TY  - CPAPER
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Novales Uriarte, Ainara
A1  - Mocker, Martin
A1  - Simonovich, Daniel
T1  - IT-enriched "digitized" products : building blocks and challenges
T2  - 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2016, San Diego, August 11 - 13, 2016
N2  - The use of digital, IT-based components in physical products is becoming increasingly relevant in practice. Surprisingly, the strategic impact of these "digitized products" has not received a lot of attention in IS research so far. Extant papers on the topic rely on ambiguous terminology (e.g., "smart products", "cyber-physical systems", "digital product-service systems") and underlying concepts differ widely. Based on an extensive literature review, this article provides an overview of the different terms and identifies five conceptual elements that form the building blocks of digitized products in research: "hybridity" (i.e., the combination of digital and physical components), connectivity, smartness, digitized product-service bundles (servitization of digitized products), and digitized product ecosystems. The implication for practitioners is that each element comes with different managerial challenges that companies need to address when incorporating the respective element in their products. The research implication is that each conceptual element is supported by different theoretical streams.
KW  - product digitization
KW  - smart products
KW  - cyber-physical systems
KW  - internet of things
KW  - servitization
KW  - ecosystems
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1540&context=amcis2016
SN  - 978-0-9966831-2-8
SB  - 978-0-9966831-2-8
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
S1  - 10
PB  - Association for Information Systems
CY  - Atlanta, GA
ER  -