Tag: Erkki Salo

  • Master Thesis: Empowering Child Sponsorship with Service-Dominant Logic

    In this blog post, I Introduce my master thesis and share some of my personal experiences from the MBA studies. As part of my master thesis (which can be downloaded from here: Salo Erkki Master Thesis) I developed a Service-Dominant Logic based business model canvas application for child sponsorship organizations. With the help of the canvas, value…

  • Experiences from the 5th Annual SID Seminar

    The 5th  Annual Service Innovation and Design Seminar was held on March 14th 2013 at Laurea Leppävaara. Almost 200 participants with different backgrounds shared this day by learning and discussing how to create more value with customers. Morning keynote sessions: Co-creating value with customers Customers need to be involved in service design process, explained Nicholas Ink, co-author of…

  • Facilitating an awesome ideation workshop

    “Service design cannot be learnt by reading, but through practice” described Marc Stickdorn, co-author of the black book “This is Service Design: Basics, Tools Cases” (2011). Marc Stickdorn held three days intensive service design workshop for Laurea SID Master of Business Administration students. Workshop focused on how to facilitate service design ideation workshops. This blog post…

  • Competing with Business Models

    “If you are not thinking about business models, you are an irresponsible leader.” Co-author of Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) Alexander Osterwalder challenged Finnish business experts in Business Model Innovation Seminar in Helsinki 6th of November 2012.  He stated business models makes organizations thrive or die. “We will have more industries where companies…

  • Hey executive! A few tips to make your organization strategically agile

    “The only thing constant is change” – Heraclitus We know your job as an executive is getting tougher and tougher no matter in what business you´re in. Operating environment is getting more and more competitive, fast based, complex, turbulent and blurry. You have probably noticed that the “old” way of thinking about the strategy and…

  • Service Innovation: (Having a) Meeting with Customer Needs

    Vast number of new service concepts fail (> 4 out of 10), because they are build first and then introduced to the market (Bettencourt, 2010). The focus should be another way around and shifted away from the service solutions and back to the customer. Rather than asking, “How are we doing?” companies must began asking…