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Service Systems Implementation

  • Enables the reader to design, improve and scale service systems for practical business and societal purposes
  • Presents contributions from cross-disciplines and multiple angles
  • Provides a wealth of key concepts in the development of service science advancement
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Introduction of Service Systems Implementation

    • Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer, Vikas Krishna
    Pages 1-8
  3. A Framework for the Design of Service Systems

    • Yao-Hua Tan, Wout Hofman, Jaap Gordijn, Joris Hulstijn
    Pages 51-74
  4. Surviving Nuclear Winter Towards a Service-Led Business

    • Michael Rocha, Timothy Chou
    Pages 75-88
  5. An Assessment Tool for Establishing Infrastructure as a Service Capability Maturity

    • Justin Nieuwerth, Marco Spruit, Danny Zijlstra
    Pages 133-144
  6. Customer–Provider Strategic Alignment: A Maturity Model

    • Jerry Luftman, Carol V. Brown, S. Balaji
    Pages 145-163
  7. CIO in a Service Economy

    • Paul G. Sorenson
    Pages 165-181
  8. Service Productivity How to Measure and Improve It?

    • Erik den Hartigh, Marc Zegveld
    Pages 183-198
  9. Value Co-creation from the Consumer Perspective

    • Steve Baron, Gary Warnaby
    Pages 199-210
  10. Succeeding Through Service Innovation: Consumer Directed Care in the Aged Care Sector

    • Linda Wilkins, Carmel Laragy, Hossein S. Zadeh
    Pages 223-236
  11. An Integrated View of Service Innovation in Service Networks

    • Renu Agarwal, Willem Selen
    Pages 253-273
  12. A Service Systems Perspective of E-Government Development

    • Chee Wei Phang, Atreyi Kankanhalli
    Pages 275-288
  13. Predictive Systems for Customer Interactions

    • Ravi Vijayaraghavan, Sam Albert, Vinod Kumar Singh, Pallipuram V. Kannan
    Pages 289-307

About this book

Service Systems Implementation provides the latest applications and practices aimed at improving the key performance indicators of service systems, especially those related to service quality, service productivity, regulatory compliance, and sustainable service innovation. The book presents action-oriented, application-oriented, design science-oriented (artifacts building: constructs, models, methods and instantiations) and case study-oriented research with actionable results by illustrating techniques that can be employed in large scale, real world examples. The case studies will help visualize service systems along the four key dimensions of people, information, technology and value propositions which can help enable better integration between them towards higher value propositions.

The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, examine a wide range of substantive issues and implementations related to service science in various industries. These contributions also showcase the application of an array of research methods, including surveys, experiments, design science, case studies and frameworks, providing the reader with insights and guidelines to assist in building their own service systems, and thus, moving toward a more favorable service customer and provider experience.

Service Systems Implementation, along with its companion text, The Science of Service Systems, is designed to present multidisciplinary and multisectoral perspectives on the nature of service systems, on research and practice in service, and on the future directions to advance service science. These two volumes compose a collection of articles from those involved in the emerging area known as service science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, USA

    Haluk Demirkan

  • IBM Research - Almaden, San Jose, USA

    James C. Spohrer

  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA

    Vikas Krishna

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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