• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.259-269
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• 2013

Customer satisfaction is an ever-growing concern of management throughout the world. To find the way to increase customer satisfaction, we must understand customer requirements. Kano distinguishes between three types of product requirements(:must-be, one-dimensional, attractive requirements which influence customer satisfaction in different ways when met. Timko has developed customer satisfaction(CS) coefficient based on Kano model. The CS coefficient is indicative of how strongly a product feature may influence satisfaction. As there were a few limitations on the Kano's method and on the Timko's customer satisfaction index method. The objective of this study is to provide improved methodology based on the Kano's method. One case studies are solved by the proposed method.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.547-560
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• 2017

Purpose: This study investigates the effect of CRM activities of Korean equipment construction companies on the quality satisfaction perceived by consumers as an analysis method using Kano model. Methods: It use the Kano model to classify the quality characteristics of the CRM activities of equipment construction companies, focusing on consumer perception, and analyze the effect on the level of quality satisfaction perceived by consumers. Results: The results showed that most of quality attributes of CRM activities in the equipment companies were categorized as 'one-dimensional' quality. Conclusion: The CRM activities in equipment construction compaies is verified to be essential component of successful strategy to improve customer's satisfaction.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.491-503
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• 2008

As customer needs become diversified, there are many efforts to develop creative ideas on the products to satisfy the customer requirement. Also it is very important to classify the customer requirement to the product's quality. According to the previous study, the idea of the products by collecting opinions and brainstorming is mainly studied in new product development. To create the attractive quality for the product, Kano model has commonly been used. However, the brainstorming in the stage of create ideas has the problem of lower linkage between purpose and idea and lower quality of new idea. Therefore, the paper suggests a way to invent more creative ideas by comparing forced connection method to the brainstorming that is applied to the Kano model.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.31-42
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• 2009

Various studies have been undertaken in order to effectively understand customer requirements. Kano proposed a dualistic approach, physical fulfillment and customer satisfaction, to differentiate Attractive, Must-be, One-dimensional quality attributes. As there were a few limitations on the Kano's method, researchers have proposed improved methods. However, there have been few empirical evidences that the improved methods are superior to the original Kano's method for identifying relevant quality attributes. The objective of this study is to provide a comparative study on Kano and improved Kanomethods based on empirical analysis of quality attributes on University services. For the analysis of the questionnaire formats, the Kano's original 5 scale questionnaire is more effective than improved methods, direct and 3 scale questionnaire. For the analysis of evaluation methods, the original Kano and Timko's method using the evaluation table are more effective than quantifying methods, Domouchel and Lim's methods.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.107-121
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• 2018

This study investigates the effects of the Kano model on the product quality and quality satisfaction on the FDM low cost 3D printer, which is used by consumer and makers. 3D printer product quality is analyzed in terms of functionality, usability, durability, reliability and safety based on the inherent quality of the product itself. This study were tested using Kano analysis to calculate the product detail characteristics and Timko coefficient to calculate the degree of satisfactory effects of the 3D printer. As a result, this study becomes product size, the output speed, durability against external impact as attractive quality and the safety part is regarded as One-dimensional quality. With the exception of surface resolution, the Timko customer satisfaction index was the same as the Kano model.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.109-132
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• 2018

Recently, new financial services related to FinTech has gained attention more and more. Online P2P financial services transactions such as FinTech require careful examination of the constituents of information systems as an investment is made based on the information presented on the online platform without direct face-to-face contact. The purpose of this study is to find out the success factors of online P2P Lending service among FinTech. To serve the purpose, we build IS (information system) success model, and then use Kano model and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy-AHP) to find out factors for the success of online P2P Lending service. In particular, this study uses Kano model to classify information system satisfaction factors and to calculate the satisfaction coefficient. The Kano model, however, has a drawback of evaluating single criterion. Therefore, we use multi-criteria decision-making technique such as Fuzzy-AHP to derive the relative importance of the factors. The analysis results show different results depending on the analysis technique. In the Kano model, most of the information system factors are a one-dimensional quality attribute. The satisfaction coefficient is highest for personalized service, followed by the responsiveness of service, ease of using a system, understanding of information, usefulness of information' reliability. The service reliability is the highest in dissatisfaction coefficient, followed by system security, service responsiveness, system stability, and personalized service. The results of the Fuzzy-AHP analysis shows that the usefulness of information quality, the personalization of service quality, and the security of system quality are the significant factors and the stability of system quality was a secondary factor.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.73-91
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• 2011

This research aims to compare the features and environments for media acceptance of tablet against laptop computer in the u-Learning environment. While it is need to accept suitable media for u-Learning learner, most of existing research has focused on finding factors which can affect perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on extended technology acceptance model and how to fulfill those factors. Thus this research drew four categories need to use media in the u-Learning environment, then adopts Kano's model and IPA methodology. The results by Kano's model identify exciting and basic attributes which do not match overall satisfaction of learners. Moreover the research analyses by IPA methodology illustrate whether the factors considered important by learners are fulfilled. The research also emphasis the significance of enhancing relative importance as well as satisfaction of the properties for media acceptance in the u-Learning environment.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.118-127
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• 2018

Recently, service quality must reflect several demands of customers who show rapid and various changes so as to be compared with the past. So, objective and rapid measuring methods for service quality are necessary. For them, first of all, service company must calculate their standard of service quality accurately by measuring service quality exactly. Kano classified the degree of influence that is the degree of correspondence of the quality attributes of products and services to the subjective satisfaction of customers. As a result, the types of qualities are classified as attractive, must be, one dimensional, and indifference attributes. They have been widely used quality attributes in various industrial fields up to now. However, Kano model has a limit that it ignores the characters of the next frequent numbers even though there are not much gap comparing to the most frequent number in the questionnaire answers. The limit is attributed to the character of Kano model that the most frequent number is accepted as the only quality character. Timko calculated the customer satisfaction coefficient by using Kano's method and studied the differences in quality character by classifying the quality characteristics in a graphical way through the relationship between the satisfaction and the dissatisfaction coefficient. In this study, we used the quality level determination method of the 7-point Likert scale, which takes the weight into account, to complement the deficiencies of the existing Kano model. We also developed and applied a Potential Satisfaction Level (P) and Potential Customer Demand Improvement (PCDI) Index to present a new approach to the determination of service quality attributes. To measure the level of potential service satisfaction and to understand the degree of improvement, we collected specimens of 51 participants who has been trained in the National Strategy Business Training Program, which has been managed by government agent, and analyzed the results.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.41-55
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• 2018

For several decades, attribute classification methods using the asymmetrical relationship between an attribute performance and the satisfaction of that attribute have been explored by numerous researchers. In particular, the Kano model, which classifies quality attributes into 5 elements using simple questionnaire and two-dimensional evaluation table, has gained popularity: Attractive, One-dimensional, Must-be, Indifferent, and Reverse quality. As Kano's model is well accepted, many literatures have introduced categorization methods using the Kano's evaluation table at attribute level. However, they applied different terminologies and classification criteria and this causes confusion and misunderstanding. Therefore, a criterion for quality classification at attribute level is necessary. This study is aimed to suggest a new attribute classification method that sub-categorizes quality attributes using 5-point ordinal point and Kano's two-dimensional evaluation table through an extensive literature review. For this, the current study examines the intrinsic and extrinsic problems of the well-recognized Kano model that have been used for measuring customer satisfaction of products and services. For empirical study, the author conducted a comparative study between the results of Kano's model and the proposed method for an e-learning case (33 attributes). Results show that the proposed method is better in terms of ease of use and understanding of kano's results and this result will contribute to the further development of the attractive quality theory that enables to understand both the customers explicit and implicit needs.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.37-45
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• 2022

It is well known that the Kano model measures customer satisfaction and classifies quality attributes into must-be, attractive as well as one-dimensional. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamics of e-learning quality attributes by applying the proposed method using Kano's satisfaction index in the rapidly changing online learning environment. For this, the current study examined 27 e-learning quality attributes and conducted a comparative study using Kano's results obtained in 2013 and 2020. The result shows that the dynamics of quality attributes suggested by Kano(2001) is confirmed in the case of e-learning. The proposed approach shows better results in terms of Kano's direct classification method, and has potential application areas such as IPA(Importance-Performance Analysis) in the area of risk assemement. Some suggestions for better understanding of the proposed SI-DI diagram are also included in this study.