Thomas Friedli is a Professor for Production Management at the Institute of Technology Management, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland). He leads a team of 15 researchers dealing with the challenges of manufacturing companies in today’s business environment. Prof. Friedli has published extensively in several journals and books, five of them with Springer.Philipp Osterrieder graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and earned his PhD at the Institute of Technology Management, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland). His research focuses on the organizational integration of smart service activities in manufacturing companies.Moritz Classen graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). He is currently a Research Associate at the Institute of Technology Management, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland). His researchfocuses on marketing, selling and pricing approaches for smart services.

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• Part I: Theoretical Considerations.- Introduction to Managing Industrial Services.- Servitization of Manufacturing Companies.- Fundamentals of Industrial Service Management.- Service Strategy.- Organizational Structure.- Service Innovation.- Service Sales.- Service Operations.- Customer Relationship Management and the Value Network.- Outlook and Summary of Managing Industrial Services.- Part II: Insights from Practice.- Editorial to Managing Industrial Services: Insights from Practice.- Industrial Smart Services Facilitated by the Heidelberg Cloud.- Adaptive Service: Digital Service Platform and the Service Crowd Community.- Enabling the Dealer Network to Deliver Smart Services.- SKF: Rotating Equipment Performance, a Shift in Perspective—From Transactions to Outcomes.- Value Co-creation as Key to Customer Satisfaction in Digital Services Sales.- Applications of a Digital Twin for the Use of Compressed Air Stations: Concepts and Methods for Model-Based Automatic Planning, Design, Control, and Analysis of Compressed Air Stations.