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Customer Centricity and involvement in Swedish fintech innovation: An exploratory research on the customers role in Swedish fintech
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM).
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM).
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Kundfokusering och engagemang i svensk fintech innovation (Swedish)
Abstract [en]

Fintech has had a huge growth in Sweden during the last decades. Increased competition has made companies compete over resources to attend to customer needs. The access to customer knowledge is one of those resources. This thesis is exploring the if, how and when companies within the Swedish fintech industry use customer knowledge and customers in co-creation processes. The research was conducted with a literature review and empirically investigated with semi-structured interviews. The findings imply that customer knowledge and customer involvement is present in Swedish fintech. Companies in Swedish fintech don’t use only one approach to involve customers but rather switch according to convenience. When it comes to the phases of innovation the findings imply that companies mostly involve customers in the ideation phase and customers in an intermediate phase between development and commercialization where there are a lot of iterative interactions between customer and company.

Abstract [sv]

Fintech har haft en enorm tillväxt i Sverige under de senaste decennierna. Ökad konkurrens har fått företag att konkurrera om resurser för att tillgodose kundernas behov. Tillgången till kundkännedom är en av dessa resurser. Detta examensarbete undersöker om, hur och när företag inom den svenska fintech branschen använder kundkunskap och kunder i samskapande processer. Forskningen genomfördes med en litteraturgenomgång och empiriskt undersökt med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultaten tyder på att kundkännedom och kundengagemang finns inom den Svenska fintech industrin. Företag inom svensk fintech använder inte bara ett tillvägagångssätt för att involvera kunder utan byter snarare efter bekvämlighet. När det gäller innovations faserna antyder resultaten att företag mest involverar kunder i idéfasen och kunder i en mellanfas mellan utveckling och kommersialisering där det sker många iterativa interaktioner mellan kund och företag.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 46
Series
TRITA-ITM-EX ; 2022:224
Keywords [en]
Customer knowledge, Customer Centricity, Co-creation, Innovation, Fintech, Sweden
Keywords [sv]
Kundkunskap, Kundcentricitet, Samskapande, Innovation, Fintech, Sverige
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Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-317547OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-317547DiVA, id: diva2:1695299
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Available from: 2022-09-13 Created: 2022-09-13 Last updated: 2022-09-13Bibliographically approved

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