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... experience is a function of parameters that go beyond direct experience from the core product. To enrich customer experience, Vandermerwe (2004) introduced “Customer- Activity Cycle” approach. The approach presents three stages - the pre , during and post , and argues for identifying opportunities for providing new kinds of value to customer at each stage of critical experience. At a renal clinic, for example, the busi- ness-director, collaborated with customers map all the treatment activities – pre : when customer are deciding what to do, during : when customers are doing what they decided on and post : when cus- tomers are maintaining the results (Figure 1.) She emphasized that any disruption in the flow of cus- tomer-activity cycle creates value gaps, or disconti- nuities, that opens access to competitors, unless the company fills the gaps first with value add-ons. The activity cycle approach gives a customer- focus company an objective mean for exploring the value gaps and filling them with breakthrough val- ues. It is broad and explorative, and firms needs clear vision on which activities it is willing to ...
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... The three different retail models differ on the product level extensively. This cluster of differences is based on the buying behavior stages from (Kalakota & Whinston, 1996), the customer-activity cycle (Vandermerwe, 2000), and customer delivery value chain as stated by Kalyanaram and Aung (2015). These also include all the dynamic of the interaction with the product which is the soul of the retail industry. ...
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... In the scope of the paper, the definition in [11] is followed. A conceptual framework for customer experience enhancement is proposed in [20] shown in Fig. 2, that could help the retailers to identify and work on specific "offer zones" to be focused on while designing customer experience in businesses. ...
... Authors in [14] presented a mobile Augmented Reality application which provides customers with product information to assist them in making buying decisions. Pedro Lopes et al. [7] present a smart phone based Mixed Reality application (SPMRA) and [20] concluded through subjective experiments in Germany and Sri Lanka that 84.1% of SPRMA users agreed to the fact that the application assisted and influenced them in making their buying decisions in stores. Automobile manufacturers such as BMW [4] and Volvo [5] has been using Microsoft HoloLens to visualize 3D holograms of automobiles, models, prototypes without the presence of the actual machinery assisting both the manufacturing and the customer showroom experience. ...
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