Industrial Internet enabled value creation for manufacturing companies: A data and information management perspective
Menon, Karan (2020)
Tampere University
2020
Teknis-taloudellinen tohtoriohjelma - Doctoral Programme in Business and Technology Management
Tekniikan ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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Väitöspäivä
2020-10-16
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1701-0
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1701-0
Tiivistelmä
The "Industrial Internet" creates a situation where the smart and connected products create up-to-date information on their status as well as conditions from within the customer’s real-time environment. The basic idea behind industrial internet enabled technologies is that they provide a digital identifier that uses the internet to relay data to the different actors of the delivery and value chains as well as creates new opportunities to earn for the manufacturing companies.
Like many other novel technologies, industrial internet enabled technologies also pose several challenges to the manufacturing companies, such as, increased investments, disruption in the business models, effective data and information management, and employees’ fear to be replaced to name a few. These challenges hinder the manufacturing companies from creating value via the industrial internet enabled technologies. This dissertation addresses some of the challenges that these technologies bring, especially from data and information management perspective.
The aim of this dissertation is to increase the understanding of the impact industrial internet enabled data and information management on value creation for business - to - business (B2B) manufacturing companies. There is growing interest in value creation through industrial internet enabled technologies for manufacturing companies, but the impact of related data and information management is relatively less researched. Hence, this dissertation raises the following question: How to create value from industrial internet enabled data and information management for manufacturing companies? This dissertation considers the viewpoint of B2B manufacturing companies while investigating the above-mentioned research question.
In addition to this introduction, this article-based dissertation is comprised of five academic articles (two journal articles and three conference articles). The research design took the qualitative research approach to answer the research questions.
Depending on the study, the primary research data were interviews or qualitative surveys or literature-based cases. The dissertation studied various manufacturing companies and platform companies to create a concrete understanding towards the impact of industrial internet enabled data and information management on value creation for the manufacturing companies.
The results of this dissertation are illustrated in a manner that first we understand the process of creating a systematic and step-by-step maturity model for industrial internet enabled technologies through detailed design guidelines to create the maturity model. Subsequently, we address the critical issue of data and information management through platforms and related openness. This platform openness brings up various long-termimpacts such as switching costs, lock-in to name a few. These longterm impacts, especially the impacts related to switching costs, are studied in detail. Finally, the impact of industrial internet enabled data and information on advanced business models is studied using a morphological box framework.
This research makes various contributions to earlier research. This dissertation furthers the academic understanding by formulating design guidelines to create a maturity framework which can divide tasks into different categories and steps, and simplify the complex steps of implementing industrial internet in a step-by-step manner resulting into the potential for increasingly more advanced business value creation. This dissertation increased the understanding of the role of industrial internet enabled data and information through a multidimensional platform openness framework. This dissertation creates a deeper understanding in analyzing short-and longterm impacts of platform openness, such as security issues, application developer’s reliability and quality, and others that in turn impact industrial internet enabled value creation. This dissertation increased the understanding of increased platform openness impacts, especially long-term impacts such as switching costs, lock-in, and others by using a multidimensional framework. Finally, this dissertation furthers the understanding to the impact of industrial internet based technologies as well as related data and information management on nonownership business models by using morphological box framework.
Like many other novel technologies, industrial internet enabled technologies also pose several challenges to the manufacturing companies, such as, increased investments, disruption in the business models, effective data and information management, and employees’ fear to be replaced to name a few. These challenges hinder the manufacturing companies from creating value via the industrial internet enabled technologies. This dissertation addresses some of the challenges that these technologies bring, especially from data and information management perspective.
The aim of this dissertation is to increase the understanding of the impact industrial internet enabled data and information management on value creation for business - to - business (B2B) manufacturing companies. There is growing interest in value creation through industrial internet enabled technologies for manufacturing companies, but the impact of related data and information management is relatively less researched. Hence, this dissertation raises the following question: How to create value from industrial internet enabled data and information management for manufacturing companies? This dissertation considers the viewpoint of B2B manufacturing companies while investigating the above-mentioned research question.
In addition to this introduction, this article-based dissertation is comprised of five academic articles (two journal articles and three conference articles). The research design took the qualitative research approach to answer the research questions.
Depending on the study, the primary research data were interviews or qualitative surveys or literature-based cases. The dissertation studied various manufacturing companies and platform companies to create a concrete understanding towards the impact of industrial internet enabled data and information management on value creation for the manufacturing companies.
The results of this dissertation are illustrated in a manner that first we understand the process of creating a systematic and step-by-step maturity model for industrial internet enabled technologies through detailed design guidelines to create the maturity model. Subsequently, we address the critical issue of data and information management through platforms and related openness. This platform openness brings up various long-termimpacts such as switching costs, lock-in to name a few. These longterm impacts, especially the impacts related to switching costs, are studied in detail. Finally, the impact of industrial internet enabled data and information on advanced business models is studied using a morphological box framework.
This research makes various contributions to earlier research. This dissertation furthers the academic understanding by formulating design guidelines to create a maturity framework which can divide tasks into different categories and steps, and simplify the complex steps of implementing industrial internet in a step-by-step manner resulting into the potential for increasingly more advanced business value creation. This dissertation increased the understanding of the role of industrial internet enabled data and information through a multidimensional platform openness framework. This dissertation creates a deeper understanding in analyzing short-and longterm impacts of platform openness, such as security issues, application developer’s reliability and quality, and others that in turn impact industrial internet enabled value creation. This dissertation increased the understanding of increased platform openness impacts, especially long-term impacts such as switching costs, lock-in, and others by using a multidimensional framework. Finally, this dissertation furthers the understanding to the impact of industrial internet based technologies as well as related data and information management on nonownership business models by using morphological box framework.
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