Setting the stage for service experience: design strategies for functional services

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Beltagui, Ahmad, Candi, Marina and Riedel, Johann Christian Karl Henry (2016) Setting the stage for service experience: design strategies for functional services. Journal of Service Management, 27 (5). pp. 751-772. ISSN 1757-5818

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Abstract

Purpose:This research identifies service design strategies to improve outcome-oriented services by enhancing consumers’ emotional experience, while overcoming customer variability.

Design/methodology/approach:An abductive, multiple-case study involves 12 service firms from diverse online and offline service sectors.

Findings: Six service design strategies represent two overarching themes: Customer empowerment can involve design for typical customers, visibility, and community building, while customer accommodation can involve design for personas, invisibility, and relationship building. Using these strategies helps set the stage for a service to offer an emotional experience.

Research limitations/implications:The study offers a first step toward combining investigations of service experience and user experience. Further research can strengthen these links.

Practical implications:The six design strategies described using examples from case research offer managerial recommendations. In particular, these strategies can help service managers address the customer-induced variability inherent in services.

Originality/value:Extant studies of experience staging have focused on particular sectors such as hospitality and leisure; this study contributes by investigating outcome-focused services and identifying strategies to create unique experiences that offset variability. It also represents a rare effort to combine research from service management.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/798200
Keywords: Service experience, Customer experience, Service design, Service management, Interaction design, Emotional design
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > Nottingham University Business School
Identification Number: 10.1108/JOSM-08-2015-0234
Depositing User: Howis, Jennifer
Date Deposited: 22 Feb 2017 14:54
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:58
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/40728

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