Service Strategy, Operations & Productivity

Co-track chairs

Ingo Karpen

Karlstad University

Sweden

Rui Soucasaux Sousa

Católica Porto Business School

Portugal

Nancy V. Wünderlich

Berlin Technical University

Germany

Indicative Topics

  • Creating service strategies and designs
  • Consumer-centric and consumer-driven strategies
  • The role of employees in crafting service strategies
  • Servitization of manufacturing
  • Bridging service operations and service marketing
  • Crossing boundaries: from internal to external marketing
  • Understanding and managing service productivity
  • The role of digital technologies in service strategy, productivity and operations
  • Relationship between service operations, productivity and sustainability (environmental, social, economic)
  • Managing employee and customer productivity in technology-enabled services
  • The gig economy and on-demand services
  • The role of service design in shaping service strategy, operations, and productivity