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2016/2017  KAN-CSSMO1607U  Managing (Digital Mode) Service Delivery

English Title
Managing (Digital Mode) Service Delivery

Course information

Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Fourth Quarter, Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc of Social Science
Course coordinator
  • Kim Normann Andersen - Department of IT Management (ITM)
Main academic disciplines
  • Information technology
  • Innovation
  • Service management
Last updated on 15-12-2016
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • Account for how the use of small as well as big data can enhance mutual value creation
  • analyse and assess how an organization may benefit from the automation of service delivery processes
  • Discuss how commoditisation challenges the business model of a a service organization, including risks of being exposed to the service commoditization trap
Examination
Managing (Digital Mode) Service Delivery:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Written sit-in exam
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration 4 hours
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer
Aids allowed to bring to the exam Open book: all written and electronic aids, including internet access:
  • Written sit-in-exam on CBS' computers
  • Books and compendia brought by the examinee
  • Notes in paper format brought by the examinee
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take examination will be held as an oral examination instead.
Course content and structure

Alongside the marketing course, this course focuses on the service delivery process – in a digital perspective – in a digital mode, using employees and/or combinations of the earlier mentioned elementsf, and to benefit from internationalization of the organisation. Providing customers and other stakeholders with more ways in which to interact with the service organization Letting customers take control, and understand customer emotions – progressing from the customer journey perspective.  Introducing the sustainable service organization as a new perspective on service delivery. Key elements are:

 

  • E-commerce, automatization and digitalization in services

  • How to benefit from the ”internet of things” , Big Data and Open Data

  • Doing it alone, or in a shared delivery concept?

  • Adding value to the customer

  • The service commoditization trap

  • Service delivery IT or strategy based.

 

Teaching methods
Lectures, small group discussions/exercises, and case studies
Student workload
Course activities (including preparation) 170 hours
Exam (including exam preparation) 36 hours
Last updated on 15-12-2016