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In this video Florian Urmetzer explains the benefits of attending the Alliance's two-day executive programme - Shift to ServicesDrawing on the latest work from the Cambridge Service Alliance, this thought-provoking and practical two-day course considers how to design the shift to servicesCustomers increasingly demand services and solutions, not jus…

Anthony Hilton, of the London Evening Standard, attended our Service Week 2017 Industry Day event, and wrote about one of the keynote speakers, from Alibaba, in a recent article.In his article Anthony Hilton reflects on the impact of technology will have on our lives and the difficulty of predicting its impact.  He says of the conference: "...the v…

The October Monthly Paper from the Cambridge Service Alliance, on 'Big Data Analytics Architecture for Businesses, by Mert Onuralp Gökalp, Kerem Kayabay, Mohamed Zaki, Altan Koçyiğit, P. Erhan Eren, and Andy NeelyOrganisations suffer from a comprehensive architecture to manage and monitor the development of existing and new open-source big-data too…

2 October 2017 - Barriers and Facilitators to Incident Reporting in Servitized Manufacturers - Chara MakriChara Makri discusses her July paper on 'Barriers and Facilitators to Incident Reporting in Servitized Manufacturers'. In April 2010, an oil rig owned by Transocean and operated on behalf of BP, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in 11 d…

September Paper by Torsten Steinbach, Carl Marcus Wallenburg and Florian Urmetzer, on using outcome-oriented contracts to foster performance improvements in logistics outsourcing relationships.Using Outcome-oriented Contracts to Foster Performance Improvements in Logistics Outsourcing RelationshipsTorsten Steinbach, Carl Marcus Wallenburg and Flor…

11 September 2017 - Bridging the Co-creation Gap between Co-creators, Companies and Living Lab - Katharina GreveBridging the Co-creation Gap between Co-creators, Companies and Living LabKatharina Greve discusses the May Paper from the Alliance. Living labs offer a new open innovation platform for companies to engage in co-creation. This study offer…

Dr Mohamed Zaki - Deputy Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance - Introducing Service Week Industry Conference 2017Mohamed Zaki introduces this year's Cambridge Service Week - listen to find out all about this theme and speakers for 10 October 2017 'Bridging to New Services Technology.Dr Mohamed Zaki, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Service Al…

Find out the latest news in this new edition of the Alliance Newsletter.The September Newsletter from the Alliance is now available.  Find out what is in this months issue of the Cambridge Service Alliance Newsletter below:Full Newsletter with linksContent:BOOK NOW! Service Week 2017 - Bridging to new service technologyService Week - Academic Confe…

July Community of Interest meeting hosted at Perkins Engines.July saw our latest Community of Interest Meeting, hosted by Perkins Engines, in Peterborough.The interactive partner day was themed around the research ongoing at the Service Alliance on the topics of technology, digital platforms, digital transformation strategy and customer experience …

Dr. Veronica Martinez gave a keynote speech on the 18th July in the AHFE- The Human Side of Service Engineering Conference at CA, US.Veronica presented 'Scaling Services Up: A Critical Success Factor in Servitization'. The co-authors of this research are Prof. Andy Neely, Dr. Pavel Albores and Karolis Siksnius from the Cambridge Service Alliance, R…

The Special Interest Group SIG Round Table 'The Service Engineering in the era of Industry 4.0' at University of Bergamo in Bergamo, ItalyMohamed Zaki was invited to participate in the SIG Round Table held last 1st June, to discuss The Service Engineering in the era of Industry 4.0. the SIG in Service Engineering of IFIP WG 5.7 is organised a camer…

Annual Frontiers Conference at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. The conference will take place on June 22 to June 25, 2017 in New York City.Mohamed Zaki presented his paper with Andy Neely “Customer Experience Analytics: Dynamic Customer-Centric Model”This paper proposes systematic multi-methods using big data and cognitive computin…

Mohamed Zaki invited to be one of the organizing committee members of '19th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics', held in Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-26 July 2017Mohamed Zaki invited to be one of the organizing committee members of '19th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics'. He acted as a workshop chair. IEEE CBI is a well-established confer…

Katharina Greve presented a study “Bridging the Co-creation Gap between Co-creators, Companies and Living lab” (Authors: Katharina Greve, Veronica Martinez, Andy Neely) at the 24th EurOMA conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.The study explores and analyses factors that are critical to the facilitation of co-creation in living labs by integrating findi…