Valuable Craft: A Co-Creation as a Factor of Success in Zocha Vetiver Root Industry
- Prosiding Internasional
- Dini Turipanam Alamanda, Abdullah Ramdani
- Proceeding of The 3rd Indonesia International Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, & Small Business (IICIES 2011); School of Business and Management ITB Bandung
Abstrak
The vetiver roots (Vetivera ziazinodes) are raw materials for perfume manufacture in a way taken its oil, while
the root itself is usually discarded as waste. Vetiver roots producing fragrant only exist in three places in the
world, namely in Haiti (Central America), Bourbond (French colony), and Garut (Indonesia). Exploit the vetiver
roots waste, now, the Garut small creative industry named Zocha producing the roots into crafts and there is
almost entirely made by hands. By using Non Machine Woven Tool, the vetiver roots become wools and then
become valuable arts and scented crafts. Today, Zocha exports its products to overseas, and tries to develop
cooperation with tourism industry both local and national. Using qualitative approach, this paper tries to utilize five activities of co-creation (customer engagement, self-service, customer involvement, problem solving and codesign) to explore how value co-creation occurs in the context of small creative industry. The findings display a comprehensive framework to help small creative industry operate the value co-creation process by showing that Zocha not only a value facilitator but also a value co-creator
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