Abstract
Co-creation between customers and providers has recently gained more attention by business service providers as a promising endeavour. The different perspectives of co-creation - innovation, sourcing and marketing - are well deployed. From a provider’s point of view, the question of how to manage business services with respect to co-creation is vitally important. However, service engineering and service lifecycle management typically take a mostly internal, closed-loop approach, although a logical implication of acknowledging the value co-creation perspective on “service” would be to leverage customer and other stakeholder competences to the full extent. This paper aims at reconciling the perspectives of co-creation and makes a contribution by analysing where and how co-creation can be effectively utilised throughout the various stages of a generic business service lifecycle. The result will be a framework guiding companies in using co-creation when managing their business services.
Recommended Citation
Krug, Simone; Korthaus, Axel; Fielt, Erwin; and Leyer, Michael, "Co-Creation in Business Service Lifecycle Management" (2010). ACIS 2010 Proceedings. 27.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2010/27