25/02/2019
CSI with partners’ study tour to Silicon Valley 11th to 16th February
After eight years researching service innovation in Center for Service Innovation (CSI), it was time to benchmark our insights in an international arena. 16 CSI-partners signed up for an amazing study tour which included some of the most stimulating organizations and individuals “in the Valley”. Meetings and lectures reflected CSI’s research agenda: business model innovation, organizational innovation, and service innovation including service design thinking. The topics took us to stimulating meetings, talks, and conversations with faculty members at Stanford d.school and business school, UC Berkeley and Mercer, Nordic Innovation House, Accenture Lab, IBM Research Lab, and Idean/CapGemini. The learning points where numerous and to maximize learning, the participants compared notes every afternoon. As homework assignment, the participants’ were asked to write a 300-words essay reflecting individual learning points to be shared later.