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Service design

Individual course

Max amount of FITech students: 60 adult learners

In this course, students will understand how to design services based on data, information and human expertise streams. Furthermore, the student will learn principles, processes and tools to design services for customers. The course develops operational operation, critical and analytical thinking skills. The student will also understand the principles of servitization and other related models for manufacturing.

The content and weighting for the course has an industry-wide approach based on practical application of the concepts. The overall concept of service design is also related to the impact factor of ethical behavior, professional standards and norms in both manufacturing and service industry to enhance customer experience and improve customer satisfaction in bundled product – service delivering as well as an added value in additional revenue stream for firms.

Course contents

  • Service design
  • Customer driven services
  • Tools to design services
  • Principles of design
  • Service dominant logic
  • Data, information and expertise based services

Completion methods

This is an online course. Completion of the course requires 5 individual module assignments as well as a practical team assignment. Each module has specific related reading material as well as some videos to compliment the set of articles.

More information in the University of Vaasa study guide.

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Responsible teacher

University of Vaasa
Emmanuel Ndzibah

Further information about the courses and studying

University of Vaasa
FITech contact person Vaasa

Contact person for applications

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Fanny Qvickström, Student services specialist
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Topics:
Digitalisation,
Leadership
Course code:
ISAN3050
Study credits:
5 ECTS
Price:
0 €
Course level:
Teaching period:
13.1.–3.3.2025
Application start date:
13.11.2024
Application deadline:
30.12.2024
Host university:
University of Vaasa
Who can apply:
Adult learner
Teaching method:
Online
Teaching language:
English
General prerequisites:
Students are expected to be familiar with data analytics.
Course suitable for:
IT service managers, enterprise architects, IT general managers, system developers.
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