Service Science : The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management

**Features coverage of the service systems lifecycle, including service marketing, engineering, delivery, quality control, management, and sustainment** Featuring an innovative and holistic approach, __Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management__ provides a new perspective of service research and practice. The book presents a practical approach to the service systems lifecycle framework, which aids in understanding and capturing market trends; analyzing the design and engineering of service products and delivery networks; executing service operations; and controlling and managing the service lifecycles for competitive advantage. Utilizing a combined theoretical and practical approach to discuss service science, __Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management__ also features: * Case studies to illustrate how the presented theories and design principles are applied in practice to the definitions of fundamental service laws, including service interaction and socio-technical natures * Computational thinking and system modeling such as abstraction, digitalization, holistic perspectives, and analytics * Plentiful examples of service organizations such as automobile after-sale services, global project management networks, and express delivery services * An interdisciplinary emphasis that includes integrated approaches from the fields of mathematics, engineering, industrial engineering, business, operations research, and management science * A detailed analysis of the key concepts and body of knowledge for readers to master the foundations of service management __Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management__ is an ideal reference for practitioners in the contemporary service engineering and management field as well as researchers in applied mathematics, statistics, business/management science, operations research, industrial engineering, and economics. The book is also appropriate as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses in industrial engineering, operations research, and management science as well as MBA students studying service management. Features coverage of the service systems lifecycle, including service marketing, engineering, delivery, quality control, management, and sustainment Featuring an innovative and holistic approach, Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management provides a new perspective of service research and practice. The book presents a practical approach to the service systems lifecycle framework, which aids in understanding and capturing market trends; analyzing the design and engineering of service products and delivery networks; executing service operations; and controlling and managing the service lifecycles for competitive advantage. Utilizing a combined theoretical and practical approach to discuss service science, Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management features: Case studies to illustrate how the presented theories and design principles are applied in practice to the definitions of fundamental service laws, including service interaction and socio-technical natures Computational thinking and system modeling such as abstraction, digitalization, holistic perspectives, and analytics Plentiful examples of service organizations such as education services, global project management networks, and express delivery services An interdisciplinary emphasis that includes integrated approaches from the fields of mathematics, engineering, industrial engineering, business, operations research, and management science A detailed analysis of the key concepts and body of knowledge for readers to master the foundations of service management Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management is an ideal reference for practitioners in the contemporary service engineering and management field as well as researchers in applied mathematics, statistics, business/management science, operations research, industrial engineering, and economics. The book is also appropriate as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses in industrial engineering, operations research, and management science as well as MBA students studying service management. "By relying on the recent development of service science, this book focuses on the science of implementing a service system throughout its lifecycle, spanning from service marketing, engineering, delivery, quality control, management, to further improvement. The author utilizes a combined theoretical and practical approach to discuss the field of service science. Driven by today's new business environment, including advanced computing and telecommunications, accelerated business globalization, increased automation, and highly on-demand and competitive innovations, emphasis on the service sector has evolved to sources of innovations, collaboration, and value co-creation to optimally and cost-effectively meet the needs of end users, i.e. satisfaction, success, and profitability. Leading and competitive services enabled by service systems are all remarkably delineated by people-centric, information-driven, e-oriented, and satisfaction/success-focused characteristics. Compared to the mature knowledge of goods-producing business practices, service science is developing innovative, new constructs for mathematical modeling, process design, marketing, resource-revenue-risk management, and strategy. The book contains six parts: the evolution of services; service systems physics; market and service design; engineering and operations; delivery and service quality; and sustainment and improvement. By eliminating theoretical dependencies of each part, the book can also be tailored for students with different backgrounds and expectations. As opposed to typical course books where problems and exercises are used to help readers digest covered subjects, this book heavily relies on case studies to show how the presented theories and design principles are applied in practice, making it more suitable for students and professionals to master the foundations of service management"-- Provided by publisher "As a reference and or self-study for academics, professionals, and researchers in applied mathematics, statistics, business/management science, operations research, industrial engineering, and economics; as a textbook for MBA students interested in understanding service management; appropriate as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students"-- Provided by publisher