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Alejandro Germán Frank
Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Publications - 88
Citations - 5116
Alejandro Germán Frank is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The author has contributed to research in topics: New product development & Industry 4.0. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 77 publications receiving 2588 citations. Previous affiliations of Alejandro Germán Frank include University of Rio Grande.
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Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies
TL;DR: The findings show that Industry 4.0 is related to a systemic adoption of the front-end technologies, in which Smart Manufacturing plays a central role, and the implementation of the base technologies is challenging companies, since big data and analytics are still low implemented in the sample studied.
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The expected contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies for industrial performance
Lucas Santos Dalenogare,Guilherme Brittes Benitez,Néstor Fabián Ayala,Alejandro Germán Frank +3 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied how the adoption of different Industry 4.0 technologies is associated with expected benefits for product, operations and side-effects aspects in the Brazilian industry.
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Servitization and Industry 4.0 convergence in the digital transformation of product firms: A business model innovation perspective
TL;DR: This work develops a conceptual framework that connects Servitization and Industry 4.0 concepts from a business model innovation (BMI) perspective and discusses different levels of complexity for the implementation of these configurations.
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Industry 4.0 innovation ecosystems: An evolutionary perspective on value cocreation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze eleven years of an ecosystem's evolution using a technology mapping of 87 companies, 37 interviews with stakeholders, and a 2.5-year follow-up of a testbed project conducted by 8 companies.
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Business model innovation and strategy making nexus: evidence from a cross‐industry mixed‐methods study
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the strategy making process and business model innovation (BMI) is investigated by investigating when firms design a new business model (BM) or improve their current BM within the overall SMP.