Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

IT-Systeme sind in deutschen Krankenhäusern allgegenwärtig geworden - ob in der Unterstützungklinischer Leistungsprozesse oder administrativer Abläufe. Untersuchungen über den Wertbeitrag vonIT-Systemen fürs Krankenhaus existieren bislang keine. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich...

Der Durchdringungsgrad von IT nimmt in Krankenhäusern stetig zu. Hierbei lässt sich grundsätzlichzwischen administrativen und medizinischen IT-Systemen unterscheiden. Die vorliegende Studieuntersucht den wahrgenommenen Wertbeitrag von IT in Krankenhäusern aus Perspektive vondrei wichtigen...

Growing expenses for health care services in hospitals stress the potential of a well applied IT governance for cost reduction, productivity gains and a possible source for competitive advantages. The underlying explorative study analyzes the current status of IT governance through a survey...

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...