Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy Value and Worth [Hardcover]

This book provides practical advice to help readers innovate and identify new business models, products and services within the connected digital economy.Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity for business, with a focus on new business models and the personalisation of products and services. This book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students.Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity for business, with a focus on new business models and the personalisation of products and services. This book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students.Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy looks at how digitisation is radically changing the way we buy and experience products and services. Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity, including the need to design and scale future business models to better fit 'lived lives', creating value as well as increasing worth so that new markets can emerge. The book provides a conceptual framework and practical advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to develop future products and services that take advantage of connectivity and serve contexts better. With its accessible language, numerous case examples and illustrations to illuminate challenging concepts, this book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students of service science, business and engineering.Preface; 1. Introduction and impact of digitisation on markets; 2. Back to basics - what is value?; 3. Value and context; 4. Lifting the lid off context: the contextual experience; 5. Value and exchange; 6. Rise of the digital economy; 7. Back to basics in value creation - a thl#Ÿ