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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TYPES FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Yong Se Kim
Yong Se Kim*
Affiliation:
Creative Design Institute, Sungkyunkwan University
*
Kim, Yong Se, Sungkyunkwan University, Creative Design Institute, Korea, Republic of (South Korea), yskim@skku.edu

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Digital transformation has become a mega trend topic for many enterprises globally. For some companies, customer interactions have been digitalized. But many companies still rely on physical interactions of customers with their products in the core value creation processes. Thus the key challenges for digital transformation efforts would be associating product-centered value propositions with digitalized services. In other words, the transformation of product-centered values into experience values co-created by customers with services supporting customers. The research goal of this paper is to identify different strategies for digital transformation in product-service systems (PSS) design so that diverse paths for digital transformation can be considered in designing PSSs. Three types for digital transformation strategies have been identified from PSS design cases conducted in a manufacturing servitization support framework project where PSSs have been designed for 15 manufacturing companies including SMEs and large companies with varying levels of digital technology. A classification for digital transformation strategies could be postulated with three primary dimensions and two supplementary dimensions.

Keywords

Product-Service Systems (PSS)Experience designIndustry 4.0Digital TransformationCustomer Experience

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 1283 - 1292
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