Anders Gustafsson

Per Kristensson

Bo Edvardsson

Peter Magnusson

Jonas Matthing

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. Contents:Process of Customer Interaction in New Service Development (I Alam)The Role of the Customer in the Development Process (B Sandén et al.)Customers as Co-Innovators: An Initial Exploration of Its Strategic Importance (U Mannervik & R Ramirez)Customer-to-Customer Interaction in Service Development: A Many-to-Many Approach (E Gummesson)New Service Development: Learning from and with Customers (B Sandén et al.)Managing Ideas that are Unthinkable in Advance: A Matter of How and Where You Ask (P Kristensson)Learning from Experiments Involving Users in Service Innovation (P R Magnusson)Customer Involvement — Lessons Learned: A Study of Three Customer Involvement Projects at Volvo Cars (F Dahlsten)Service Encounter Analysis Based on Customer Retrospection (P Echeverri)How to Better Learn from Users (H Björkman)Video-Based Methodology: Capturing Real-Time Perceptions of Customer Processes (P Echeverri)Customer-Oriented Service Engineering as a Success Factor — Findings of Case Studies of Customer Integration in the Service Development Process (R Nägele)Service Innovation, User Involvement and Intellectual Property Management (C Hipp & C Herstatt)Customer and Supplier Involvement in New Service Development (F Hull et al.) Readership: Researchers and professionals in the fields of marketing, business development, strategy as well as service and product development. Suitable as a textbook for postgraduate courses like quality management, marketing, service management, operations management, and product management. Keywords:Customer Involvement;User Involvement;Service Development;Product Development;Innovation;Understanding CustomersKey Features:Several internationally-distinguished scholars present their latest findings concerning customer-involvementProvides readers with useful presentation and explanation of theories, augmented by illustrative examplesReviews:“This is a comprehensive text that addresses competently the general lack of knowledge regarding new service development and the different tools and approaches required … it is a high value resource for most in the NPD field interested in either new service development or even co-creation with customers applied to either products or services.”Journal of Product Innovation Management

Involving Customers in New Service Development

Lars Witell

Gary R. Schirr

All the world's most advanced economies are dominated by service. The service sector also employs the largest number of people and it is the fastest growing sector, both in number of companies and employees. The questions posed in the book are: (1) How is it growing; (2) what are these new service innovations; (3) what are the drivers; and (4) how can organizations work with service innovations in a structured way? The book views service as the value-creating activity that customers perform in their own context. The role of a company is to provide the resources and knowledge to enable value creation. Based on this view, we develop a model of service innovation and develop guidelines for what is required from the organizational perspective; how should an organization view its customers in order to be successful, what does a service development process look like, and how to transform an organization that has a product focus to a service or solution provider.

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