Service Innovation and Management

Digitalization, Service Infusion and Customer Experience

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2025 | 2025 ed.
Springer International Publishing AG (Verlag)
978-3-031-76559-9 (ISBN)

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This open access book investigates how digitalization and service infusion are changing service provision and the customer experience. It highlights the central role of service management and service innovation in making these changes not only appear in theory but also implementing them in business practice. At the beginning of the 21st century, many manufacturing firms struggled to exploit the financial potential of service businesses, a phenomenon described as the service paradox. While many manufacturing firms are still struggling with this paradox, several firms (both service and manufacturing firms) are simultaneously struggling with digitalization. This phenomenon can be viewed as the digitalization paradox, i.e., as a situation in which companies invest in digitalization but struggle to reach the expected revenue growth. By applying the lens of service innovation to digitalization and service infusion, the book showcases how firms can overcome the service and digitalization paradoxes, transform service provision, and improve the customer experience. It offers comprehensive coverage, blending literature reviews, conceptualizations, empirical illustrations, and case studies to offer a multifaceted perspective on corporate strategies, illuminating pathways to address the challenges posed by the service and digitalization paradoxes.

Built on the latest research from the CTF – Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, this book offers a valuable resource for managers seeking practical strategies and approaches to enhance their understanding and implementation of service management and marketing principles. It will also appeal to academics with an interest in service management and marketing.

Lars Witell is a Professor at the CTF – Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden. He also holds a position as Professor in Business Administration at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interests include service innovation, customer experience, and service infusion in manufacturing firms. Over the past 20 years, he has led large research programs in collaboration with industry.

Managing service towards better customer experiences: Digitalization, service infusion, and service innovation.- Service management: Evolution and moving forward.- Service management through service platforms and digitalization.- Strategies for service growth.- Value co-creation through collaboration: The case of efficient load out.- Configure to conquer – implementing configurators to improve competitiveness.- Enabling a Circular Economy through Green Service Strategies.- A Little Bit of That Human Touch – Avoid and Recover Service Failures.- Enhancing the phygital customer experience in the digital world.- Balancing value propositions with privacy: Exploring data-driven digital wellness business models.- Service innovation in the eyes of customers: The Swedish innovation index.- B2B service innovation: How business customers perceive firm innovativeness.- Service innovation in healthcare: Service today versus service tomorrow.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	Future of Business and Finance
Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; Approx. 180 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	3-031-76559-1 / 3031765591
ISBN-13	978-3-031-76559-9 / 9783031765599
Zustand	Neuware