What is it about?

The purpose of this study is to highlight the understanding of the consequent factors of new services development (NSD) in the literature owing to the impact on organizational competitiveness, especially in professional services, such as that investigated by health plan operators in the present study. The sample (customer of family health plans) consisted of 255 valid cases. For the analysis of the data, multivariate statistical techniques were used through the modeling of structural equations.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

The results found evidence of the significant relationships between the NSD considering the constructs, client orientation, reputation, professional competences and customer retention, as consequences of the NSD, which impact on the success of the new services launched by the health plan operator from the perception of the customer.

Perspectives

This implies that health plan operators need to develop new customer-oriented services by investing in new technologies and having more trained and qualified staff so that they can deliver superior services and, as a consequence, have a more profitable relationship with customers. The new services may result in greater organizational performance and greater competitiveness for health service providers.

PhD Gabriel Sperandio Milan
Unisinos - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Read the Original

This page is a summary of: New services development: a study in the context of a health organization, International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, November 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijqss-08-2017-0072.
You can read the full text:

Read

Contributors

The following have contributed to this page