The 3rd Annual SID Seminar-Theme: Tools for Creating a Service Culture

30.03.2010

April 16, at 8.30-18 Laurea Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland As companies are shifting their focus to services, creating and maintaining values that sustain a service-oriented culture becomes very important. The seminar aims to give tools for implementing and maintaining a service culture throughout the whole organization - be it a product-oriented focused company shifting its focus to services or a service company aiming to sustain a service focus as it grows and changes. http://servicedesign.laurea.fi/index.html

08.30 Morning coffee

09.00 SID in service management & marketing framework
Tore Strandvik, Professor, Hanken School of Economics. Chair of Laurea SID Advisory Board


09.30

Service culture makes a great brand
Lisa Sounio, Managing Director, Sonay Ltd.


10.00

Building service culture in global organization - case Accenture
Mikko Makkonen, Senior Executive, Accenture Finland Ltd.


10.30 Coffee and refreshments

11.00 New approach to service management tools
Jaana Komulainen, Managing Director, Seprima Oy

11.25 New leadership culture in service organizations
Esko Kilpi, Esko Kilpi Oy

11.50 Parallel session brief
Short introduction of the interactive parallel sessions

12.00

Lunch
Poster exhibition


13.30 Interactive parallel sessions
Real life business cases/challenges on implementing service culture in organizations

Jari Valtanen, Rocla Ltd. Shifting to service culture in an B-to-B environment

Terhi Nikulainen, Director, Entresse Library: Co-creation of new services in the public sector

15.00 Coffee and refreshments

15.30 Panel wrap-up of parallel sessions, Chris Evatt, Leadership Consultant, Laurea SID Advisory Board

16.00 The difficult swift into service economies: the case of Allianz
Markku Wilenius, Professor, Senior Vice President, Allianz Group

16.30 Inconvenience Stores: A look at service culture in Finland
Phillip Schwarzmann, Nokia, Editor-in-Chief of Nokia Conversations, Communication Manager

Wrap-up of the day
Chris Evatt


17-18

Wrap-up of the day: Wine and cheese in the main lobby
Poster exhibition

Please note that the seminar program is subject to change