customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world.customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world. more firms use satisfaction ratings as an indicator of the performance of products and services and as an indicator of the company’s future. as lately shown companies that are able to identify customer needs and alig...

We propose a method, e3-service, to reason about satisfying customer needs (problems stated by the consumer) by means of a bundle of multi-supplier service bundles (solutions from specific suppliers). The e3-service method represents customer needs, desired consequences by the customer, and the services that realize those consequences in a multi-perspective service catalogue. This catalogue is ...

In order to design new services in e-mobility, the knowledge of customer needs is crucial. In this paper, we compare the results from a literature review about customer needs with the results from harvesting a modern data source: micro blog data.

The product design concept selection is an integral part of product development process. It is a team based decision making effort to evaluate the product design concepts generated. In the present competitive market environment, the design team has to identify the design solution which should reflect the customer needs to ensure customer satisfaction. In this paper an attempt has been made to d...

To better understand customer requirements in mass customization, we introduce here a model distinguishing between the objective and the subjective customers’ needs. The model points out that the explicitly expressed customer requirements do not necessarily correspond to what customers really want. This model enables the explanation of the main shortcomings of the existing customer interaction ...

In the current manufacturing environment of intense competition, mass customization becomes a crucial capability for a company to survive. Acquiring and identifying customer needs is an important aspect of mass customization. Emotional terms are often included in the description of customer needs and customer evaluations. At the same time, products that consider emotion responses and evoke posi...