Service Sells | The Innovation Toolkit

We define Service as the experience we provide for our customers and the value it creates, but what perhaps isn’t considered enough is how those customers actually feel about these things that are being done to, or for, them. So how can we find out what our customers really think, and why is it important?

Jon Young is a Research Director at BVA BDRC, specialising in Tourism and Leisure. He provides Sentiment Surveys which give clear insight into consumer sentiment in the visitor economy.

About The Innovation Toolkit with Stephen Spencer

There’s reopening, then there’s building back better, then there’s creating a sustainable long-term future, for our communities, our destinations and for our businesses. The Innovation Toolkit will introduce inspirational people, practical case studies, and innovation-led techniques to foster an innovation mindset and motivate the audience to take action, together, to build forward better.

The Innovation Toolkit is designed to facilitate business journeys from crisis/stagnation to a new sustainable future, via the application of tools and techniques including:

• POSITIVE Compass – a diagnostic tool designed to create a rounded view of the organisation’s current position, challenges and assets. The eight-step process can be facilitated or done as a self-assessment, covering the following:

• Purpose – finding your Why? Mission, vision and values
• Organisation – fit for (a changed) purpose?
• Service – what is your value proposition for customers?
• Innovation – how adaptable are you? How much change is needed?
• Team – who do you rely on to deliver your value proposition?
• Incentive – how effective are your reward and recognition programmes?
• Verdict – what results are you achieving? How will you measure success?
• Energy – how will you drive and sustain momentum?

• Experience Explorer – an innovation process matching assets to consumers and business models, leading to reimagined business with new energy and built for sustainability

InSite – providing a framework and expertise to build a new model, using innovative systems thinking, enabling the new strategy to be implemented with maximum effectiveness and long-term viability.

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