Frameworks towards a virtual co-creation tool for fuzzy front-end of service development in health care context
: Lahtinen Katriina, Aaltonen Satu, Järvinen Marika, Teittinen Outi, Pirttimäki Mikko
: Jon Sundbo, Lars Fuglsang, Flemming Sørensen, Nanna Balsby
: European association for research on services conference
: Roskilde, Denmark
: 2015
: The 25th Annual RESER Conference ”Innovative Services in the 21st Century” Proceedings
: 978-87-7349-921-4
: http://ruconf.ruc.dk/ocs_pics/RESER2015/RESER2015_Proceedings.pdf
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/1662464
This paper combines entrepreneurial behaviour and innovation with design thinking in order to investigate the use of the IdeaWindow, the ict-based tool planned for employee-driven service development, in a health care organisation. The tool enables participation of heterogeneous group of people to fuzzy front-end of service development. The paper asks how virtual tool can be used for tackling the unknown - tacit knowledge, hidden possibilities and initiatives in this context. What kind of perspectives and topics the employees bring up when using a virtual tool in the front-end of service development. The results are based on IdeaWindow entries and electronic survey data collected in Finnish hospital ward.