A major challenge in service design is the ability to generate useful service concepts for development. New service concepts, however, are often difficult for customers to articulate. In this study we address the idea generation stage of the service development process and suggest the...

Contemporary information systems (IS) products and services must fulfill the needs of consumers that are more widely scattered than traditional organizational end-users. New ways to incorporate these wide-audience end-users in the IS development are required. The lead-user method used in new...