Collaborative Value Exploration for Early Product-Service Systems Design: A Group Model Building Approach
2023 (English)In: Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0: 24th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2023, Valencia, Spain, September 27–29, 2023, Proceedings / [ed] Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Xavier Boucher, Angel Ortiz, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023, p. 240-252Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
As manufacturing firms move from pure product-based business models toward Product-Service Systems offerings, value creation becomes more complex and requires more active cross-disciplinary collaboration. Especially non-functional values, those connected to the overall PSS behavior, depend on the successful alignment and coordination between perspectives. However, understanding the value creation itself, particularly among different departments or stakeholders, can be challenging. This paper conceptualizes a value model and a method based on Group Model Building to support value exploration of non-functional design objectives in early-stage Product-Service System design. The value model is constructed based on three layers of granularity to visualize how value is created holistically. Further, the proposed method allows participants to jointly explore and identify design objectives and put these in the context of value. The method and model were tested at two companies, showing that the proposed method and model successfully supported a collaborative value exploration in the non-functional domain. © 2023, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023. p. 240-252
Series
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, ISSN 18684238 ; 688
Keywords [en]
Action Research, Group Model Building, Product-Service Systems, Value Exploration, Product design, Structural design, Design objectives, Manufacturing firms, Non-functional, Service system designs, Value creation, Value model, Systems analysis
National Category
Other Mechanical Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-25511DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42622-3_17Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85174446812ISBN: 9783031426216 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-25511DiVA, id: diva2:1808410
Conference
24th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2023, Valencia, 27 September through 29 September 2023
Part of project
Model Driven Development and Decision Support – MD3S, Knowledge Foundation
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 201801592023-10-312023-10-312023-10-31Bibliographically approved