“The customer experience, in all its different facets, is moving into the focus of innovation management.(…) Firms have started abandoning the transactional and product-oriented view of customer relationships. Instead, they have begun to design and align all their interactions with a customer so that consistent experience cycles evolve. Practical product functions are becoming a commodity and the communicational functions as well as the symbolic environment are becoming competitive differentiators. The product is thus merely one element to develop and is to be embedded in an equally important environment of consistent and meaningful customer touch points. The key challenge for firms is to handle the dispersion of responsibilities for relevant touch points across functions and business partners. Therefore, this research explores the means for an effective management of the experience design activities.”

(Torsten Lars Brodt)