Driving Service Productivity Value-Creation Through Innovation

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this exactly mean

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John Bessant Claudia Lehmann Kathrin M. Möslein Editors

Driving Service Productivity Value-Creation Through Innovation

Management for Professionals

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John Bessant • Claudia Lehmann • Kathrin M. Mo¨slein Editors

Driving Service Productivity Value-Creation Through Innovation

Editors John Bessant University of Exeter Business School Exeter United Kingdom

Claudia Lehmann Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation (CLIC) HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig Germany

Kathrin M. Mo¨slein HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Friedrich-Alexander-Universita¨t Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg Nu¨rnberg Germany

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Preface

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this