Service in a Time of Rapid Change: Reaching a Turning Point – Reset or Adjust

Written by Elizabeth Farquhar for the Center for Services Leadership In 2019, author and lecturer Stan Phelps logged 155,000 miles on Delta, doing as many as four presentations a week, all in different cities. But in early March, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down conventions and business meetings along with the rest of the world, and …

Service in a Time of Rapid Change: Respond from the Heart – Generosity

– Written by Elizabeth Farquhar, Writer, Editor for the Center for Services Leadership One afternoon recently, marketing professor Leonard Berry paused in the middle of grading final papers and exams to describe our current frightening landscape: one million-plus COVID-19 cases, more than 60,000 deaths, unemployment growing to near-depression levels, and businesses shutting down—some never to …

ServiceFriday: California Conundrum – Wildfire’s Impact on Service Delivery

 – Written by Jack Lechich for the Center for Services Leadership (Jack is from Stockton, California) Despite the number of wildfires decreasing from their peak in 1980, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue stated in September 2017 that the U.S. was spending more than $2 billion to combat fires. According to the U.S. Department of …

Interview with Dr. Joy Field, Author of Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value

Click Here to Listen to the Audio Podcast with Dr. Joy Field Transcript: Today we’re speaking with Dr. Joy Field, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Boston College and a member of the Center for Services Leadership Faculty Network. The second edition of Dr. Field’s book, Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value, was published this …