Category: SID events

  • Are you a Designer?

    How many of you consider yourself as a designer? This was one of the first questions we were asked in our service design workshop at Lahti University of Applied Sciences on October 9th 2012. Probably you can guess the answer, roughly half of the participants raised their hands. Then it was time to wake people a…

  • Competing with Business Models

    “If you are not thinking about business models, you are an irresponsible leader.” Co-author of Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) Alexander Osterwalder challenged Finnish business experts in Business Model Innovation Seminar in Helsinki 6th of November 2012.  He stated business models makes organizations thrive or die. “We will have more industries where companies…

  • Service Design Breakfast

    What is the Service Design Breakfast? The Service Design Breakfast is a series of open talks by leading service design experts. All the Finnish service design community is welcome and the main communication channels for the talks are blogs from the Finnish Universities and Facebook community page. To attend each talk you must to subscribe…

  • ICSSME2012 conference greetings!

    by Dr. Päivi J Tossavainen Regards from the ICSSME2012 conference. ICSSME2012 is a newcomer conference of service research field. Organized by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), the conference took place October 8-9 in Dubai, UAE. There were about 100 participants in the event from countries around the world. The two days provided…

  • The Finnish Service Alliance: a new collaborative community for service scholars and practitioners

    The constitutive meeting of The Finnish Service Alliance (FSA) brought 180 service researchers and business professionals from all over Finland to Espoo today. The FSA is a new forum for service scholars and professionals to share research contributions and to discuss about the opportunities and challenges within the service field. The mission of the FSA…

  • Experiences from organizing the first German SDN Service Design Conference

    by Melanie Wendland, Master Programme SID 2011 Conference Context As Group Design Lead of Fjord’s Service Design Academy, I was involved in organizing the first German version of the Service Design Network conference. Together with Thomas Schönweitz, the leader of the German chapter, Nancy Birkhölzer, Group Director of the Service Design Academy, was co-chairing the…

  • Chapter benchmarking

    A trip to the German SDN Chapter conference in Cologne showed that a national chapter is a great forum to share and gain service design knowledge close to home. It also brings local service design people together to share service experiences and ideas  from business, academy and the design world.  I had a special interest…