Findings and Discussion
Stakeholders
During the case interviews, informants were asked to identify
stakeholders who were involved, who should have been involved
during the development process, and the timing of their involvement
Eleven stakeholder groups were identified. Considering the
stakeholder groups identified, the stakeholders have different
degrees of proximity to the operations of the PSS. These levels are
(1) business environment, (2) system, (3) product, and (4) service
delivery. Exhibit 4 shows the potential mapping between the eleven
identified stakeholder groups and the four levels of proximity. Case
1 is used as an example to explain this concept.
In Case 1, nurses record patient test completions and results
into the new ICT product within the PSS. The patients (P) receive
the service while the nurses as the end users (Cu-U) deliver the
service using the product. The company’s service delivery (Co-
U) trains the customer’s IT support (Cu-S) on how to perform
configuration on the new ICT product and ensure they are able
to provide end-user training; therefore, P is associated with the
service delivery level while Co-U and Cu-U are associated with
both the product and service delivery levels. The company’s
development (Co-T) configures the ICT product to the nurses’
needs, and also works with the hospital’s IT support (Cu-S) to
ensure the new product is adopted into the nursing operations;
therefore, Cu-S is associated with the service delivery (end-user
training), product (implementation), and system (PSS adoption)
levels, while Co-T is associated with product (configuration)
and system (integration and PSS adoption) levels. The hospital’s
management (Cu-M), company’s management (Co-M), and
company’s commercial groups (Co-Co) have an overall interest
in the operations of the PSS, and so they are associated with the