Search for dissertations about: "customer participation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words customer participation.
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1. Community-based customer involvement for improving packaged software development
Abstract : Noting the widespread use of virtual communities for interacting with customers, this thesis explores the role of virtual communities for involving distributed customers in packaged software development (psd) and the opportunities and challenges that are associated with this. While the idea of involving customers in software development is not new, it is yet to gain momentum in psd. READ MORE
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2. From Customer Satisfaction to Citizen Interaction : a cooperation model for community development based on Total Quality Management
Abstract : Current problems with unemployment and the consequences of cut-down in the public sector need appropriate solutions, where private citizens perhaps take on more active roles than today, individually or in groups. The aim with this doctoral thesis is to contribute to one such solution, which is a cooperation model for societal development in local communities, based on Total Quality Management (TQM) and on the participation of many residents. READ MORE
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3. Extending the Service Innovation Concept : Realization and Productivity
Abstract : The purpose of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of service innovation by exploring realization as a part of service innovation. Service innovation can be described as something that creates value for customers through new service offerings or service processes while realization refers to the actual use or deployment of the service. READ MORE
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4. Organisational value of participating in quality award processes
Abstract : Total Quality Management (TQM) is sometimes considered to be a continuously evolving management system consisting of values, methodologies and tools, the aim of which is to increase external and internal customer satisfaction with a reduced amount of resources. Whether TQM improves the performance of and strengthens values within organisations has been discussed for several years. READ MORE
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5. Learning from members : tools for strategic positioning and service innovation in trade unions
Abstract : The formal governance structure is more complex in trade unions than in many other organizations. Trade union researchers have drawn attention to the tensions between union administrative and representative systems and the fact that control in unions is bi-directional from leaders to members (through formal control systems), and from members to leaders (through democratic structures). READ MORE