Consumer Creativity Flashcards
What is a consumer creativity?
Berthon et al 2007
These are consumers who adapt, modify, or transform an offering such as a product or service
How is the consumer involved in the creative process of a business?
- Cova et al, 2011
It is the collaboration between the firm and consumer in the manufacturing of products and services
What are some examples of the co-creativeness of companies and consumers?
- Projects as unfinished objects that consumers can finish as their own
- Brand mixing, mixing 2 brands together to create something new-ish
What is a lead user?
A user who faces needs before the majority of the population, and are positioned to benefit from getting a solution to the problem
What are the features of a creative consumer?
- Work with all types of things
- Don’t face needs that will become general: work on personal projects
- Don’t need to benefit directly from their innovations
- Don’t ask permission before experimenting with a firms offering
How many levels are there of consumer level motivators of co-creation
4
What are different types of motivation that customers have behind co-creation?
Hoyer et al, 2010
- Financial
- Social
- Technical
- Psychological
What is the thoughts behind exploitation and consumer co-creation?
Hoyer et al, 2010
Consumers generally contribute their offerings for free and then have to pay a premium for that product
How many approaches can management take to dealing with creative consumers?
4
What are the approaches that management can take towards creative consumer?
Berthon et al, 2007
- Resist
- Discourage
- Enable
- Encourage
Explain the approaches management can take towards consumer creativity:
Berthon et al 2007
- Resist: Actively restrain customer creativity
- Discourage: Tolerate/ignore the behaviour
- Enable: Actively facilitate consumer innovation
- Encourage: Don’t actively facilitate
What are crowds?
Larged organised groups that are gathered together to specifically plan, manage and complete projects
What are hives?
Online communities whose members actually contribute a relatively greater amount to the community, they produce innovations to meet challenges or to meet specific project goals
Who argues that the consumer is always a co-producer?
Vargo & Lusch, 2004
How can you create value in terms of consumer creativity?
Normann & Ramirez 1993
Value can be created through co-producing as it can create offerings that mobilise consumers