1. Service Science The Elephant and the Blind Men, Whos Who Farhad Shafti – Umit Bititci – Robert Van Der Meer University of Strathclyde

2. Service science is just___________ OR/IE MS CS/AI Multiagent Systems Economics & Law Game Theory MIS Anthropology & Psychology Organization Theory Service System

3. Jal ā l ad-D ī n Mu ammad R ū m ī

4. Strathclyde Service Science Workshop – 9 th June 2008

5. 3 Rumi Metaphoric Stories Questions/Research Agendas for Service Science (output of the Strathclyde Service Science Workshop)

6. Service science is just___________ OR/IE MS CS/AI Multiagent Systems Economics & Law Game Theory MIS Anthropology & Psychology Organization Theory Service System

7. What is it? Strathclyde Service Science Workshop – 9 th June 2008

9. http://www.ibm.com/university/ssme

11. By far the largest and best-established academic literature in service has emerged from service marketing. While the engineering/systems/operations viewpoint is a valuable one, and is an integral part of what SSME should be, its present dominance in the discussion threatens to make SSME much narrower than it ought to be. Rust, 2006 Service quality cannot be measured by low variability of service output; it is a personal affair, a matter of psychology. If this is perceived and knowledge of it pursued then Service Science has a far better chance of improving the quality and productivity of service provision Chase, 2006

12. Service (the whole) is just ___________ Service Science Service (the whole) ? ? ? ? ?

13. Perhaps more emphasis on the core concept rather than titles and definitions? Fore instance: Core concept is Collaboration

14. There is a new discipline It is called Service/s Science/s It means … It calls for collaboration We need to collaborate This means we should do the following …… This calls for a new discipline Any suggestions for the title? Current Perception of Audience What I think was intended

15. The Story of the Four Travellers

16. I want GRAPES No, ANGUR! Only UZUM or I will break your neck I hate grapes, I want ENAB

17. How to collaborate? Strathclyde Service Science Workshop – 9 th June 2008

18. Barriers to adoption in academia Discipline specific funding Greater development in certain fields Inflexible existing processes Vertically organised departments Discipline specific terminology Adapted from Davies 2008, Glushko 2008, Bitner 2006

19. ENGINEERINGSOCIAL SCIENCEBUSINESS …..

20. ENGINEERINGSOCIAL SCIENCEBUSINESS ….. SSME:

21. The Story of the Tattoo

22. AAARGH NOOOOO MAMMA!

23. T-Shaped People? Strathclyde Service Science Workshop – 9 th June 2008

25. 100% Success 98% Success? Some times only a full success is the real success!

31. Higher Education Work Experience ?

32. What makes this even more complicated SSME? COLLABORATION T-SHAPED PEOPLE

33. "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck

34. If each had a candle, all differences would have been resolved! The Rumi (Persian) version of the story Elephant and the dark room

35. Any questions? Please ask Jim