Meditec is a German manufacturer of instruments for surgeries. The company is quality leader in this sector and supplies many German and international hospitals. However, the opportunities for differentiation against competitors decrease continuously. New competitors from emerging markets are...

Innovations expressed by customers are often unstructured, unclear, and ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret customers’ contributions, integrate them into a company’s R&D department and transfer them into comprehensible requirements for the development of product, service or software...

Health care services in German hospitals are causing immense expenses. Successful IT Governancemight help to support specific challenges for every organization with an adequate use of IT. Themarket structure of hospitals in Germany is very heterogeneous, e.g. in size and sponsorship. Thispaper...

The divestiture of a business unit — also known as a “carve-out” — is a common strategy used by multi-business organizations to adjust their business portfolios in response to a change in business strategy, and legal or regulatory pressures. In a typical divestiture, systems that were...

Selten zuvor haben Konzepte und Technologien überall auf der Welt so schnell und weitreichend Anwendung gefunden wie digitale Geschäftsmodelle und Smartphones in den letzten Jahren. Die digitale Transformation stellt die Politik vor große Herausforderungen. Für eine fundierte...

Selten zuvor haben neuartige Konzepte und Technologien überall auf der Welt so schnell und weitreichend gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Anwendung gefunden wie digitale Geschäftsmodelle und Smartphones in den letzten zehn Jahren. Meilensteine der Entwicklung waren der Beginn der...