Service Innovation and Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 448-493
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Customer Participation ◽  
Service Development ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The purpose of this chapter is to explain the basic principles, theories, process, and management of service innovation. The authors first review the basic set of customer-centric principles of service innovation. Next, the authors review the theories behind service innovation typology. The following sections focus on the service innovation process, new service development, service engineering, customer participation, and lifecycle management. Then the authors select a couple of case examples from the literature to illustrate how the interrelated core concepts of knowledge, dynamic capabilities, and service innovation that have been covered in the previous and current chapters are utilized in different types of firms.

Service innovation in the hotel industry: the dynamic capabilities view

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Babak Ziyae ◽  
Hossein Sadeghi ◽  
Maryam Golmohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
It Training

Purpose Consistent with the dynamic capabilities view tenets, this paper aims to conceptualize a theoretical framework of service innovation in the hotel industry. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. The data were collected using a snowball sampling method and semi-structured interviews with 14 experts in Tehran's hotel industry. Findings The findings demonstrate that the most significant factors are using the new technology, keeping up with it, training human labor, being up-to-date and adopting new infrastructures. Results also reveal that improper management and lack of knowledge are the most critical factors behind service innovation failure in the hotel industry. Regarding the infrastructures needed to develop service innovation in the hotel industry, the results show that adopting the newest technology in diverse aspects, human infrastructure, the capital and appropriate space and place are the key factors. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature by linking the service innovation perspective to the dynamic capabilities view. It explains how hotels can enhance service innovation to gain a competitive advantage. Therefore, both academicians and hoteliers can develop action plans by selecting and managing the service innovation process.

scholarly journals Incremental and radical open service innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Myhren ◽  
Lars Witell ◽  
Anders Gustafsson ◽  
Heiko Gebauer
Keyword(s):  
Service Innovation ◽  
Group Development ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Team Development ◽  
Service Development ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Open Service ◽  
Cross Case Analysis

Purpose Open service innovation is an emergent new service development practice, where knowledge on how to organize development work is scarce. The purpose of the present research is to identify and describe relevant archetypes of open service innovation. The study views an archetype as an organizing template that includes the competence of participants, organizing co-creation among participants and ties between participants. In particular, the study’s interest lies in how open service innovation archetypes are used for incremental and radical service innovation. Design/methodology/approach For the research, a nested case study was performed, in which an industrial firm with nine open service innovation groups was identified. Forty-five interviews were conducted with participants. For each case, first a within-case analysis was performed, and how to perform open service innovation in practice was described. Then, a cross-case analysis identifying similarities and differences between the open service innovation groups was performed. On the basis of the cross-case analysis, three archetypes for open service innovation were identified. Findings The nested case study identified three archetypes for open service innovation: internal group development, satellite team development and rocket team development. This study shows that different archetypes are used for incremental and radical service innovation and that a firm can have multiple open service innovation groups using different archetypes. Practical implications This study provides suggestions on how firms can organize for open service innovation. The identified archetypes can guide managers to set up, develop or be part of open service innovation groups. Originality/value This paper uses open service innovation as a mid-range theory to extend existing research on new service development in networks or service ecosystems. In particular, it shows how open service innovation can be organized to develop both incremental and radical service innovations.

scholarly journals The Theoretical Study and Empirical Research Process of Service Innovation: A Literature Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Di Rong ◽  
Xu Ming ◽  
Jutamart Limsupanark
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
Three Stages

<p>The industry of service has been progressing rapidly in recent years. In face of the financial crisis, innovation is becoming one of the most important factors along with the development of service innovation. It is important to fully consider characteristics both from theoretical and empirical perspective when identifying service innovation. This article conducts a systematic review of literature on research process of service innovation. In this paper, the research status on concept and typology of service innovation are demonstrated and classified in the second and third section, and three stages are discussed in the following, In addition, the development process is highlighted from four aspects: The customer, new service development and new product development, theoretical and empirical. At last, a recommended list of measures is provided for future theoretical study and empirical research. </p>

Service Innovation Management

2009 ◽  
pp. 445-459
Author(s):  
Fotis C. Kitsios
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Service Process ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Market Place ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
The World

Nowadays that the world depends more and more in services, there is no issue more fundamental for service organizations than understanding the factors that separate success from failure in new service development. The new service process is not so well studied and researched as new product development, and as a result the failure rate is high. However in order to survive in the market place, service organisations need to make the most of all of their resources in order to introduce new services to market ahead of the competition. The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate the factors that have impact on success and failure in new service development (NSD) in the telecommunication (TLC) sector. The results of the exploratory study are summarized in a conceptual model for further research.

Service Design as an Approach to Implement the Value Cocreation Perspective in New Service Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Yu ◽  
Daniela Sangiorgi
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Service Development ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
A Value ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Value Cocreation ◽  
Multiple Case

Although new service development (NSD) studies have contributed to developing systematic approaches to service innovation, their product-oriented and provider-centric perspectives are limited in embracing a value cocreation concept. We investigate how Service Design, as a human-centered and creative approach to service innovation, can reframe NSD processes to implement value cocreation. Multiple case studies on Service Design projects indicate that design-centric approaches can contribute to the whole NSD process in a way that connects organizations’ managerial practices to value cocreation, in that (1) contextual and holistic understandings of user experiences can inform value propositions that better fit users’ value-in-use, (2) codesign with creative supporting tools can facilitate value cocreation by helping users better apply their own resources, (3) prototyping can optimize firms’ resource and process configuration to facilitate users’ engagement with the service, (4) aligning system actors to the user experience can organize and mobilize them to better support users’ value creation, and (5) user-centered approaches and methods can help organizational staff build long-term capability for supporting users’ value creation. Based on the link between Service Design, NSD, and value cocreation, we propose a conceptual NSD model, geared toward value cocreation.

scholarly journals Ferramentas de inovação de serviços: uma revisão da literatura

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-304
Author(s):  
Marcia Beatriz Cavalcante ◽  
Antonio Hidalgo ◽  
Hélio Gomes de Carvalho ◽  
Gustavo Dambiski Gomes de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Healthcare Education ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Requirements Definition

Objective of the study: This research aims to systematically review the frameworks (i.e. tools) proposed and applied by the literature on service innovation.Methodology / approach: The methodology is based on a systematic literature review, which included two main steps. The former revisited the work of Carlborg, Kindstrom, and Kowalkowski (2014), in which 28 articles were fully analyzed, whereas the latter comprised a complete novel bibliography review employing the Science Direct database, in which 109 articles were fully analyzed. Originality / Relevance: Overall, 87 Service Innovation Tools (SIT) were identified, analyzed, and classified concerning service innovation stages and sector contexts. Besides, the topics of New Service Development (NSD), Service Engineering (SE), and Service Design (SD) were discussed, especially regarding the main stages of the service innovation process.Main results: Results show that 87 SIT were applied in several sectors such as healthcare, education, tourism, among others.Theoretical / methodological contributions: This paper contributes to the literature on both services and innovation by examining a common-ground and under-researched topic: service innovation tools.Social / management contributions: Practitioners may benefit from an overall panorama of service innovation tools available for idea generation, analysis requirements definition, and conceptual design.

The Communication and Information Role on the Innovation Process Performance in the Collaborative Context

2014 ◽  
pp. 162-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Zaninelli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Collaborative Network ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
New Service Development ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Management Quality ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Collaborative Context

Services are at the center of economic activity, and the New Service Development (NSD) process has gained increased attention. Given the complexity involved in this NSD process, it can be carried out by the collaboration of a network of partner companies. In this way, it becomes increasingly relevant to understand the complex NSD process and how this process happens in the Collaborative Network context, contributing to understand how CNs can potentiate NSD process as well as which CN quality factors influence NSD success. This chapter was developed based on a literature review and case studies of four complex New Service Development (NSD) processes. The main objective of this chapter is to emphasize the importance that some CN quality factors, such as information and communication management quality, have along different process stages of innovation services and by consequence the final service success.

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