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This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) offers guidance to leaders of the UK industry that may enable manufacturing and solution providers in all sectors to win business, gain market share, generate revenue, and earn profits from the application of through-life engineering services (TES). This PAS (Publicly Available Specification) was sponsore…

July Paper on 'Coopetition and Business Models' by Chander VeluStudies have shown that firms are increasingly cooperating and competing at the same time in order to create competitive advantage and, hence, deliver superior returns. Shorter product lifecycle, convergence of multiple technologies and increasing costs of conducting R&D require firms t…

9 July 2018 - Modular Service Structures for the Successful Design of Flexible Customer Journeys for AI Services and Business Models - by Christoph Peters and Mohamed Zaki.In this webinar, Christoph Peters discusses his work on Modular Service Structures for the Successful Design of Flexible Customer Journeys for AI Services and Business Models. In…

In collaboration with our Industrial Partners, the July Community of Interest Meeting (CoI) took place at Perkins, in Peterborough. The focus of this year events is on 'How companies can strategically design, pilot and experiment digital services in the new digital age?’In the July event, the Alliance jointly discussed two main research topics:Bloc…

Mohamed's and co-authors paper "The interplay of customer experience and commitment" published in the Journal of Services Marketing has been selected by the Emerald Editorial Team as Highly Commended in the 2018 Emerald Literati AwardsMohamed's and co-authors paper "The interplay of customer experience and commitment" published in the Journal of Se…

Dr Mohamed Zaki was invited to participate in the 2nd Customer management Leadership Group Academic-Practitioner Workshop on 17-19 June at the University of Manchester.Dr Mohamed Zaki was invited to participate in the 2nd Customer management Leadership Group Academic-Practitioner Workshop on 17-19 June at the University of Manchester. The outcome o…

June paper on 'Modular Service Structures for the Successful Design of Flexible Customer Journeys for AI Services and Business Models – Orchestration and Interplay of Services'While we know that seamless customers’ journeys that span several channels are important, research on how firms can best manage and (re-) configure their customers’ journeys …

Katharina Greve attended the 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.Katharina Greve attended the 25th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. The conference paper ‘Co-crea…

11 June 2018 - High-Quality Prediction Intervals for Deep Learning: A Distribution-Free, Ensembled Approach - by Tim Pearce, Mohamed Zaki, Alexandra Brintrup, Andy NeelyIn this webinar, Tim discusses the February Alliance paper. Deep neural networks (NNs) have caused great excitement due to the step-changes in performance they have delivered in a v…

In May, Veronica and her team worked very hard on the first practical phase of the project – the Codification of the Blockchain Prototype for the CAT/Perkins’ Supply Chain. The team started with a webinar presentation for the CAT team about the Blockchain platform technology and applications in services and operations. They moved fast to the diagno…

The OMMS micro-factory project lead by Dr Veronica Martinez made a great progress this month.The OMMS micro-factory project made a great progress this month, we started with a technical meeting to discuss the latest therapeutic treatments for curing cancer and the technology implications for building our wearable device and service business models …

Find out what the Cambridge Service Alliance have been doing and how you can get involved.The June 2018 Newsletter from the Cambridge Service Alliance.

The Cambridge Service Alliance (CSA) Community of Interest (CoI) inaugural programme of Open Innovation Workshops is designed to enable CSA industrial partners to explore potential solutions to future challenges arising from service transformation in the digital era. Industry partners benefit from working closely and dynamically with University of …

by Abdul Rauf Khan, Mohamed Zaki, Henrik Schiøler, and Murat Kulahci. The paper was accepted at 'The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)', a leading international conference in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). In this paper, Mohamed and co-authors propose a novel strategy for data…

In this paper, Mohamed Zaki and Andy Neely propose a systematic multi-methods using a text-mining approach to capture and analyze customers’ dataCreating a strong customer experience is a strategic priority for organizations. Companies are leveraging new technologies such as mobile applications, social media platforms, virtual reality, drones and t…