Smart products and service systems for e-business transformation

Smart products and service systems for e-business transformation

Web-based intelligent is key to achieve global leadership in six-sigma product aftermarket service and manufacturing productivity for the 21st century. The need to improve the understanding of product’s performance for aftermarket service will lead to e-intelligence for quality maintenance and product development. With the proper integration of e-intelligence into products, manufacturing and se...

Future Smart Products Systems

The increased availability, robustness, and moderate cost of sensors; the increased capacity of computer chips; and the wide spread of Internet and wireless connectivity are adding a new dimension to models of human living and working. Embedding machine intelligence into the working environment, tools, and processes can make even routine tasks easier. A smart vehicle may eventually suggest usin...

Web-enabled Smart Service Business Infrastructures

Smart service businesses denote a specific type of economic coordination amongst independently operating component service producers coupled through an electronic network to jointly generate complex compound services, making use of emerging web service technologies. The paper gives an overview of the inner structure of smart service businesses and their fundamental components, and illustrates t...

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Special section on managing e-business transformation

European Journal of Information Systems (2003) 12, 249–250. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000481 Transformational efforts usually encompass all the major organizational dimensions (strategy, structure, people, technology, processes) as well as the principal external forces (customers, suppliers, partners, competitors, regulators). Because a change in any of these factors invariably results in tens...