{"title":"Traveling from B2B to B2C: Piloting a Moblog Service for Tourists","authors":"P. Repo, Kaarina Hyvönen, Mika Saastamoinen","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2006.46","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Developing new types of popular mobile services has turned out to be a challenging exercise. Our study examines the development of a business-to-business (B2B) mobile service into a business-to-consumer (B2C) service, in this case a moblog service for tourists. We focus on how the product development process can be enhanced and redirected through active user involvement. We came across a number of commercially important issues in this pilot study. Our experiences indicate that user involvement can be a fruitful albeit demanding operation for product developers. Interaction between product developers and users prompted changes in product development.","PeriodicalId":178916,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Mobile Business","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 International Conference on Mobile Business","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2006.46","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Developing new types of popular mobile services has turned out to be a challenging exercise. Our study examines the development of a business-to-business (B2B) mobile service into a business-to-consumer (B2C) service, in this case a moblog service for tourists. We focus on how the product development process can be enhanced and redirected through active user involvement. We came across a number of commercially important issues in this pilot study. Our experiences indicate that user involvement can be a fruitful albeit demanding operation for product developers. Interaction between product developers and users prompted changes in product development.