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Title Steering Manufacturing Firms Towards Service Business Model Innovation
ID_Doc 71486
Authors Visnjic Kastalli, I; Van Looy, B; Neely, A
Title Steering Manufacturing Firms Towards Service Business Model Innovation
Year 2013
Published California Management Review, 56.0, 1
DOI 10.1525/cmr.2013.56.1.100
Abstract Increasingly, manufacturing firms are turning to services as a new way of creating and capturing value. Despite its potential benefits, many new product-service providers struggle to deploy service activities effectively, not least because they fail to reflect the presence of service activities in their performance management systems. This article reports the results of an in-depth case study, which examines how manufacturers can steer the transition towards services. It shows that manufacturing firms need to emphasize two separate but related dimensions of the market performance of service activities: "service adoption," reflecting the proportion of customers who purchase the manufacturer's services; and "service coverage," signaling the range of service elements or the comprehensiveness of the service contract that customers opt for. These two indicators, reflecting service market performance, should be supplemented with a "complementarity index" designed to disclose whether the relationship between products and services is reinforcing or substitutive. When combined, these indicators allow manufacturing firms to deploy a service-based business model in an integrated and sustainable manner.
Author Keywords Servitization; Open Service Innovation; Product-Service Systems; Performance Measures; Business Model Innovation
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000326906700006
WoS Category Business; Management
Research Area Business & Economics
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