Part I Affecting customers: Chapter 1 Introducing affect: Creating enduring engagements -- Chapter 2 Customer drivers: Emotion, affect and the hedonic pursuit -- Part II Affective compan: Chapter 3 Digital connections: Stimulus, channels, touchpoints and typologies -- Chapter 4 Digital business:...

Intro -- Affected -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the authors -- Preface -- Part I Affecting customers -- Chapter 1 Introducing affect: Creating enduring engagements -- Design thinking -- Affect and companies -- Kodak's missed moment -- Second that emotion -- Defining affect -- The affect...

"This Research Handbook includes carefully chosen contributions to provide a well-rounded perspective on design thinking. Encouraging debate and development for future research in design conceptualisation, this forward-thinking Handbook raises crucial questions about what design thinking is and...

Designers have become aware of the importance of creating strong emotional experiences intertwined with new tangible products for the past decade, however an increased interest from firms has emerged in developing new service and business models as complimentary forms of emotion-driven...

Purpose In what is going to be an uncertain and rapidly evolving global economic landscape, it is clear that firms will have to become more adaptive and responsive to changes within their marketplace. To do this, businesses will not only need to engage in business model experimentation but also...