Co-creation involves redefining the way organizations engage individuals--customers, employees, suppliers, partners, and other stake-holders--bringing them into the process of value creation and engaging them in enriched experi-ences, in order to
--formulate new breakthrough strategies
--design compelling new products and services
--transform management processes
--lower risks and costs
--increase market share, loyalty, and returns
In this pathbreaking book, Venkat Ramaswamy (who coined the term "co-creation "with C. K. Prahalad) and Francis Gouillart, pioneers in working with com-panies to develop co-creation practices, show how every organization--from large corporation to small firm, and government agency to not-for-profit--can achieve "win more-win more" results with these methods. Based on extraordinary research and the authors' hands-on experiences with successful projects in co-creation at dozens of the world's most exciting organizations, "The Power of Co-Creation "illustrates with detailed examples from leading firms such as those above, as well as from Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Ama-zon, Jabil, Predica, Wacoal, Caja Navarra, and many others, how enterprises have used a wide range of "engagement platforms"--and how they have even restructured internal management processes--in order to harness the power of co-creation.
As the authors' wealth of examples make vividly clear, enterprises can no longer afford to view custom-ers and other stakeholders as passive recipients of their products and services but must learn to engage them in defining and delivering enhanced value. Co-creation goes beyond the conventional "process view" of qual-ity, re-engineering, and lean thinking, and is the essential new mind-set and practice for boosting sus-tainable growth, productivity, and profits in the future.
