A Service Process Positioning Framework for Co-Productive Services

G. Roels
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In manufacturing, process positioning frameworks are useful mental maps for guiding process reengineering. In contrast, there is no equivalent analytical framework for services despite their importance in today's economy. One reason might have been a lack of clear understanding of what truly defines a service -- until the emergence of the joint-production paradigm. In this paper, we develop a process positioning framework for co-productive services based on an analytical model of joint production between a service provider and a customer. We show that, as a task becomes more routine, it is desirable to decouple efforts, i.e., to make the provider's and the customer's efforts more substitutable, and to shift the service boundary to either the customer or the provider, whoever is the most efficient. Conversely, as a task becomes less routine, it is optimal to make efforts more complementary and to involve both parties in the service delivery. Based on our model, we offer prescriptions to improve service delivery efficiency and effectiveness.
协同生产服务的服务流程定位框架
在制造业中,流程定位框架是指导流程再造的有用心理图。相比之下,尽管服务业在当今经济中很重要,但却没有相应的分析框架。一个原因可能是缺乏对真正定义服务的清晰理解——直到联合生产模式的出现。在本文中,我们基于服务提供者和客户之间联合生产的分析模型,开发了协同生产服务的过程定位框架。我们表明,当任务变得更加常规时,需要解耦努力,即使提供者和客户的努力更具可替代性,并将服务边界转移到客户或提供者,谁是最有效的。相反,当一项任务变得不那么常规时,最理想的做法是使工作更具互补性,并让双方都参与到服务提供中来。根据我们的模型,我们提供处方,以提高服务提供的效率和效果。
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