one hand, which characteristics can be used to derive customer requirements for Smart PSS and on the other hand, which effects these requirements have on the sales organization of the industrial company. The design principles give recommendations for the organizational structure, the resources, the information systems and the culture of the company depending on the targeted customer type. In order to identify and describe both the customer requirements and the design principles, two morphological boxes were developed based on a literature research and semi-structured interviews with industrial companies. The paper gives an outlook on the different characteristics of the design recommendations and describes first best practices for the successful transformation of the sales organization.
Competitive differentiation in the manufacturing sector is no longer based on product and service innovations alone but on the ability to monetize the usage phase of products and services. To this end, manufacturers are increasingly looking at so-called subscription business models as a way of supplementing the traditional sale of products and services. Since supplier success in the subscription business is directly dependent on customer success, the setup and expansion of a so-called Customer Success Management (CSM) is required. While CSM has already been established in the software industry for several years, companies in the manufacturing sector are often still in the conceptual phase of a CSM, parallel to the setup and expansion of their subscription business. Therefore, this paper aims to support the set-up of a CSM by providing a reference data model, based on case study research, that can be used to support the organizational or daily CSM tasks and to serve as a blueprint for conceptualizing CSM-specific IT systems.
Service Engineering Models
(2019)
Since the field of service engineering emerged in the late 20th century, the service industry has undergone drastic changes. Among the reasons for these changes is the increasing digitalization, which has made it difficult for companies to successfully develop new service offerings. While numerous service engineering models are available to provide guidance during the design of new services, many of them cannot keep up with the requirements of today’s economic environment. The present paper examines the requirements that service engineering models need to meet in order to be suitable guidelines for the digital age. To this end, the introduction illustrates how digitalization has changed the service industry. Afterwards, selected service engineering models and related norms are presented. Finally, a set of requirements for modern service engineering models derived from best practices from recent years is introduced.
Evolution des CRM
(2013)
Industrial service is currently undergoing tremendous changes, largely driven by the development of new technologies, in particular the advancing digitalization. Never before have organizations had more comprehensive and insightful data assets - and never before have the opportunities to fully exploit this potential been better. However, most companies are unaware of how they can make use of this potential and which development steps are necessary to react to the current situation. To change this, a maturity-based approach was developed which describes four development stages of an industrial service company from a technological, organizational and cultural point of view. The maturity model makes it possible to develop a digital roadmap that is tailormade to each company, which helps to introduce Industrie 4.0 and transform industrial service companies into learning, agile organizations.
Der Branchenindikator Instandhaltung ist ein vom FIR an der RWTH Aachen und dem Forum Vision Instandhaltung (FVI) geschaffenes Stimmungsbarometer, dass die konjunkturelle Entwicklung der innerbetrieblichen und industriellen Instandhaltung untersucht. Zusätzlich werden in den quartalsweisen Umfragen aktuelle Sonderthemen adressiert.
Im Rahmen dieses Vortrags während des FVI-Treffens in Dortmund wurden die Ergebnisse der Umfrage aus dem 2. Quartal 2018 vorgestellt. Ein besonderer Fokus lag auf der "Mitarbeiterqualifikation in der Instandhaltung". Hier wurde untersucht, ob die neuen Anforderungen durch Industrie 4.0 auch den Weg in die Entwicklungsprogramme der Instandhaltungsorganisation finden. Dabei konnten unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen aufgezeigt werden: Innerbetriebliche Instandhaltungsorganisationen setzen eher auf das vorhandene Domänenwissen, während industrielle Instandhalter zunehmend auch die Felder Datenanalyse/IT für sich entdecken.
Der Weg zur Industrie 4.0 bedingt einen umfangreichen Wandel in der Arbeitswelt des Instandhalters. Infolge der steigenden Komplexität und Vernetzung industrieller Serviceprozesse werden neue Schwerpunkte im Leistungsprofil der Techniker erzeugt. Datenanalytik, Elektrotechnik, Steuerungstechnik sowie Programmieren gewinnen an Bedeutung. Diese Entwicklung wird auch durch den Branchenindikator Instandhaltung, der seit 2016 gemeinsam vom FIR an der RWTH Aachen und dem Forum Vision Instandhaltung erhoben wird, bestätigt.
Dieser Artikel zeigt Ergebnisse des Branchenindikators Instandhaltung auf und kombiniert sie mit Ergebnissen aus dem Forschungsprojekt ELIAS. Hierzu werden zwei Use Cases für das Arbeitsbezogene Lernen vorgestellt.
Lean-Management-Prinzipien gehören in produzierenden Unternehmen seit Langem zum Standardrepertoire, um Prozesse zu verbessern und wirtschaftlicher zu gestalten. Bezogen auf Dienstleistungen sind bei der Anwendung von Lean-Management-Prinzipien die besonderen Spezifika von Dienstleistungen zu beachten. Beispielsweise fällt die Erstellung einer Dienstleistung zusammen mit dem Zeitpunkt, an welchem sie beim Kunden konsumiert wird. Dienstleistungen sind somit im Gegensatz zu physischen Gütern nicht lagerbar und Störungen bei der Erbringung der Dienstleistung werden vom Kunden sofort bemerkt. Wie die die Überführung von Lean-Management-Prinzipien auf Dienstleistungen dennoch gelingt, ist im Aachener Lean-Services-Zyklus beschrieben.
Das Ziel des Forschungsprojekts ToMiC war die Entwicklung einer Typologie zum lebenszyklusorientierten Management unternehmensinterner Communitys wissensintensiver Dienstleister. Jene befähigt insbesondere kleine und mittlere Unternehmen erstmals dazu, die aktuelle Lebensphase der eigenen Social-Software-basierten Community zu bestimmen. Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung ist der Abschlussbericht dieses Projekts.