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Walter Ganz
Researcher at Fraunhofer Society
Publications - 44
Citations - 400
Walter Ganz is an academic researcher from Fraunhofer Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Service (business) & Service innovation. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 43 publications receiving 317 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter Ganz include Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering.
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Service development in product-service systems: a maturity model
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for assessing the maturity of new service development (NSD) processes in manufacturing companies that offer product-services is proposed, which adopts a five-stage scale on which key elements are evaluated according to the following dimensions: (1) the approach used to manage processes and projects (2) the use of specific resources, skills and tools (3) the involvement of customers, suppliers and other stakeholders and (4) the adoption of performance management systems.
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Smart Services – Chancen und Herausforderungen digitalisierter Dienstleistungssysteme für Unternehmen
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors setzt sich anhand der drei Themenblocke "Technologie", "Wertschopfung" and "Arbeit" with den zentralen Chancen und Herausforderungen of Smart Services auseinander and zeigt erste methodische Gestaltungsansatze aus Projekten der angewandten Forschung auf.
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Requirements for developing green services
Sabrina Cocca,Walter Ganz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a set of requirements for developing green services is introduced, considering specific criteria of ecological sustainability, based on an empirical study, and the potential seen in ecologically sustainable services is high, while a comprehensive approach in new service development is still missing.
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The methodology combination of a national foresight process in Germany
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the concept design of the German Foresight Process of the BMBF and explains one of the methods — the future online survey — in more detail.
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Applying Value Proposition Design for Developing Smart Service Business Models in Manufacturing Firms
TL;DR: This paper illustrates how the approach “Value Proposition Design” can support manufacturing firms to develop Smart Service Business Models and presents insights from an applied research project, in which two different Business Model alternatives have been derived from applying Value Proposition Design.