Manage Customer - Centric Innovation - Systematically  

Oleh:

Selden, Larry ; MacMillan, Ian C.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Harvard Business Review bisa di lihat di link (http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/command/detail?sid=f227f0b4-7315-44a4-a7f7-a7cd8cbad80b%40sessionmgr114&vid=12&hid=105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bth&jid=HBR) vol. 84 no. 4 (Apr. 2006)
Topik: customer; breakthrough innovation; customer relations; customer satisfaction; disruptive technologies; growth strategy; innovation; profitability; R & D; sustainability; value propositions

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No matter how hard companies try, their approaches to innovation often don't grow the top line in the sustained, profitable way investors expect. For many companies, there's a huge difference between what's in their business plans and the market's expectations for growth (as reflected in firms' share prices, market capitalizations, and P / E ratios). This growth gap springs from the fact that companies are pouring money into their insular R & D labs instead of working to understand what the customer wants and using that understanding to drive innovation. As a result, even companies that spend the most on R & D remain starved for both customer innovation and market - capitalization growth. In this article, the authors spell out a systematic approach to innovation that continuously fuels sustained, profitable growth. They call this approach customer - centric innovation, or CCI. At the heart of CCI is a rigorous customer R&D process that helps companies to continually improve their understanding of who their customers are and what they need. By so doing, they consistently create or improve their customer value proposition. Customer R & D also focuses on better ways of communicating value propositions and delivering the complete experience to real customers. Because so much of the learning about customers and so much of the experimentation with different segmentations, value propositions, and delivery mechanisms involve the people who regularly deal with customers, it is essential for frontline employees to be at the center of the CCI process. Simply put, customer R & D propels the innovation effort away from headquarters and the traditional R & D lab out to those closest to the customer. Using the example of the luggage manufacturer Tumi, the authors provide a step - by - step approach for achieving true customer - centric innovation.

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