Social media as a platform for service innovation

This paper focuses on how innovation takes place for enterprises using Facebook as a channel service innovation in the meeting between the enterprise and the customer. The paper presents two case studies on service innovation initiated through the ICT based customer encounter, where the ICT relation is based on social network technologies. Data for the two cases are collected through interviews and monitoring of Facebook activities. The cases show innovations take place but that the enterprises need a strategy and an organization behind for taking customer introduced ideas to a higher level