A service is a client/provider interaction that creates and captures value for both participants. We use service in several aspects of our lives including business, government, education, health care, and religion. But what, exactly, are the best practices, principles, and theories of service? The actual study of service science is a relatively new field, but one that can open the door to a better understanding of this essential part of our lives. In this invaluable guide, Harry Katzan, Jr., director of the Service Science Institute of Hilton Head, offers a concise, readable examination of how managers can use information about services to construct a better customer environment. Harry Katzan, Jr. believes that the characteristics of a service process determine its efficacy in solving real-world problems. He disseminates these characteristics and provides a clearer view to help managers pinpoint the exact issues they need to tackle. Informative chapters include: Service Concepts Service Systems Information Services Service Management Service Business With a comprehensive bibliography, detailed footnotes, and a highly engaging writing style, A Manager's Guide to Service Science is perfect for the professional and the layman alike. Discover how you can put information about services to work for you

If you want to have the competitive edge in your personal and professional life, then it's imperative to understand service science. Service in itself can be described as a client/provider interaction that creates and captures value, while a service system is defined as a structure of people and technology that adapts to the changing value of knowledge in the system. Combined, these two concepts form service science. Harry Katzan, Jr., director of the Service Science Institute of Hilton Head, takes a closer look at this newly emerging scientific field for academics and practitioners alike in Service Science. With an easy-to-understand format, Harry Katzan, Jr. offers a comprehensive introduction to service science for people in business, education, and government. Useful as a textbook and a professional guide, this innovative study contains eight chapters that each end with a comprehensive summary, a list of key words, questions, and additional selected readings. In addition, Harry Katzan, Jr. provides concrete examples and in-depth discussion on such timely topics as: -Service concepts -Service systems -Information services -Service management -Service business -Service technology Service science has been touted as the up-and-coming discipline for the twenty-first century. Learn more about this exciting field and change how you think and perceive your world with Service Science