¦------------------- List Description (insert below) --------------------¦ Most western manufacturing companies are shifting their focus of business strategy towards selling services or functionality instead of products. The product-service system PSS strategy has a great impact on customers, product life cycle and company strategy. The design of PSS is a complex problem, and must meet the challenges of the changing financial and resource models that align with PSS strategy. A better understanding of knowledge resources is needed in order to meet these challenges. The changes required in digital product life cycle systems that PSS brings need to be investigated. The list aims to promote multi-disciplinary discussion between researchers and people in industry. |