How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition

By Michael E. Porter, J. Heppelmann. 2014

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The Role and Impact of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things on the Business Strategy of the Value Chain—The Case of Hungary (2018, methodology): “Porter and Heppelmann [37] argue that the company should not address fundamental issues superficially and ignore industry signals.”
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC): Principles and Building Blocks (2017, background): “To put this in perspective, wireless connectivity and embedded processing have significantly transformed many products by expanding functionality and transcending the traditional product boundaries [2]; e.”
Constituents and consequences of smart customer experience in retailing (2017, background): “This enables retailers to acquire new capabilities in terms of monitoring, controlling, optimization, and autonomy (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014).”
The influence of a digital strategy on the digitalization of new ventures: The mediating effect of digital capabilities and a digital culture (2021, background): “Digital products/services of new ventures are defined as products and services that are made possible or enabled through digital technologies (Lyytinen et al., 2016; Porter & Heppelmann, 2014).”
Managerial challenges of Industry 4.0: an empirically backed research agenda for a nascent field (2018, background): “In particular, these value propositions will be driven by the use of data, the integration of customers into product and service engineering processes and the increasing importance of the software part of products (Porter and Heppelmann 2014; Arnold et al. 2016).”
Service Growth in Product Firms: Past, Present, and Future (2017, background): “…have increasingly become commodities, but by utilizing technologies surrounding the industrial internet, John Deere opened up a new service market including servicing all farming assets and data integration services about weather, seed quality, water irrigation and soil (Porter & Heppelmann, 2014).”
Studying innovation ecosystems using ecology theory (2016, background): “Big Data and Internet of Things have unleashed tsunami of phenomena that cannot normally be accessed by naked human senses.”
50th Anniversary Invited Article - City Logistics: Challenges and Opportunities (2016, background): “It is expected that many future systems will function with a large amount of autonomy, applying advanced algorithms that utilize data about their performance and their environment (Porter and Heppelmann 2014).”
The smart circular economy: A digital-enabled circular strategies framework for manufacturing companies (2020, unknown): “…analytics ) can serve as a tool to predict product health and wear, reduce production downtime, schedule maintenance, order spare parts, and optimize energy consumption (Conboy, Mikalef, Dennehy, & Krogstie, 2020; Lacy et al., 2020; Porter & Heppelmann, 2014; Shrouf, Ordieres, & Miragliotta, 2014).”
Industry 4.0, global value chains and international business (2017, background): “This will involve a greater integration of data between ﬁ rms, suppliers and customers, and a reduction in the need for intermediaries (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014).”
Organizational learning paths based upon industry 4.0 adoption: An empirical study with Brazilian manufacturers (2020, unknown): “0 became more financially feasible (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014).”
What Drives the Implementation of Industry 4.0? The Role of Opportunities and Challenges in the Context of Sustainability (2018, background): “0 predominantly from a technical perspective, whereas only few articles consider aspects of sustainability, of which the most ones only refer to a single dimension of sustainability rather than to all dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line [3,16,17].”