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To what extent can user-led innovation create breakthroughs in an industry? Employing relevant concepts and frameworks from the module examine the role of users in the innovation process and evaluate the contention that “the user is king”.

Your argument should be supported by well-chosen and well researched examples.

 

User led innovation, is a newly emerging phenomenon which basically relies upon understanding customer needs and then incorporating them in the product design and the services provided by the company which stand unparalleled by its competitors.

In technical terms, this term refers to the innovation by the actual users rather than the producers or the suppliers of the product or service.

Considering that the product is essentially designed to meet the maximum possible need of its consumer, it still does not touch the concept of meeting individual needs equally.

Therefore, customers usually modify the purchased product for them to obtain a maximum productive outcome which not only is effective in delivering its purpose but efficient as well.

Many will argue that the customer already was the central point of product related decisions made by the company, but the difference that lies here is that this innovation approach establishes a systematic process of identifying and thoroughly studying customer needs  which encompasses the social science domain of analytical approaches to understand the customer psyche better.

In technical terms, this term refers to the innovation by the actual users rather than the producers or the suppliers of the product or service.To what extent can user-led innovation create

Hence, the customer is the focal point and the mere strive to fulfill the customer’s needs and requirements in a better way making the company strive for innovation.

Companies do have a profit-making interest vested in this approach as well, but it is not immediate gratification, rather it is realized at a later stage….