Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management

This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages. Since clerk-like routines in professional organizations tend to overlook

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vice Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management Models, Strategies, Tools

Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management

Mario A. Pfannstiel • Christoph Rasche Editors

Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management Models, Strategies, Tools

Editors Mario A. Pfannstiel Hochschule Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany

Christoph Rasche University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

ISBN 978-3-319-46411-4 ISBN 978-3-319-46412-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46412-1

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Preface

The articles in this anthology provide examples of service-oriented business models in health and hospital management. They enlarge upon the drivers, strategies and tools to seize opportunities for analysing, modelling and implementing groundbreaking business models. In turn, they act as a basis for our classification while ensuring the success of and safeguarding the existence of service organisations in the health market. In the final analysis, the only guarantee of sustainable success is achieved in the case of co-aligning the interests of customers, business partners and one’s own organisation. Value creating healthcare ecosystems decisively depend on the coordination of multiple internal and external stakeholders by means of a network governance. On the one hand, it is not only necessary to revise already existing business models and foster the emergence of new ones, which can be either complementary and supportive or disruptive. Critically reflecting the entrenched orthodoxies in health care prevents the incumbents from becoming self-complacent and path depend