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On 20th April, Katharina Greve delivered a presentation on ‘Facilitating Co-creation in Living Labs’ at Carlo Cattaneo University (LIUC) in Castellanza, Italy.Living labs are gaining popularity as a new platform for companies to engage with customers in a process of co-creation to understand both existing and emerging user needs. However, facilitat…

The Cambridge Service Alliance hosted the 'Service Community Event' on the 19th April, where service professionals shared their experiences on a wide range of service topics.Dr Florian Urmetzer ran a workshop on ‘Service transformation and ecosystem mapping’ and Dr Mohamed Zaki spoke about ‘Impact of Big Data and Machine Learning technologies on de…

April paper on 'How Can Hackathons Accelerate Corporate Innovation?' by Myrna Flores, Matic Golob, Doroteja Maklin, Martin Herrera, Christopher Tucci, Ahmed Al-Ashaab, Leon Williams, Adriana Encinas, Veronica Martinez, Mohamed Zaki, Lourdes Sosa & Karina Flores PinedaGrowing their popularity amongst entrepreneurial individuals as well as larger org…

March paper on 'A Service Network Perspective to Evaluate Service Matching in Early Design' by Federico Barravecchia, Fiorenzo Franceschini, Luca MastrogiacomoTypically, companies struggle to differentiate their offer from others in a crowded market and new service-oriented strategies are often proposed to gain a competitive advantage. This paper i…

New Membership Model launched for the Alliance.For 2018 the Cambridge Service Alliance has launched a new model for membership. Organisations now have a choice of membership levels with which to engage with the Alliance. There is the top level of Gold membership, which allow organisations to be directly involved in the shape Alliance research takes…

12 March 2018 - Does buyers’ dependence translate into financial performance? An empirical analysis of manufacturer-service provider relationships - Ornella BenedettiniIn this Webinar Ornella Benedettini discusses her Alliance paper titled: 'Does buyers’ dependen­­ce translate into financial performance? An empirical analysis of manufacturer-servic…

Find out about the new membership model and our new Alliance Partner as well as other news from the Service Alliance in this new edition of the newsletter.March 2018 Newsletter Contents: In this IssueNew Membership Model for the AllianceCEMEX join the Alliance as a Gold MemberAlliance 2018 Research ProgrammeCEMEX visit the AllianceCEMEX Hackathon- …

We are delighted to announce that CEMEX has joined the Cambridge Service Alliance as a Gold Member under the Alliance's new Membership Model.About CEMEXCEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high-quality products and reliable service to customers and communities in more than 50 countries throughout the world, and maintains trade…

Dr Myrna Flores, from CEMEX, reports on the the first CEMEX Hackathon in Cambridge, in which members of the Alliance staff took part. It was a successful example of Open and Lean Innovation best practices. Open Innovation looks forward to identifying complex business challenges to co-develop solutions in a collaborative way, bridging problems to…

Ben Lucas and Mohamed Zaki have been awarded one of the Mini-Projects funded from the Centre for Digital Built Britain. The project is on ancillary sensing for building information modelling.Ancillary sensing in the context of BIM concerns drawing new sources of useful information into common data environments used in the design, creation and manag…

Smart Cities Expedition storyteller interviews Katharina Greve on her research into Living Labs and Co-Creation.Katharina Greve recently gave a podcast interview, based on her PhD research, on what cities can learn from companies that employ co-creation. The interview was with Arthur Lankester, who is an expedition storyteller focusing on Innovatio…

February Paper on High-Quality Prediction Intervals for Deep Learning: A Distribution-Free, Ensembled Approach by Tim Pearce, Mohamed Zaki, Alexandra Brintrup, Andy Neely [Paper]Deep neural networks (NNs) have caused great excitement due to the step-changes in performance they have delivered in a variety of applications. However, their appeal in in…

Webinar on 'Digital Business Transformation and Strategy: What do we know so far?' by Mariam Helmy Ismail AbdelaalIn this Webinar Mariam Ismail will discuss the November Paper from the Alliance, on 'Digital Business Transformation and Strategy: What do we know so far?' by Marima H Ismail, Mohamed Khater and Mohamed Zaki. While many companies are ex…

Contextually Defined Postural Markers Reveal Who’s in Charge: Evidence from Small Teams Collected with Wearable Sensors by Julius Dietzel, R. Elena Francu, Benjamin Lucas, and Mohamed ZakiWearable sensor technology presents businesses with compelling opportunities to shed new light on human behavioural processes, within the broader spheres of ubiq…

15 January 2018 - Big Data Analytics Architecture for Businesses - Open Source Perspective - Kerem Kayabay, Mert Golkalp, Mohamed ZakiKerem Kayabay presents the October Paper on 'Big Data Analytics Architecture for Businesses'. Organisations suffer from a comprehensive architecture to manage and monitor the development of existing and new open-sour…