Value Driven Transformation of Care Work – A Use Case
Abstract
A holistic design of person-related services, like care work, requires a combined vision, that takes into consideration the customer’s, as well as the care-giver’s, and the organizational perspective. This is especially important when agile and collaborative work-systems are being implemented in person-related service systems, as different perspectives - and therefore beliefs, needs and values of the people involved - are to be considered. This paper presents a new perspective on values that need to be mapped and shaped when agile work systems in care-giving services are being designed. As a result, it describes a transformational process that has, at its center, concrete collaboration and service values out of which practical implications and an organization (re-)design process is deduced. This leads to a value-driven transformational process that takes into account all aspects of an organization to sustainably develop person-related service systems and that challenges existing service management and design approaches.