Smart Services Summit

Smart Services Creating Sustainability
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-36697-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Progress in IS

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of smart services innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches. It summarizes the outcomes of the fourth Smart Services Summit, held in Zurich in October 2022, which primarily focused on how smart services can promote sustainability.

As smart services accelerate, new technologies can be leveraged to create new value propositions and business models that deliver tangible sustainability outcomes. This book addresses social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability in connection with new technologies. It includes contributions on how the quality and value of services are affected by digital technologies, how collaboration affects shared value creation, and how organizations can be enabled to drive digital value creation.

Given its scope, the book represents an indispensable guide for practitioners and advanced students alike.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meierhofer, Jürg

Buecheler, Thierry

West, Shaun

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen: Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Betriebswirtschaft für Ingenieure
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Jürg Meierhofer holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and an Executive M.B.A. from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the director of studies for smart service engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and head of the Smart Services Group at the data innovation alliance The optimization and design of Smart Services are hallmarks of his activities in various industries. He is currently the director of studies for executive education in the field of Smart Service Engineering and Industry 4.0 at ZHAW.

Shaun West lectures in Smart Service Innovation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland). In this role, he works closely with industry to better understand the application and development of Smart Services in industrial settings. He collaborates with several universities, including Stanford, Aston Business School, Florence, and Bergamo. He is also coordinating a Swiss 1MUSD project on the use of Smart Twins in complex industrial applications. Having previously worked for GE Energy Services (Italy), as VP Business Development at Sulzer (Switzerland) and for RWE (UK), Shaun holds an M.B.A. from HEC (Paris) and a Ph.D. from Imperial College London.

Thierry Buecheler is Head of the Business Value & Strategy team at Oracle EMEA, where he spearheads strategic initiatives and delivers exceptional management consulting services. He has extensive experience at the interface of business and IT in several sectors and industries: Before joining Oracle, he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in Europe, North America, and Africa and a visiting researcher at NEC Tokyo, Japan. Before that, he worked for two Swiss banks in the IT and strategy departments. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence from the University of Zurich and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.