3D printing Case Studies (e-book)

Digital Business Case Studies and Solutions by Gregory John Lee and Vernon Timothy Thaver is a remarkable compendium of case studies in the domain of digital business and digitalization, as well as a varied collection of challenges to the readers and reflections by the authors on those challenges.

These three 3D printing case studies are extracted from that book. The case includes sub-cases on printing of human organs, precious metals, and buildings. The cases include two challenges:

• How these cases illustrate the joint importance of technological development, market demand analysis, and business model thinking (reflection included in this document)
• How a technology adoption model could be applied to these 3D printing cases (reflection contained in the Instructor’s Supplement available only to instructors)

Main area: Ingredients of technological disruption, business models
Other areas: Technology in business (3D printing)

# pages: 33 pages (human organs case 5 pages, precious metals case 3.5 pages, building construction case 8 pages, challenges & reflections +- 5 pages, rest of document is references & appendices).