Services Science, Engineering and Management Conference, at IBM Palisades, October 6-7
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Steve Vargo & Bob Lusch, University of Hawaii and University of Arizona, "The Service-Dominant Mindset"
Fish or wheat:
- Exchanges: competences for trading proteins for trading carbohydrates
Even in agriculture, work is done by services
- Computers: informed matter with our intelligence
- Service-dominant logic: focus on processes
- Processes have no start and no end
What is a service?
- Application of competencies, for the benefit of another entity
- Sometimes done with goods, which we call appliances
What firms produce are not outputs, but instead inputs into another system
- With scientific management, we treat humans like operant inputs, they're operand resources that do things
- We sleep, work, and co-create
- Consuming not the right idea, as they don't destroy, they co-create
- Consumers assemble resources to co-produce
We've been on this journey from a goods-dominant logic to a transition, to service-dominant logic
- Goods --> Services --> Service
- Units of input, whereas service implies process
- Service science, not services science
- Products --> Offerings --> Experiences
- Features / attributes --> Benefits --> Solutions
- Equlibrium systems --> Dynamic systems --> Complex adaptive systems (learning and evolving)
- Supply chain --> Value chain --> Value-creation networks or constellations
Big meta-questions (that Karl, from the Kauffman foundation brought up)
- What is the theory of the firm? What do firms do?
- From producing outputs --> producing inputs
- New institutions will evolve not just it's good for one firm, but when it's good for the whole system
- Democracies work, because they're co-creation
- How do firms do this?
- Why do firms do this?
- What scientific concepts and tools are dominant?
- Towards discovery
- (Could also ask what consumers do)
[Questions]
Value. Definition of services, where there isn't a transfer of ownership. Do have trouble when come to consumer goods. Distinction between durable goods and consumable goods.
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