Joint service development – the creations of the prerequisite for the service development
Managing Service Quality: An International Journal
ISSN: 0960-4529
Article publication date: 20 January 2012
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to describe how parted or divided service development is carried out, where interactions and cooperation need to take place with other actors in order to create the foundations for the service, in the form of a coherent specification of the extended service concept.
Design/methodology/approach
This study builds empirically on an in‐depth longitudinal case‐study approach using data from a development project within the public transport sector. By the time this study is published, the phase that deals with the development of the system requirements and specifications will be in its final stages, while the next phase – the actual creation of the technology‐based systems and the test launch – will have been initiated.
Findings
In this study, three important groups of actors were identified. The first group, the information carriers, are the actors from the different organisations participating in the project who possess the important knowledge that should be tapped out and translated. The second group is the translators who are the ones that gather the knowledge from the other actors and interpret and translate this knowledge. In order to make this possible and to facilitate the process, the third group, the supporting actors or facilitators, plays an important role.
Originality/value
This study provides an alternative view of new service development from a knowledge transfer perspective, which is in contrast to the highly structured and sequenced models that have characterised most of the existing research on service development.
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Citation
Gottfridsson, P. (2012), "Joint service development – the creations of the prerequisite for the service development", Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/09604521211198092
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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