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More and more firms use connected technologies to reshape fundamentally the way in which they interact with their customers. Rather than having few episodic interactions, companies are trying to create a continuous relationship with their customers that reduces friction and allows companies to anticipate the needs of their customers. In this chapter, we discuss new business models enabled by this development. We do so by reviewing some of the literature on after-sales services in general and some of Morris Cohen’s pioneering research in particular. We then extend this prior work by articulating a framework of “Connected Strategy” in the form of a taxonomy of four connected customer experiences. Finally, we apply our Connected Strategy framework to the domain of healthcare delivery.
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Siggelkow, N., Terwiesch, C. (2022). New Business Models for the Digital Age: From After-Sales Services to Connected Strategies. In: Lee, H., Ernst, R., Huchzermeier, A., Cui, S. (eds) Creating Values with Operations and Analytics. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08871-1_2
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