Browsing by Subject "Service"

Browsing by Subject "Service"

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  • Application of an ecosystem function framework to perceptions of community woodlands 
    Agbenyega, Olivia; Burgess, Paul J.; Cook, Matthew; Morris, Joe (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2009-07-01)
    Owners, local residents, government, and conservation organisations can express divergent preferences in the development and management of local woodlands. The perceptions of these four groups were examined, in the context ...
  • The Chinese Service Industry as a Challenge for European SME: A Systematic Approach for Market Entry 
    Schmitt, R.; Schumacher, S.; Scharrenberg, C. (Cranfield University Press, 2009-04-01)
    Compared to industrial firms, the market share of foreign companies in the Chinese service industry is rather low. Especially western small and medium-sized service providing enterprises face different problems when they ...
  • Continuous maintenance and the future – Foundations and technological challenges 
    Roy, Rajkumar; Stark, R.; Tracht, K.; Takata, S.; Mori, M. (Elsevier, 2016-06-30)
    High value and long life products require continuous maintenance throughout their life cycle to achieve required performance with optimum through-life cost. This paper presents foundations and technologies required to offer ...
  • Designing value-driven solutions: the evolution of industrial product-service systems 
    Brissaud, Daniel; Sakao, Tomohiko; Riel, Andreas; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet (Elsevier, 2022-08-03)
    Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS²) have been increasingly researched and practiced in a variety of fields and sectors. Nevertheless, such solutions are not as significantly implemented as expected by the CIRP keynote ...
  • Exploring the financial consequences of the servitization of manufacturing 
    Neely, Andrew (Springer Science Business Media, 2008-12-01)
    Commentators suggest that to survive in developed economies manufacturing firms have to move up the value chain, innovating and creating ever more sophisticated products and services, so they do not have to compete on ...
  • The Practical Challenges of Servitized Manufacture 
    Baines, Tim S.; Lightfoot, Howard (Cranfield University Press, 2009-04-01)
    Servitization is now widely recognised as the process of creating value by adding services to products. Since this term was first coined in the late 1980s it has been studied by a range of authors who have specifically sought ...
  • Service delivery for microsystems production: A study 
    Durugbo, Christopher; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Alcock, Jeffrey R. (Elsevier Science Business Media, 2012-01-26)
    This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the industry practice of service delivery within microsystems technologies (MST) (also known as micro- electro-mechanical systems, MEMS) production. A study was ...
  • Strategy Assessment and Decision based Implications for Integrated Product-Service-Suppliers 
    Schmitt, R.; Hatfield, S. (Cranfield University Press, 2009-04-01)
    In order to provide effective Product-Service-Solutions, so-called Integrated Solutions, especially industrial SME face challenges regarding the selection of appropriate business models regarding their internal organisation. ...