Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide further insight into operations management of the Product-Service (P-S) transition, known as servitization, and the resulting Product Service System (PSS) offerings. In exploring the dynamics of product-service transition this paper adopts a Service-Dominant (S-D) logic view of value creation, using it as a lens through which to explore value pr...

In IT Service Delivery, alignment of service infrastructures to continuously changing business requirements is a primary cost driver, all the more as most severe service disruptions can be attributed to poor change impact and risk assessment. In nowadays service-oriented business environments, services are shared amongst multiple higher-level or composite services, while the highest composition...

BACKGROUND Between 2009-2013 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation transitioned its HIV/AIDS prevention initiative in India from being a stand-alone program outside of government, to being fully government funded and implemented. We present an independent prospective evaluation of the transition. METHODS The evaluation drew upon (1) a structured survey of transition readiness in a sample of 8...

Although only a relatively small minority of military veterans develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), mental health theory and research with military veterans has focused primarily on PTSD and its treatment. By contrast, many and by some accounts most veterans experience high levels of stress during the transition to civilian life, however transition stress has received scant attention. ...

The declarative language STR (State Transition Rule) is proposed to describe service specifications and programs. Given that telecommunication service specifications can be represented in the form of a state transition diagram, STR describes conditions for state transitions in the form of a production rule. STR specifications, description examples, categories of feature interactions, examples o...

Resource-oriented Services recently become an enabling technology to integrate and configure information from different heterogeneous systems so as to meet ever-changing environment which not only need the concepts for entities but also require the semantics for operations. By the aim of combining structural and operational semantics agilely, a Semantic Resource Service Model (SRSM) is proposed...