{"id":48308,"date":"2021-09-09T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/as-part-of-the-structural-decisions-taken-within-the-operations-context-product-and-service\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:44:56","slug":"as-part-of-the-structural-decisions-taken-within-the-operations-context-product-and-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/as-part-of-the-structural-decisions-taken-within-the-operations-context-product-and-service\/","title":{"rendered":"As part of the structural \ndecisions taken within the operations context, product and service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the structural <br \/> decisions taken within the operations context, product and service <br \/> design is a key element for organizations\u2019 success. Today, many <br \/> companies promote more creative, collaborative and value-added oriented <br \/> design processes in order to better respond to customer needs. This <br \/> approach is known as design thinking. <\/p>\n<p>First, view the following video: <br \/>Brown, T. (2009).\u00a0Designers\u2014think big!\u00a0TED.\u00a0 [Video File]. Retrieved from:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tim_brown_urges_designers_to_think_big?language=en <\/p>\n<p>Then: read the article: <br \/>Yen, S. (2014).\u00a0How Design Thinking Drives Competitive Advantage.\u00a0Forbes. Retrieved from:\u00a0http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sap\/2014\/08\/11\/how-design-thinking-drives-competitive-advantage\/#7c1f8eaa7a53\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Answer the following: <br \/>Do you agree that simplicity is nowadays a key competitive advantage? Explain why or why not. <br \/>What other factors do you consider relevant for adding value to customers? <br \/>Share some experiences about technology products or services that have added value to you as a customer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the structural decisions taken within the operations context, product and service design is a key element for organizations\u2019 success. Today, many companies promote more creative, collaborative and value-added oriented design processes in order to better respond to customer needs. This approach is known as design thinking. First, view the following video: Brown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-48308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}