A global alliance of leading companies and universities established to develop new understanding and approaches to complex service systems
Cambridge

Who We Are

The Cambridge Service Alliance was founded in September 2010, bringing together the University of Cambridge's expertise in service-science research, together with IBM and BAE Systems, to research new ways to provide, implement and employ complex service systems. In 2011 the Alliance was joined by Caterpillar Inc. as an industrial partner. The University of Cambridge is recognised as having some of the leading academics in this field, based at both the Cambridge Judge Business School and the Institute for Manufacturing.

The Alliance is guided by an international group of academics who form the Academic Advisory Board.   The Chairman of this board is Professor Duncan McFarlane.

Academic Advisory Board:

Name

Institution

Country

Area of expertise

Professor Janet McColl-Kennedy 

University of Queensland

Australia

Social Science

Professor Morris Cohen 

Wharton

USA

Performance based logistics

Professor Michael Cusumano 

MIT

USA

Software and software as a service

Professor Akira Kamoshida

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

Service management

Professor Duncan McFarlane

Cambridge

UK

Service engineering and support

Professor Kathrin Moeslein

University of Nürenberg

Germany

Service information systems

Professor Irene Ng

University of Warwick

UK

Service marketing

Professor Scott Sampson

Brigham Young University

USA

Service operations management

Professor Virpi Tuunainen

Aalto University

Finland

Service management

Professor Bart van Looy

University of Leuven

Belgium

Service management and economics

Professor Chris Voss

London Business School

UK

Service operations management