Title: Configuring and reconfiguring service value creation model through value shop perspective and service blueprint technique

Authors: Jiun-Hung Lin

Addresses: Department of Marketing and Logistics management, China University of Technique, No. 530, Section 3, Jhong-Shan Road, Hukou Township, Hsin Chu County 303, Taiwan, ROC

Abstract: Nowadays, in the competitive passenger transport market, customer value is the key to retain customers and solidify market share. Value creation and improvement is a competitive strategy for all kinds of business to gain competitive advantage in the market. Value chain analysis is commonly used to configure value creation activity and procedure for their business. For service business, the elements of their value creation model have something different from manufacturing business. Value chain may not be effective for every business. This study proposes the value shop model to be another value creation analysis model for most service business and introduce the service blueprint as a value creation analysis tool to configure and reconfigure the value creation model for service business to gain competitive advantage. A railway company in Taiwan is the empirical case to demonstrate the configuration of value creation model and improve the customer value through reconfiguring the service blueprint.

Keywords: logistics economics; value shop; service blueprint; value chain; value creation models; service value creation; passenger transport; railway companies; Taiwan; railways; trains.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLEG.2008.023160

International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 2008 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.237 - 250

Published online: 12 Feb 2009 *

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