
Involving Customers In New Service Development
- 332 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Involving Customers In New Service Development
About this book
This book deals with how companies can involve customers or users in order to learn with them in the field of service-based business development. It presents a variety of customer-involvement approaches, methods for learning with customers, and the results of case studies conducted in both service and manufacturing companies focusing on value-creation through services.Based on research carried out by several research groups around the world, as well as on illustrative cases, the book creates new actionable knowledge regarding customer-involvement which will be useful for both practitioners and scholars.Benefits for readers include: an understanding of the business potential of learning with customers and other users; an overview of the fields of new service development and customer-involvement with regard to concepts, theoretical frameworks, and models, in addition to strategies and techniques for involving users in fruitful ways during the innovation process; an illustration of the cases based on the results of empirical studies; and managerial implications and guidelines regarding how to manage customer-involvement during the different phases of the new service and business development process.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Process of Customer Interaction in New Service Development
- Chapter 3 The Role of the Customer in the Development Process
- Chapter 4 Customers as Co-Innovators: An Initial Exploration of Its Strategic Importance
- Chapter 5 Customer-to-Customer Interaction in Service Development: A Many-to-Many Approach
- Chapter 6 New Service Development: Learning from and with Customers
- Chapter 7 Managing Ideas That Are Unthinkable in Advance: A Matter of How and Where You Ask
- Chapter 8 Learning from Experiments Involving Users in Service Innovation
- Chapter 9 Customer Involvement - Lessons Learned: A Study of Three Customer Involvement Projects at Volvo Cars
- Chapter 10 Service Encounter Analysis Based on Customer Retrospection
- Chapter 11 How to Better Learn from Users
- Chapter 12 Video-Based Methodology: Capturing Real-Time Perceptions of Customer Processes
- Chapter 13 Customer-Oriented Service Engineering As a Success Factor - Findings of Case Studies of Customer Integration in the Service Development Process
- Chapter 14 Service Innovation User Involvement and Intellectual Property Management
- Chapter 15 Customer and Supplier Involvement in New Service Development
- Biographies
- Index