We innovate - under a product dominated thinking approach - to enhance features of products or find new products, to reduce manufacturing costs, or to improve processes.
This follows traditional strategy thinking of differentiation versus cost leadership; and value chains.
All good stuff; from a product dominated thinking mindset.
As we see goods as a way of delivering service, the traditional goods-service continuum makes less sense.
However, we can observe a (self-)service-service continuum. Where we move from predominantly service provider's goods used to transport service through to more use of provider's systems, physical resources and employees.
The continuum exposes various non-functional progress beneficiaries seek to make.
Value - it's more than the price someone is prepared to pay
It is the proposal to help a beneficiary make functional and/or non-functional progress in some aspect of their life. And it is the amount of progress made in use (co-creation of value).
That we measure value today by price paid and/or volume sold is a result of our product-dominant logic view of the world. It turns out, these are proxies we end up using as we are not relational enough. Something service-dominant logic opens our eyes up to.
Cash is everywhere - but what role does it have as we try and look at the economy as service-exchange based?
This is a preliminary view, where I look at cash rather than as a proxy for value, as being service tokens, which supports:
- mediation of temporal and magnitude differences in a service exchange
- enables indirect service exchange
Such a view still allows us to observe common aspects of cash (the desire to acquire as much as possible).
And allows us to maintain our improved view of value - relating to progress being made. In addition to service-service continuum and other behavioural quirks we see.