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Involving customers in new service development
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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- Published
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Imperial College PressVolume
11Page range
281-312Pages
332.0Book title
Customer and Supplier Involvement in New Service DevelopmentPlace of publication
LondonISBN
9781860946691Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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Gus Gustafsson, Per Kristensson, Bo EdvardssonLegacy Posted Date
2015-10-27Usage metrics
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