Value Co-Creation Strategy Formulation for Tusuk Coffee to Enhance Customer Experience
and Satisfaction
Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Teknologi, Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2024 2969
of competitors is increasing. Therefore, Tusuk Coffee must have a strong business
strategy in order to capture market share and increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.
The overall aim of this thesis is to explore the strategies that Tusuk Coffee can
utilize to improve its market position, increase customer satisfaction and successfully
compete in the coffee industry of Banjarmasin, Indonesia. This research will provide
insights into how Tusuk Coffee can differentiate its products, build a strong and
memorable brand identity, provide exceptional customer service, leverage digital
platforms, and establish strategic partnerships to increase customer loyalty and gain
market share. By understanding the current market conditions, consumer preferences, and
the strengths and weaknesses of the company, Tusuk Coffee can develop a strategic and
effective approach to the market that enables it to stand out from its competitors.
Tusuk Coffee is a local coffee shop based in Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan. Its
business includes selling beverages which focus on milk-based coffee. Founded in 2018,
Tusuk comes to fulfil customer with their signature of ready-to-go and fresh best coffee
milk focus. One of their product is Kopi Susu named ‘Tusuk Kota’, it was a huge success
in Banjarmasin and it sold more than 30% averages of sales per month. The success is the
result of being able to understand the market opportunities trend in Banjarmasin of
consuming milk-based coffee came after. There are a lot of challenges within the
speciality coffee industry, a lot of speciality coffee brands itself as an exclusive and
complicated product that also has an expensive price for communities that are interested
in that type of branding but when seeing a lot of times that minority people never spoken
directly and there’s a huge fit within the market to open the aperture a little bit and finally
this is really where Tusuk Coffee came to light flavours (Setiawan, 2020). It can be
overwhelming whenever someone is confused about drinking coffee for a social aspect
or understanding the flavours and quality. Most of them do not enjoy black coffee as their
first coffee experience because they feel the coffee tastes are strong. Milk-based coffee is
a good way to find the perfect simple to start drinking coffee, by trying less coffee and
more milk or flavoured syrups sweetness can ease the impact of stronger coffee. Over
time people will get used to the flavours and naturally slowly build up how much espresso
and lessen the milk and syrup to meet more coffee.
Research Methods
Research Design
Research design is the overall plan and process for conducting research, including
the development of hypotheses, operationalization of variables, and final analysis. In
order to answer research questions, a research design is a blueprint or plan for the
collecting, measuring, and analysis of data (Sekaran & Bougie, 2016). Research designs
in this study are categorized into two main types: exploratory and confirmatory.