SSME Doctoral Symposium 19th Sept 2008
The SSME Doctoral Symposium seeks to bring together PhD students working on topics in service science, management and engineering and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research with researchers and practitioners in the SSME community. More information about the event. To register, click here for online registration form.
Download SSME_Sept_19th.pdf [281KB]

Establishing SSME as a new academic discipline: Thought Leadership Workshop 17-18th Sept 2008
This two day workshop provides an opportunity to connect with leading researchers and practitioners, and to contribute to the development of a new academic discipline.  More information about the event. To register,  click here for online registration form.
Download SSME_Sept_17_18th.pdf [276KB]

Knowledge Intensive Service Activities - NEW Research Project

Manchester University Institute of Innovation Research together with UNU-MERIT and TNO are currently conducting research on future prospects for innovation and skill requirements in the European Service Economy, with particular focus on Knowledge Intensive Service Activities (KISA). Visit the KISA website for more information.  Please also visit the KISA Online Survey and give your views on this important area.

The Challenge of Services in the 21st Century: Opportunities for Education and Business 1st July 2008

The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of the need for educators to respond to the challenge of growing services economy and to stimulate business to become involved in the development and delivery of curricula. more information about the event. 
Presentations available to  download:

• The Challenge of Services in the 21st Century - Opportunities for Education and Business by Kelvin Bishop, IBM NE Europe
• Services Sciences Education an HPL perspective by Chris Tofts, HP Laboratories Bristol
• SSME workshop report prepared by Nick Yip, Doctoral student, Centre for Service Research, University of Exeter

Cambridge Service Science, Management and Engineering Symposium 14-15 July 2007
This symposium brought together a small group of leading international academics and senior industrialists in an open and interactive forum. The symposium was chaired by Dr Jim Spohrer of IBM and Professor Mike Gregory of the University of Cambridge. Professor Macaulay represented SSMEnetUK at the symposium.

Download the discussion paper " Succeeding through Service Innovation: Developing a Service Perspective on Economic Growth and Prosperity " [399KB]

Further information about the Cambridge SSME Symposium can be found at www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ssme

Joint Meeting with SOSoRNET: February 28th 2007
This joint meeting was hosted by Nicolas Gold, Director, Service-Oriented Software Engineering Network (SOSoRNet) sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk at King's College, London, and was attended by SSMEnetUK network founding members and SOSoRNET members.
Download SosornetNewsletter_1.pdf [326KB]

SSME at Manchester
The SSME network was initiated by Dr. Liping Zhao of the School of Computer Science at Manchester and Professor Linda A Macaulay from Manchester Business School. The document below provides a brief description of activities leading up to the formation of the network.
Download SSME_at_Manchesterv2.pdf [84KB]