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INVOLVING CUSTOMERS IN NEW SERVICE DEVELOPMENT (Technology Management) - Softcover

 
9781911299714: INVOLVING CUSTOMERS IN NEW SERVICE DEVELOPMENT (Technology Management)

Synopsis

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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Review

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 service. --Journal of Product Innovation Management

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