Table III

Literature-based salesperson analysis framework and inductively created customer analysis framework for needed service adoption and readiness aspects

LiteratureManufacturer, internalManufacturer’s customers
Service offering and packaging (e.g. Groß et al., 2017; Raja et al., 2013)Service offering, different ways with different customersService conditions:
 Varying service processes, multiple and varying decision makers, decision criteria
Need to understand and define the service need (e.g. Kindström et al., 2015; Ulaga and Loveland, 2014)Gaining information about customer needsService context:
 Preparatory work needed to make service usable
Importance of relational dynamics, increased customer communication (e.g. Raja et al., 2013; Ulaga and Loveland, 2014)Customers’ role in service sales and implementationSupplier relations:
 Supplier management work needed
Need to understand customers’ business and processes to adapt the service to their need (e.g. Kindström et al., 2015; Neu and Brown, 2005)Needed knowledge about customer processesOrganizational habits and culture:
 Need for deeper changes in the way of working and in the organizational mindset; current habits showing some readiness

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