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The Design Journal VOLUME 18, ISSUE 1
PP 9–30
9 The Design Journal DOI: 10.2752/175630615X14135446523189
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From Goods to
Service Logic:
Service Business
Model Requirements
in Industrial Design
Firms
Magnus Eneberg
Lund University, Sweden
Lisbeth Svengren Holm
University of Borås, Sweden
ABSTRACT The design thinking concept
emphasizes the actual activity of solving
problems with a design approach,
associating it to the designer’s knowledge
and competence instead of the intimate
link between design and the physical
object. Yet design consultancies still
have problems charging for intangible
components in their offerings and for the
role of strategic consultants. We argue
that the design thinking concept is in line
with a service-dominant logic rather than a