Made to Serve: How Manufacturers Can Compete Through Servitization and Product Service Systems

ISBN-13: 9781118585313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

Timothy Baines

Opis

A comprehensive, practical introduction to one of the most important new trends in manufacturing, globally The delivery of a service component as an added value when providing products, servitization is all the rage in the manufacturing sector around the world. Yet, despite the clear competitive advantage of servitization, most manufacturers remain reluctant to venture into, what for them, is a strange new world. Written by a team of internationally respected servitization experts and innovators, this book provides you with a detailed road map for successfully navigating the servitization terrain. Unlike most authors on the subject who merely sing the praises of servitization, Baines and Lightfoot provide you with a framework for accessing the feasibility of adopting a services-led competitive strategy in your company, along with strategies for designing and implementing the kinds of service offerings customers increasingly are coming to expect.

• Grounded in real-world practice and supported by a wealth of up-to-the minute research, this book helps ease the way for manufacturers considering adopting a servitization model
• Shows how to exploit your company's manufacturing competencies to build a strong servitization element without becoming -just another services company-
• Provides numerous illustrations and examples of services-led competitive strategies, with an emphasis on the advanced services most widely associated with servitization worldwide
• Packed with fascinating and instructive case studies from leading manufacturing firms across industry sectors, including Caterpillar, Rolls-Royce, Alstom, MAN, Xerox and others

Recenzje

“…this work provides valuable insights into servitisation in general, as well as a series of strategies that can also be applied to smaller product manufacturing firms…I would recommend it to academics, manufacturers and consultants who strive to grasp the world of services better.” (Production Planning and Control: The Management of Operations, August 2014)

Spis treści

Preface xi

Foreword xv

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Terminology and Scope 4

1.2 Knowledge Base 10

1.3 What’s New Here? 14

1.4 Navigating This Book 16

PART 1: BUSINESS CONTEXT 19

2. Business Context for Servitization 23

2.1 An Economic Perspective 24

2.2 An Environmental Perspective 30

2.3 A Market and Social Perspective 37

2.4 A Technology Innovation Perspective 39

2.5 A Knowledge Perspective 42

2.6 Summarizing the Business Context 49

PART 2: COMPETING THROUGH SERVICES 51

3. Elements of Servitization 55

3.1 The Challenge of Visualizing What it Can Mean to Servitize 57

3.2 A Process of Servitization 61

3.3 Dening Base, Intermediate and Advanced Services 64

3.4 Features Commonly Coupled to Advanced Services 69

3.5 A Summary of Advanced Services 76

4. Business Implications of Advanced Services 79

4.1 Setting Out to Explore Financial Performance 80

4.2 Services, Revenues and Pro4 tability 82

4.3 Motivations of Manufacturers Providing Advanced Services 87

4.4 Motivations of Customers Adopting Advanced Services 94

4.5 A Roadmap of Servitization and Advanced Services 100

PART 3: SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM 103

5. Delivery of Advanced Services 107

5.1 Searching for Leaders 107

5.2 A Perspective Against the World of Production 110

5.3 Advanced Services and Product–Service Systems 112

5.4 Service Delivery System for Advanced Services 116

5.5 Key Capabilities of a Service Delivery System 119

5.6 Chapter Summary 122

6. Performance Measures and Demonstration of Value 123

6.1 A Pyramid of Performance Measures 124

6.2 Customer Facing Measures of Performance 126

6.3 Macro Internal Measures of Performance 128

6.4 Local Internal Measures and Indicators of Performance 131

6.5 Demonstration of Value 134

6.6 Chapter Summary 138

7. Facilities and Their Location 143

7.1 Facilities in the Delivery of Advanced Services 144

7.2 Impact of Facilities and Their Location 148

7.3 Mitigating the Need for Co–Location 149

7.4 Chapter Summary 151

8. Vertical Integration and Organizational Structure 153

8.1 Organizational Structure in the Delivery of Advanced Services 154

8.2 Vertical Integration in the Delivery of Advanced Services 159

8.3 Impact of Vertical Integration and Organizational Structure 163

8.4 Mitigating the Need for Integration 166

8.5 Chapter Summary 167

9. Information and Communication Technologies 169

9.1 ICT Architecture in the Delivery of Advanced Services 170

9.2 Monitor 173

9.3 Transmit and Store 175

9.4 Analyse and Respond 176

9.5 Impact of ICT Capabilities 178

9.6 Chapter Summary 179

10. People Deployment and Skill–Sets 181

10.1 Deployment of Sta> in the Delivery of Advanced Services 183

10.2 Behaviour and Skill–Sets of Front–O? ce Sta> 185

10.3 Culture, Leadership and Incentives in the Front O? ce 191

10.4 Impact of an Integrated Skill–Set 194

10.5 Chapter Summary 197

11. Business Processes 199

11.1 Services Processes in a Production Environment 200

11.2 Business Processes in the Delivery of Advanced Services 204

11.3 Proactive Processes as the Core for Advanced Services Delivery 208

11.4 Chapter Summary 211

PART 4: READINESS TO SERVITIZE 213

12. Starting a Transition 217

12.1 Summarizing Servitization, Advanced Services and their Delivery System 218

12.2 A Readiness to Servitize 221

12.3 Overcoming the Obstacles to Transformation 230

12.4 The Journey Continues 232

Appendix: Acknowledgements and Guiding Studies 235

Index 243

O autorze

Professor Tim Baines leads Aston Business School’s research on servitization. He is an international authority on servitization, and works extensively with manufacturers to transform their operations to compete through Product–Service Systems (PSS). He has published over 200 papers across the disciplines of management and engineering, and is amongst the most frequently–cited authors on servitization and Product–Service Systems. He has experience of a wide range of industrial engineering, technology management, and manufacturing management disciplines, and works with the leading companies in his field including Rolls–Royce, Caterpillar, Alstom, MAN and Xerox. His career started with a technician apprenticeship, and has progressed through a variety of industrial and academic positions, including that of Visiting Scholar within the Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineers and Technologists.

Dr Howard Lightfoot is Manufacturing Systems Consultant and during the past 7 years his work as a university Senior Research Fellow has focussed on the field of Servitization and Product–Service Systems where he has published extensively and is considered to be a leading authority in this area. Along with his co–author he works with the leading companies in his field including Rolls–Royce, Caterpillar, Alstom, MAN and Xerox. He has a First Class Honours Degree and PhD in Physics and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers and Technologists. His career began as a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at Loughborough University before moving into industry where he held senior manufacturing operations and management positions within manufacturing companies such as Marconi and the Volex Group and held board level positions in several SMEs supplying Automotive, Defence and Aerospace sectors. He has over 25 years of experience in high technology product development and manufacturing with International business development experience gained in Western Europe, USA and the Far East.

Blurb

"Made to Serve is an indispensable guide for anyone considering moving their business from traditional product–based operations to service–based customer offerings. The book is filled with practical examples drawn from successful service businesses and explains the underlying philosophy needed to create and nurture a ′service based′ business. It is easy to read, as well as informative."
—Jon R. Greiner, DTM, President, JRG Consulting

"Today, customers have a wide variety of high quality equipment to choose from and manufacturers and dealers who cannot differentiate themselves from the competition will find themselves losing business. Baines and Lightfoot′s research of different industry leaders’ best practices provides excellent insight into growing customer loyalty and increasing revenues through servitization."
—Mike Hulon, Customer Services Manager, Mustang Cat, Houston Texas

"Tim and Howard have done an excellent job in critically examining the custom, practice, motivation and key success factors of a number of the most forward thinking organisations in industrial product based servitization. Any company with a product that lasts more than 5 years in operation and a significant ′support′ element to its cost of operation would be well advised to take the lessons captured in this book to heart."
—Andy Harrison, Rolls–Royce Engineering, Associate Fellow

"Taking us step by step through a process of skills and capability, this timely book leads us to a land of opportunity, profit and sustainability through servitization. Read it."
—Tim Bentley, Director, Alstom Transport

"Tim Baines and Howard Lightfoot supply impressive detail to guide manufacturers, from the novice to the well informed dealer, through the complex world of advanced services. Companies seeking to advance their products by including high–value services, would do well follow their guidance."
—Bob Bacon, Vice–President, General Manager of Services, Thompson Tractor Co Inc

"A very insightful read containing fascinating case studies of servitization in action across different industry sectors."
—Zachary Emmett, General Manager, Strategy and Marketing, Xerox Europe