Elgar Fleisch

In the realm of global commerce, Europe has long been renowned for its exceptional hardware products, dominating markets with its machine tools and luxury automobiles. However, it has lost the Internet game and consumes almost all Internet services from the USA and has China on the rise in all dimensions. However, with the emergence of the Internet of Things, the convergence of hardware-based products with software-based services offers a new avenue for success. Understanding Products as Services discusses how to succeed in the emerging hybrid economy, in which the term ‘hybrid’ represents the mixture of digital and physical products and services that is required to offer a state-of-the-art customer experience. The authors do not rely on lofty concepts but propose tangible and validated tools. Whether you are an industry professional, an entrepreneur, a business student, or a researcher, Understanding Products as Services serves as an indispensable guide for navigating the hybrid economy, enabling you to leverage the integration of hardware and software, and propel your organization to the forefront of innovation and success.

Information technology is changing healthcare in numerous wide-ranging aspects, including significantly improving the overall quality of patient care and therefore helping to reduce limitations in people's daily lives. The Digital Pill reflects on how digital technologies can combat chronic diseases including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases as well as mental disorders. Chronic diseases touch every family, generate infinite suffering and cause the lion's share of every countries' healthcare spending across the world. The authors carefully study a broad selection of contemporary companies and healthcare organizations that are shaping digital healthcare. They report pioneering cases from large and small technology, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies as well as healthcare providers of all sorts across the globe and bring forward patterns and corner stones of an affordable and patient centric digital healthcare. The Digital Pill is essential reading for anyone working in, engaged with or interested in understanding the future of healthcare.

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for fast innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. Business Networking proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It is written to serve academic and professional audiences and formulate key success factors and management guidelines. All ideas were developed in close cooperation of research and practice and are documented in numerous original case examples.

Die Vielzahl scheinbar neuer betriebswirtschaftlicher Konzepte rund um das e-Business steigert sich schon zur "e-Manie". Anders dieses Buch: Das hier prasentierte Modell des Netzwerkunternehmens integriert die vielfaltigen Formen der uberbetrieblichen Zusammenarbeit wie Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Electronic Commerce, Distributed Engineering in einem einfach handhabbaren Modell, das erstmals die Ableitung von gesamtheitlichen e-Business-Strategien zulasst. Der Leser erhalt konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfahigkeit in Unternehmensnetzwerken auf den Ebenen Produkt/Dienstleistung, Prozesse, Informationssysteme, Mitarbeiter, Fuhrungskrafte, Organisationsstruktur und Kultur. Ein reichlich illustriertes Buch uber e-Business, das ohne e-Buzzword-Schlacht auskommt und sich auf das wirklich Neue im e-Business konzentriert: die zwischenbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit auf Basis des Internets.

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. This book proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It formulates key success factors and management guidelines which were developed in close cooperation between research and practice.

Trade in counterfeit goods has developed into a substantial threat to many industries. The problem is no longer confined to prestigious, easy-to-manufacture products which consumers all too often knowingly purchase as cheap imitations. Today counterfeiting affects pharmaceuticals, mechanical spare parts, fast-moving consumer goods and electronic components as well as fashion accessories, clo- ing, cigarettes, and digital media. Even within the different product categories counterfeit supply is extremely diverse. While some goods pose a severe risk to the health and safety of consumers, others have a decent level of quality and s- isfy the needs of most of their users; manufacturing sites exist where people work under almost inhuman conditions whereas other facilities resemble modern, highly automated plants; and counterfeit producers may act like small-time criminals, but may also manage their businesses like multinational companies. On the dema- side consumers sometimes invest considerable effort in searching for low-cost imitations or may become actively engaged in a company’s anti-counterfeiting program. The implications for brand owners are as manifold as the market itself. Effects include losses of revenue due to substitution and constraints to product pricing, erosion of brand value when corresponding goods appear to become less exclusive or of lower quality, liability claims and product recalls if substandard imitations end up in products or on the shelves of licit companies, and increased competition resulting from learning effects among illicit actors who may eventually turn into licit manufacturers.

Trade in counterfeit goods has developed into a substantial threat to many industries. The problem is no longer confined to prestigious, easy-to-manufacture products which consumers all too often knowingly purchase as cheap imitations. Today counterfeiting affects pharmaceuticals, mechanical spare parts, fast-moving consumer goods and electronic components as well as fashion accessories, clo- ing, cigarettes, and digital media. Even within the different product categories counterfeit supply is extremely diverse. While some goods pose a severe risk to the health and safety of consumers, others have a decent level of quality and s- isfy the needs of most of their users; manufacturing sites exist where people work under almost inhuman conditions whereas other facilities resemble modern, highly automated plants; and counterfeit producers may act like small-time criminals, but may also manage their businesses like multinational companies. On the dema- side consumers sometimes invest considerable effort in searching for low-cost imitations or may become actively engaged in a company’s anti-counterfeiting program. The implications for brand owners are as manifold as the market itself. Effects include losses of revenue due to substitution and constraints to product pricing, erosion of brand value when corresponding goods appear to become less exclusive or of lower quality, liability claims and product recalls if substandard imitations end up in products or on the shelves of licit companies, and increased competition resulting from learning effects among illicit actors who may eventually turn into licit manufacturers.

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Die Vielzahl scheinbar neuer betriebswirtschaftlicher Konzepte rund um das e-Business steigert sich schon zur "e-Manie". Anders dieses Buch: Das hier pr sentierte Modell des Netzwerkunternehmens integriert die vielf ltigen Formen der berbetrieblichen Zusammenarbeit wie Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Electronic Commerce, Distributed Engineering in einem einfach handhabbaren Modell, das erstmals die Ableitung von gesamtheitlichen e-Business-Strategien zul sst. Der Leser erh lt konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsf higkeit in Unternehmensnetzwerken auf den Ebenen Produkt/Dienstleistung, Prozesse, Informationssysteme, Mitarbeiter, F hrungskr fte, Organisationsstruktur und Kultur. Ein reichlich illustriertes Buch ber e-Business, das ohne e-Buzzword-Schlacht auskommt und sich auf das wirklich Neue im e-Business konzentriert: die zwischenbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit auf Basis des Internets.

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for fast innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. Business Networking proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It is written to serve academic and professional audiences and formulate key success factors and management guidelines. All ideas were developed in close cooperation of research and practice and are documented in numerous original case examples.