PSS business model conceptualization and application

Conceptualization of business excellence model with a grand theory approach

This study aims to conceptualize business excellence model and identify its variables and indicators. The philosophical foundations of the pragmatic, humanistic theory of symbolic interactionism has been, quietly and the strategy of grand theory deal with open, axial and selective coding; whose output is a new concept. Data collection is based on documentation studies on excellence models. The ...

A framework for PSS business models: formalization and application

In order to successfully move “from products to solutions”, companies need to redesign their business model. Nevertheless, service oriented BMs in product-centric firms are under-investigated in the literature: very few works develop a scheme of analysis of such BMs. To provide a first step into closing this gap, we propose a new framework to describe service-oriented BMs, pointing out the main...

Technical-Business Design Methodology for PSS

Concurrent Design (CD) is a systematic approach to integrated product design that emphasizes the response to customer expectations and the combination of creativity and engineering. Such a concept represents also the basis of ProductService System (PSS), which represents a valid way for companies to add value to their products, create new value propositions, and easily improve their solution po...

Situated Conceptualization : Theory and Application

ed across the situated conceptualizations constructed for each kind of situation (e.g., Barsalou, 1992, 1999, 2003a). Within the frame, local outputs of the situation processing architecture constitute slots/variables (e.g., setting, agent, object, action, etc.), with the global relations integrating slots in a predicate-like manner. Interestingly, the individual networks comprising the situati...

Mobile Application Usability: Conceptualization and Instrument Development